Compared with functional lighting, the landscape lighting industry in China started late, and can be roughly divided into the budding stage before the reform and opening up, the initial stage beginning in the mid-1980s, the steady development stage between 1989 and 1999, and the rapid development stage since 21st century, and the fifth stages of leapfrog development marked by "Urban Lighting Management Regulations".

 

Before the reform and opening up, the main focus was on practical lighting. Only the iconic buildings in large cities had landscape lighting, such as Tiananmen Square in Beijing and the top ten buildings for the 10th anniversary of the National Day, the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building in Shanghai and the Southwest People’s Auditorium in Chongqing. And generally, the contour lighting is turned on only on commemorative days such as holidays.

 

Beginning in the mid-1980s, in 1989, Shanghai carried out the construction of a regional lighting project for the building complex on the Bund, and started the construction of the floodlighting of the "World Expo Building" and the Nanjing Road Neon Street Project, which became a national demonstration project. It has become a pioneer in the domestic landscape lighting industry, marking the beginning of the development of my country's landscape lighting engineering industry.

 

From 1989 to 1999, driven by the economic and cultural benefits of night scene lighting projects,as well as the shaping of the city’s image in Shanghai, Beijing and other cities, major cities in China such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen carried out "illuminating projects", "lighting projects", and  "Glorious Project", the landscape lighting engineering industry has made great progress and achieved brilliant results in just 10 years.

 

Entering the 21st century, with the rapid development of science and technology, the lighting engineering industry conforms to the trend of energy saving and environmental protection, and gradually applies high-tech lighting, energy-saving lighting and other technologies to lighting technology. At the same time, with the rapid development of electronic technology, optical fiber and light pipe technology, projection technology, holographic technology and their application in night scene lighting, the lamps used in city night scenes are more abundant, making China's landscape lighting engineering industry enter a stage of rapid development.

 

In 2010, the Ministry of Housing and construction issued the Urban Lighting Management Regulations for urban lighting management, which became a milestone in the legalization of urban lighting management in China. Since then, various urban landscape lighting plans and regulations have continued, and the landscape lighting industry has entered a policy-intensive period. The management system continues to mature.

Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the concepts of beautiful China, smart cities, green lighting, and night travel economy advocated and encouraged by the state have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The use of energy-saving, environmentally-friendly and efficient LED lamps and lasers, holography, projection, and intelligent control , Big data and other new-generation technologies, combining the cultural heritage and characteristics of the city according to local conditions, shaping the unique night scene culture of the city, and at the same time handle the functional lighting and landscape lighting, day and night scenes, overall and partial, light and shadow, light and dark, The relationship between white light and color light, tradition and innovation, lighting construction and energy conservation and environmental protection, investment and management, application of high-tech and conventional technology, planning and design, and project implementation have brought the landscape lighting engineering industry into a leapfrog development stage.

 

Both the market scale and the number of projects are growing, and the number of projects has exceeded 5000 With the promotion of local policies and the promotion of night tourism economy, the market scale of landscape lighting projects has been continuously increasing. my country has become the largest landscape lighting market. The landscape lighting market has grown from 41.57 billion yuan in 2013 to 79.61 billion yuan in 2017, with an average annual compound growth rate of 21.22% during 2018-2019. The scale continues to grow, and the scale of the industry in 2019 will reach approximately 10.47 billion Yuan.

 

According to the statistics of China Lighting web and China Investment Web, the bidding information of landscape lighting projects increased from 2,378 in 2015 to 4873 in 2018, showing an increasing trend year by year. In 2019, the number of industry projects is still growing, with the number of projects reaching about 5938.

 

East China has the highest number of bids, and commercial street landscape lighting accounts for most of the bids

In terms of regional distribution, East China still has the highest number of bids, followed by South China and Southwest China. Among them, the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Shandong in East China accounted for 64% of the total number of bids in the country. In addition to Jiangsu and Zhejiang are relatively strong, Guangdong has also entered the top three, becoming the three provinces with the largest number of landscape lighting bids.

 

From the perspective of landscape lighting types, according to incomplete statistics, among various types of landscape lighting investments, the investment in building landscape lighting is 1.960 billion yuan, accounting for 19.17% of the total investment; The investment of structures and special landscape elements is 908 million yuan, accounting for 8.88% of the total investment; the investment of the commercial pedestrian street is about 6.85 billion yuan, accounting for 67.00% of the total investment; the investment of the square is about It is 95.3 million yuan, accounting for 0.91% of the total investment; the investment of the park is about 410 million yuan, accounting for 4.01% of the total investment.