Hardware: Traditional hardware products, also known as "small hardware". Refers to the five metals of gold, silver, copper, iron and tin. After manual processing, it can be made into art or metal devices such as knives and swords. Hardware in modern society is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily hardware, construction hardware and security supplies. Most hardware products are not final consumer goods.

The hardware industry is developing very fast. The most concentrated domestic markets in the traditional hardware industry are mainly concentrated in mechanical hardware, architectural hardware, decorative hardware, and daily hardware. The trend of industrial concentration in the hardware industry is also obvious. The domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong and other economically developed provinces and regions. The products of traditional hardware enterprises are relatively simple. Many enterprises only provide supporting and accessories for other manufacturing enterprises. They are relatively dependent on manufacturing enterprises and respond slowly to market demand. Traditional hardware enterprises do not pay attention to the research and development of new products and the extension of the market, which results in the lack of sustainable competitiveness of enterprises. In the face of increasingly specialized market demand and increasingly fierce competition, many hardware enterprises that have developed rapidly in the early stage feel powerless to follow.

How to make enterprises have sustainable competitiveness is a topic that many hardware enterprises are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" has gradually been mentioned by businessmen and experts in the hardware industry on various occasions, and the voice of integrating the hardware-manufacturing industry is getting louder and louder. The hardware industry is mainly through the change of the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembly to become products. As long as the industrial field where the assembly of metal parts is the main process, it belongs to the category of the hardware industry. If we expand the concept of hardware manufacturing to the entire manufacturing field, and think about the development of the hardware industry from the perspective of manufacturing, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" comes into being: from the mining and processing of metal materials to the manufacture of primary metal products From the manufacture of general production equipment to the manufacture of special equipment for various industries in the national economy, the production activities in this entire industrial chain can be called "big hardware manufacturing".