China as the world's largest steel producing countries and the world's most populous country, has the advantages of manufacturing hardware products and labor costs, in recent years, China has maintained a steady growth in the export of hardware products, China has become one of the world's major exporter of hardware products, is expected to remain in the future annual export growth of 10-15%.

2013-2017 China National Hardware industry development prospects and investment strategy planning analysis report shows that in 2010, China's hardware industry rapid recovery of the full year. Overall, the hardware products industry is running well, the growth momentum of internal and external sales, import and export growth, rapid increase in various economic indicators, the industry as a whole to resume to the level of the financial crisis.

According to statistics, in 2010, China's hardware industry scale enterprises 8811, the total industrial output value of 635234000000 yuan, an increase of 29.43%. Mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei 5 provinces, the total industrial output value of 474128000000 yuan, accounting for 74.64% of the total output value of the whole industry.

Hardware products industry to improve people's living standards, improve the quality of life, and constantly meet the growing needs of people's material and cultural life needs and the growing domestic and international market demand and absorb labor employment, to accelerate the pace of industrialization, urbanization, and so have played a positive role in promoting. In the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, it is important to shoulder the important historical mission. "Twelfth Five Year" period, China will change the hardware industry development mode, in order to save resources, reduce consumption, protect environment, improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth, continue to maintain the industry orderly, healthy, rapid growth, and strive to China by the hardware manufacturing power to the metal manufacturing power change. The industry's total output value and industrial added value of the industry's total output value and industrial added value was about 10-12% in the period of the twelfth five year plan, 2015 will be more than the industry output value in 2010.