LED Financial Subsidy Tender Reopens “Sprinkling” or Doubles to 1 Billion

The three ministries and commissions of the Ministry of Finance recently issued an announcement again in response to the promotion bidding for LED product subsidies in 2012. In the previous February, the three ministries had issued announcements and public tenders, but they had not produced results. According to informed sources, the biggest reason for this re-tendering is the expansion of the scale, the total amount is expected to double to nearly 1 billion yuan, and the scale of the winning bid unit is also expected to expand to 30 to 50.

LED subsidy and tender expansion In February of this year, the Ministry of Finance and other three ministries issued an announcement that the “2012 financial subsidies promotion project for semiconductor lighting products” was officially launched, involving indoor lighting products LED downlights, reflective self-ballasted LED lights, and outdoor lighting products LED lights, LED tunnel lights four types of products. This is the first time that the Ministry of Finance has subsidized the promotion of LED products.

According to those who participated in bidding companies at the time, after the completion of product inspections and other formalities, LED subsidies for the first time were still pending due to the chaotic pricing of individual companies. On May 16, the State Council Executive Meeting decided to arrange 2.2 billion yuan to support the promotion of energy-saving lamps and LED lights through policies and measures to promote the consumption of energy-saving household appliances and other products, so that the originally estimated tender size could not meet the demand. Therefore, the three ministries decided to restart the new one. Round tender. According to informed sources, the total amount of tender subsidies after the expansion is expected to double to nearly 1 billion yuan.

It is reported that the subsidy product and form of the new round of tendering will remain unchanged, and a batch of LED product manufacturing enterprises and products will be selected through tendering and the supply price will be determined. The subsidy funds shall be indirectly subsidized, and shall be subsidized by the financial subsidy to the successful bidder. The subsidy shall be sold to the end-user by the bid-winning price of the bid-winning agreement minus the subsidy of the financial subsidy. The ultimate beneficiary is the end-user.

The announcement requires that the annual production capacity of the LED downlights and reflective self-ballasted LED lamps submitted by the bidders shall be no less than 200,000 baht, and the annual production capacity of LED street lamps and LED tunnel lights shall not be less than 30,000 baht. The registered capital shall not be less than 50 million yuan. According to sources from National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R&D and Industry Alliance, the process of re-tendering is expected to speed up, and companies that originally participated in the bid do not need to re-test; and after nearly 5 months of preparation, the number of products and companies that meet the qualification for bid invitation has been improved. increase. This means that more companies will participate in bidding, and the scale is expected to expand to 30 to 50.

A number of listed companies have participated in bidding According to the National Development and Reform Commission, since the implementation of the energy-saving lamp subsidies in 2007, more than 60 million energy-saving lamps have been promoted in the past year; in 2008, financial subsidies amounted to approximately 280 million yuan, directly stimulating social consumption by 650 million yuan. In addition, some local governments have formulated supporting subsidies on the basis of state subsidies, which further stimulated the rapid spread of energy-saving lamps.

Industrial Securities analyst Liu Liang pointed out that the promotion of LED financial subsidies to promote the project is expected to achieve the same effect, will drive the entire general lighting market including business, industry, home, including start. Compared with the “Ten Cities, Ten Thousand Miles” project that led to the development of the entire LED industry, general lighting is more market-oriented and larger. Driven by applications, especially indoor product applications, the entire LED industry chain, including chips and packages, is expected to benefit.

According to the statistics of the reporter, listed companies such as Sunshine Lighting, Qinshang Optoelectronics, National Star Optoelectronics, Hongli Optoelectronics, BDO Runda, Foshan Lighting and Zhouming Technology have all participated in the previous tender. Among them, Foshan Lighting and Sunshine Lighting have repeatedly won the national high-efficiency lighting product promotion project for energy-saving lamps. Foshan Lighting has previously announced that it has won the bid for the national high-efficiency lighting product promotion project for five consecutive years. In June 2011, the company announced that the number of actual successful bid winners after the bid for the promotion project was 7.798 million, and actually completed more than 7.86 million. Sunshine Lighting has also announced that it has won the bid for the promotion of efficient lighting products in 2012.

In addition, Hongli Optoelectronics has also increased its share of 80% of the company's shares in Guangzhou Yingying Gongyuan Energy Saving Technology Co., Ltd., aiming to share the "cake" of Guangdong LED promotion. According to the announcement, after the completion of the capital increase, Zhongying Gongyuan will have the "Guangdong Province's Implementation Plan for Promoting the Use of LED Lighting Products" to participate in bidding for the energy-saving service company, and can undertake the LED lighting project and other LED lighting projects in the public lighting field in Guangdong Province. It will help improve the market share of Hongli Opto LED lighting products.