The rapidly growing Chinese hardware industry has gained increasing status and influence in the world, and China is making a leap from a major hardware country to a hardware country with unlimited vitality, from "hardware" to "big industry". China is becoming a global hardware manufacturing center. The hardware industry is both traditional and new and modern. Hardware products are widely used. In the past, people used to call it hardware, such as nails, scissors, wrenches, and knives. These small hardware products have now developed into major industries with world influence.

After more than 30 years of development, China's hardware industry has become more mature and also occupies an important position in the world market. At present, China's production of many hardware products ranks first in the world, such as lighters, zippers, wrenches and pliers. Both have a good sales record abroad, at the same time, after many years of development, the characteristics of the development of China's hardware industry cluster gradually highlighted.

China is one of the world's major hardware production countries, has become a world hardware processing countries and export countries, with a vast market and consumption potential, with the development of the social economy, hardware industry in the new situation, cluster development also has obvious characteristics.

China's hardware industry cluster development is mainly divided into three types

First, the long-established and typical representative is Daxin Town of Zhangjiagang City, an industrial satellite town that started earlier in township enterprises in southern Jiangsu Province. It started with hardware and started with hardware. It has a production history of more than 70 years.

The second is the industrial cluster type. The typical representative is Yongkang City, Zhejiang Province, a large hardware industry cluster with annual sales revenue of more than 100 billion yuan, which has become a local pillar industry.

The third is the market development type. The typical representative is Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. After many years of development, it has formed an industrial group with locks and gas tools as the leader, upstream and downstream products and various accessories. These three types of industrial clusters have their own advantages and characteristics. They not only make great contributions to the local area, but also support the development and expansion of China's hardware industry and the important pillars of going out of the country.

The advantages of industrial clusters are obvious. It can effectively solve the problem of high management costs and agency costs, and avoid the problem of high transaction costs and logistics costs caused by long-distance exchanges. Industrial clusters are conducive to the deep division of labor between enterprises, and the deep division of labor is conducive to specialization and refinement, which is conducive to improving efficiency and technological innovation. At the same time, it is also beneficial to attract investment, which is also conducive to saving transaction costs, and it is also easier to stimulate competition awareness.

Although the Chinese hardware industry has made great strides and has made great progress, after all, the industrial bottom is thin and there are many differences compared with advanced foreign companies. In high-end technology, independent intellectual property rights, brand awareness, modern enterprise management, logistics and other aspects, we need to strengthen and improve.