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Author / Lin Jiliang From "Scaling Up the Industry" to "Redefining Light" — A Night in Ningbo, Discussing the Past, Present, and Future of China's Lighting Industry with Wu Changjiang and Hong Bing The night in Ningbo. A few cups of tea. Cameras overheating due to long recording sessions. Even the fill lights ran out of battery late at night. A conversation originally expected to take one hour ultimately lasted more than two hours. And the three people in this dialogue— Wu Changjiang, Hong Bing, and I. To some extent, they also represent three different eras of China's lighting industry.
On May 9, the "Light Journey Together Resource Gathering Series" salon, jointly created by China Light Media · Ming Classroom and Ningbo Lighting Exhibition, was successfully held. The event specially invited Mr. Gu Niansong, a senior expert in R&D and innovation, to focus on the theme of DFSS Design for Six Sigma — AI Empowerment: From Engineering Theory to Cloud Implementation. Combining nearly 30 years of cross-industry R&D practical experience, he dissected the core logic of DFSS, tolerance simulation practices, AI-DFMEA, and VOC intelligent insights, helping lighting companies bridge the full chain from "engineering theory → tool implementation → cloud empowerment".
Recently, the Wuxi Academy of Educational Sciences announced the list of high-quality courses for science education, engineering education, and artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools in Wuxi for 2025. Meili Middle School in Wuxi's "Light Chip Farm: System Engineering Practice in Plant Factories" was successfully selected, achieving municipal-level project approval! Meili Middle School in Wuxi stated that "Light Chip Farm: System Engineering Practice in Plant Factories" features "light" as the core driver and "chip-level" precise control, cultivating students' systematic cognitive framework in the fields of science and engineering, becoming innovators with basic engineering literacy and scientific inquiry abilities.
1. Project Background and Necessity With the continuous deepening of China's urban refined management, dual-carbon strategy, light pollution prevention and control, and smart lighting upgrade policies, the traditional mode of road and scene lighting characterized by "fixed luminous efficacy, uniform light distribution, and extensive control" can no longer meet the comprehensive requirements of modern cities for lighting safety, comfort, energy saving, and compliance. Fixed luminous efficacy lighting generally suffers from pain points such as uneven illuminance, strong glare interference, severe light pollution, high ineffective energy consumption, and high operation and maintenance costs, which are seriously out of step with current policy directions, standard upgrades, and market demands. In this context,
On April 1, 2026, the Panasonic Group of Japan (i.e., Panasonic Holdings Corporation) officially completed its strategic split and restructuring. Panasonic simultaneously released three core announcements declaring the implementation of a new round of group-level organizational transformation, completing business segmentation, establishment of new entities, and personnel adjustments through absorption division. In this transformation, the strategic realignment of the lighting business has also attracted attention from industry professionals. This transformation uses absorption-based corporate division as its core mechanism, splitting the core businesses of the original Panasonic Corporation into three wholly-owned
Under the shadow of the actual controller being detained for investigation, Sanan Optoelectronics has recently issued multiple announcements. Controlling shareholder's shares frozen On the evening of March 29, Sanan Optoelectronics announced that the company shares held by its controlling shareholder, Xiamen Sanan Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sanan Electronics"), and its indirect controlling shareholder, Fujian Sanan Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sanan Group"), have been judicially frozen and subject to waiting list freezing. The announcement shows that the applicants for the freezing of shares held by Sanan Electronics are the Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court and the Chongqing High People's Court;
1. YiYong Optoelectronics Pioneered the "Scenario Luminous Efficacy Theory": Which Industry Perceptions Were Disrupted? The concept of "Adaptive Luminous Efficacy" proposed by Shanghai YiYong Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., along with its industry practices, related technological breakthroughs, and promotion of industry standards, has brought profound insights to the development of the lighting industry. It is not merely a technological upgrade, but a paradigm shift from "manufacturing mindset" to "service mindset," and from "parameter competition" to "scenario value." Below are the six core insights of the "Scenario Luminous Efficacy Theory" for the development of the lighting industry: 1. Redefining the Value Dimension
Currently, the LED lighting industry continues to evolve towards energy saving, intelligence, and high cost-performance ratio. Non-isolated driver power supplies, with their significant advantages of simplified structure and optimized costs, have become a key growth engine for mainstream application scenarios such as industrial lighting and area lighting, with their market potential constantly rising. However, at the same time, the non-isolated power supply market is showing signs of 'red ocean competition', with issues such as uneven product quality becoming pain points for the industry. The market urgently needs product benchmarks that combine high quality, high cost-performance ratio, and technological innovation.
In January 2026, Zhuosheng Lighting and ams OSRAM officially renewed their ten-year strategic brand licensing cooperation agreement, once again securing the exclusive licensed right to use the "OSRAM" and "欧司朗" trademarks in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau for professional general lighting luminaires and dynamic lighting. This agreement, which lays the foundation for development over the next decade, marks a new phase for both parties moving from "licensing cooperation" to "strategic co-construction." At this key strategic starting point, Zhuosheng Lighting will hold its partner conference in Kunming, Yunnan on March 24, themed "
On March 11, 2026, during Light + Building 2026, the most influential industry event in the global lighting and building technology sector, Lighting Recipe Studio (LRS) and Traxon Technologies Limited officially announced the establishment of a strategic partnership. This collaboration marks their shared vision for promoting the development of next-generation lighting environments. As the lighting industry gradually evolves from traditional "lighting equipment" to "