After more than 30 years of development, China’s hardware industry has become more mature and has occupied an important position in the world market. At present, China’s output of many hardware products ranks first in the world, such as lighters, zippers, wrenches, and pliers. There are very good sales records abroad. At the same time, after years of development, the characteristics of the development of China's hardware industry clusters have gradually emerged.
　　China is one of the world's largest hardware producing countries. It has become a big metal processing country and a big exporter in the world, with a vast market and consumption potential. With the development of society and economy, the hardware industry has a distinct feature under the new situation.
　　China's hardware industry cluster development is mainly divided into three types. First, the long-established and typical representative is Daxin Town of Zhangjiagang City. It is an industrial satellite town that started earlier in the rural areas in southern Jiangsu. It started with hardware and relied on five blondes and has a history of more than 70 years. The second type is industrial agglomeration, typically represented by Yongkang City, Zhejiang Province, a large-scale hardware industry gathering area with an annual sales income of over one hundred billion yuan, which has become a pillar industry in the region. Third, the market development type, typical representative is Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, after years of development, formed a lock, gas appliances as a leader, the upstream and downstream products and various accessories complete industry group. These three types of industrial clusters have their advantages and characteristics. They have not only made great contributions to the local areas, but also have been an important pillar to support the development and expansion of China's hardware industry and to go abroad.
　　The advantages of industrial clusters are very obvious. It can effectively solve the problems of high management costs and agency costs, and avoid the problems of excessive transaction costs and high logistics costs caused by long-distance transactions. Industrial clusters are conducive to the deep division of labor among enterprises, and the deep division of labor is conducive to specialization and refinement, which is conducive to improving efficiency and technological innovation. At the same time, it is beneficial to attract investment, but also conducive to saving the cost of the transaction, but also easier to stimulate awareness of competition.