A report on the state of the LED-based traffic light market in China has recently been published on Reports-research.com. The report indicates that the market for LED-based traffic lights in China still has significant room to grow in the future from demand in small and medium sized cities.
According to the report, China started the probation of LED traffic lights since 1999, the replacement of LED traffic lights was basically completed in the large Chinese cities by the end of 2008, and the future installation of LED traffic lights will mainly focus on medium-small sized cities.
Currently, Guangdong Province has started up its large-scaled replacement plan of LED street lamps, and the significant LED street lamp demonstration project has been under the way in the city of Dongguan. This province planned replaces a total of 100,000 street lamps in ten cities including Dongguan, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhaoqing and Zhongshan in the next two years.
The LED manufacturers such as NICHIA, TOYODO GOSEI, CREE, GELCORE, LUMILEDS and OSRAM are also the main LED technology developers, while the other manufacturers from Taiwan and China like Everlight, Epistar and OPTO-TECH relies on their patents. And in China, the LED industry is mainly distributed in the regions of YRD, PRD and Jiangxi Province, Fujian Province, and Bohai Bay.