China is gradually becoming a major global hardware processing and exporting country. According to statistics, the annual export of China's hardware industry is growing at a rate of around 8%. In 2000, the export value of hardware products exceeded 5 billion US dollars, ranking third on the list of light industry exports. From the perspective of industry characteristics, the hardware stamping parts industry has great potential. Both internationally and domestically, it is an industry with obvious traditional characteristics. Although the financial crisis in the past few years has had some impact on China's hardware exports, there has been an improvement since 1999. Export earnings increased from 2.67 billion US dollars in 1995 to 3.848 billion US dollars in 1999, an increase of 71.74%, with an average annual growth of 11.4%, and continued to grow thereafter.

The main body of China's hardware product export enterprises is private enterprises and private enterprises. At present, private enterprises and private enterprises account for about 70% of the total number of hardware production enterprises. Private enterprises are small in scale, flexible in operation mechanism, strong in innovation ability, and highly competitive, making them the main force for the future development of China's hardware industry. The changes in the international hardware market have also provided good opportunities for China's hardware product exports. The production of hardware products in China, Taiwan, China Province and Hong Kong is second only to developed countries in the world. Due to the rapid development of production technology and the impact of high labor costs, developed countries have shifted their low-end products to developing countries, producing only high value-added products. Hardware production in countries such as India, South Korea, and Vietnam has also developed rapidly in recent years, but China itself has greater mayoral/market potential than them, which is more conducive to expanding the hardware industry. With the deepening of market economy in Europe and America, the product categories of early professional hardware stores gradually enriched and developed into the DIY concept, enabling people to purchase tools and products needed for family life in hardware stores. Eventually, multinational hardware conglomerates with annual sales of tens of billions of dollars, such as OBI in the United States, became the mainstream of the international hardware marketing system.

At present, China has become the world's largest "construction site", with infrastructure, factories, and residential projects starting one at a time. The huge construction scale has formed a huge demand for tool hardware, building hardware, locks, and kitchen cabinet products. The Chinese market is one of the largest stages of competition among world hardware manufacturers. China is an important producer of hardware products in the world, with broad market and consumption potential. With its unique labor price advantage, the quality and price of Chinese hardware products and components are highly competitive in the international market. International famous hardware companies have turned their attention to China, shifting their production capacity to China, and accelerating the pace of purchasing OEM (genuine processing) high-quality products from China. The chairman of hardware associations in Australia, Denmark and other countries personally led a delegation to inspect the Chinese market. Spanley, a global hardware brand product supplier, plans to invest two-thirds of its annual purchase amount of $1.2 billion in Asia, especially China. Therefore, moving from selling a single product to selling multiple products, and then moving towards large chain groups, is an inevitable trend in the development of China's hardware marketing system.