Industry insiders project the year 2013 may feature a new round of shuffle in the energy-saving fixture section. When it comes to manufacturers specializing in fluorescent lights, however, the impending challenge of reducing the mercury could possibly stay for a couple of years, and special attention has been given to the future of this segment.

Lin Boqiang, director of China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, believes that as far as energy efficiency is concerned, widespread adoption of LED will definitely deliver incredible energy-saving benefit. Therefore, the LED industry is considered to be robust among new energy resources and have great market potential, and is likely to become a mainstream in lighting consumption.
 
“However, LED lighting industry in China is still in its infancy and it takes some time to boost the market share.” Lin Boqiang said that energy-saving industry in China still needs to clear a lot of hurdles in its course of development. Many companies have being haunted by the problems of costs and profits either when reducing mercury contained in fluorescent lights or promoting new energy efficient products, which also accounts for ongoing manufacturing of so many energy-consuming products.