In recent years, with the rapid development of the national economy, the demand for special cables has sharply increased. The demand for special cables in industries such as shipbuilding, railway, aircraft, aerospace, petroleum, chemical, metallurgical, and nuclear power has been increasing year by year. Due to the expansion of the entire market capacity, special cables have also ushered in good development opportunities: the annual demand for oil exploration and drilling platforms exceeds 15000 kilometers; The demand for high-speed rail exceeds 37300 kilometers, such as railway signal cables, ocean cables, automotive wires, mining cables, aviation cables, and other special cables, growing at a rate of tens of thousands of kilometers every year.

Compared with ordinary cables, the competition in the special cable industry is more orderly and has a broader prospect. Unlike conventional cables, special cables require special applications in specific situations, requiring high temperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, termite resistance, corrosion resistance, and even radiation resistance. In short, high technological content, new application fields, and high threshold are also conducive to the development and improvement of enterprises.

At present, the demand for special cables in China is growing at a rate of nearly 20% annually. The development of special cable enterprises is in the ascendant. On the one hand, the competition for ordinary cables is intensifying, and on the other hand, in the face of the new pattern of the cable market, how to seize opportunities and seize opportunities has become a new issue facing wire and cable enterprises.

The country advocates energy conservation, emission reduction, and green development, which also provides new development opportunities for special cables. For example, the construction of the national smart grid, from planning, demonstration to gradual implementation, every step cannot be separated from special cables. However, the large-scale transformation of urban and rural power grids, the application of high-voltage and ultra-high voltage cables, the construction of new energy power stations, and the special needs of other emerging fields have also injected vigorous development vitality into the special cable industry.

The continuous growth of domestic demand has brought huge market opportunities to the special cable industry, and the integration of the international market will bring opportunities to the special cable industry. With China's accession to the World Trade Organization and becoming the world's factory, the pace of domestic economic and global integration is gradually accelerating. The vision of special cable enterprises has also shifted from domestic to international.

The development of special cables in Europe and America was more than half a century earlier than that of China, and they are in a relatively leading position in terms of experience and technology. However, China's special cables are also rapidly catching up, such as military special shielded cables, aerospace silane cross-linked wires and cables, high-temperature and high conductivity transmission cables, etc., and have now broken away from foreign technological monopolies In terms of special purpose and structural cables, China may still have a gap with Europe and America, but in terms of high temperature resistance, green insulation, environmental protection, and functional cables, we can almost compare with foreign countries.

Faced with broad development prospects and fierce market competition, the special cable industry urgently needs a development path that is suitable for itself. The country has put forward new requirements and support for the special cable industry in the 12th Five Year Plan, which also provides opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of the special cable industry. As a high-tech representative of the cable industry, special cables can only continuously improve the technological content of products and the core competitiveness of the market through innovation driven and technological innovation.

At present, there are more than 500 enterprises engaged in the production of special cables in China. Although some enterprises in Henan Huatai Special Cable and other provinces have entered advanced domestic levels in terms of technical equipment, testing methods, financial strength, product performance, etc., the technical level of the special cable industry still lacks competitiveness globally.

The awkwardness of insufficient technology and capabilities cannot be ignored. Taking high-speed rail and oil drilling platforms as examples, the annual production capacity gap has reached tens of thousands of kilometers. At the same time, the supporting capacity of special cables for new energy technologies such as thermal radiation and photovoltaic is also severely insufficient, according to a person in charge of a special cable