From: Chinese mechanical net at 16:47 on April 25, 2008
4 quarter of 2007 the market price of the connector go ping. 1 quarter of 2008, the price of general-purpose connector may be subject to erosion, but an exclusive and high-end price of the connector to be flat or even rose slightly.
Connector market in China over the past 5-year CAGR of 27.2% CAGR over the past 10 years as high as 42.7%, much higher than the world growth rate over the same period, is a leading global fast-growing market, the fourth largest connector. According to China's electronics information industry association predicted that during the Eleventh Five-Year, electricity productionwill remain 15% of the average annual growth rate, by 2010 the total output will reach 78 billion. Among them, the output connector and the market size will reach an average annual increase of 17% and 15% by 2010 production will reach the connector 46.8 billion, the market scale will reach 51.5 billion yuan.

Within the connector industry is not very balanced, high-end products and more concentrated in the military field, with multiple varieties, the characteristics of small volume, the use of flexible manufacturing technology, trial, production integration, higher gross margin. Simple type of low-end products, new product development is relatively backward, the same serious, intense competition, decreasing margins, internal connector companies focused in this area. According to China's electronics information industry associations rough estimation, the current high-end domestic market capacity connector of a total capacity of about 3.75 percent, about one billion yuan in sales. In the low-end market, the total capacity of more than 95% of capacity, more than 24.5 billion yuan in sales.