The country is experiencing rapid industrial development in electricity equipment and production. The additional installed capacity for power generation is growing by more than 8 per cent annually and is expected to reach 800 million kW by 2020. But per capita power consumption lags far behind that of developed countries. Because of the large space for related industrial development, there is significant market demand for high-pressure low-pressure appliances. Large market demand has also led to intense competition from domestic and foreign producers, with thousands of domestic low-pressure electrical equipment production plants alone.

Market demand has contributed to technological progress and development, with higher and more up-to-date demands on electricity systems as societies progress and the economy and technology develop. In particular, higher requirements are placed on the safety, automation, etc., of the main equipment to control the electrical system, the high-pressure electrical equipment set. There has been considerable progress in the production process, whether in product design, manufacturing or management. Our high-pressure switch cabinets have evolved to metal closed (covered, spaced and boxed) and low pressure is dominated by closed-out units. Various products such as high-pressure handcars, middle-placed devices, ring cabinets, F-C cabinets, box transformations and low-pressure drawers, and motor control centres have been listed in large numbers. The low-pressure electrical industry is ahead of the high-pressure industry in applying computer technology to product structures. Intelligence and networking of products and the availability of intelligent low-pressure circuit breakers, electric motor controllers, overload relays, distribution cabinets, etc.

With a marked acceleration in investment in new energy industries, high-technology industries, advanced equipment manufacturing and real estate development, there is an increased demand for the automation of industrial distribution and the intellectualization of civil distribution, and the market for low-pressure electrical equipment sets is promising. The market for the sale of high-pressure electrical products is mainly domestic. Currently, the vast majority of products produced by low-voltage appliances are purchased by low-voltage plant manufacturers and are then assembled into distribution screens, power distribution tanks, protection screens, control screens, etc., and sold to users as a complement to power generation equipment, distribution equipment, electrical transmission automatic control equipment, etc. Private-sector firms in China ' s high-pressure and low-pressure appliances are dominant, with annual output and sales revenues of more than 60 per cent of the industry, while foreign-owned enterprises generate about 30 per cent of the industry ' s annual production and sales revenues. In recent years, low-pressure electrical equipment sets have been widely used for power packages in modern industrial enterprises, new energy development and real estate construction in a variety of areas, and production and marketing are well advanced. As investment projects for grid construction continue to grow, and as the demand for railway electrification and urban orbital transport increases, the industry will also be open to wider markets.