PCB Technical - China PCB circuit development

China is the global electronic product manufacturing center and the world’s largest consumer market for electronic products. This provides the domestic PCB circuit industry with sufficient market depth. At the same time, the domestic PCB industry chain is complete, and the advantages of sufficient labor resources enable domestic PCB companies to continue Has a clear competitive advantage.

China is the most important PCB production base in the world. According to Prismark statistics, in 2017, the Asian region accounted for about 90% of the total output value of the global PCB industry, of which China accounted for more than 50% of the total output value of the global PCB industry. The domestic PCB industry has entered a stage of sustained and stable growth. In 2017, the output value of China's PCB industry reached 29.732 billion US dollars.

In 2017, the number of domestic PCB circuit industry companies was about 1,300, mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta and the Bohai Rim. The PCB output value of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta accounted for about 90% of the total output value of mainland China. At the same time, due to the influence of factors such as the continuous increase in labor costs and environmental protection requirements in coastal areas, the domestic PCB industry is gradually shifting to provinces and cities with better inland industrial conditions, such as Jiangxi Province.

PCB circuit development characteristics

The PCB circuit industry has major characteristics such as regionality, periodicity, and seasonality. In terms of regional aspects, due to the high level of economic development in the coastal areas of East and South China, and the relatively developed electronic information industry, the advantages of talents, economy, and industrial chain are more prominent. Therefore, industry companies in the above two regions continue to develop high-end products and high-end products. The development of value-added products.

In recent years, due to factors such as rising labor costs and stricter environmental protection policies, companies in the industry have also stepped up their efforts to expand production capacity in areas with better basic conditions in the central and western regions.

In terms of periodicity, the PCB industry has a wide range of downstream applications, covering consumer electronics, communication equipment, automotive electronics, medical electronics, industrial control equipment, smart security, clean energy, aerospace and military products, and other social and economic fields, so printed The circuit board industry is less affected by a single industry, and its periodicity is mainly manifested as fluctuations in the macroeconomic fluctuations.

In terms of seasonality, due to the comprehensive influence of factors such as holiday consumption and downstream customers’ advance stocking in response to peak consumption seasons, the production and sales scale of enterprises in the industry in the second half of the year is generally higher than that of the first half of the year, but the overall seasonal characteristics will not be too high. obvious.

In addition, the downstream application areas of the PCB circuit industry are also showing an expanding trend. The popularity of mobile phones such as smartphones has driven the increase in demand for FPC boards, and the development of high-end servers has promoted the continuous expansion of the market space for HDI boards. With the further development of science and technology, the downstream application areas of the PCB industry will continue to increase in the future.