Overall direction: high-quality development and technological innovation
In 2025, China's wire and cable industry is experiencing a profound transformation from scale expansion to high-quality development under the guidance of national strategy. According to the "People's Republic of China national economic and social development of the fourteenth five-year plan and 2035 Vision Outline", the state clearly puts forward "improve the utilization rate of ultra-high voltage transmission channel, accelerate the intelligent transformation of power grid infrastructure" strategic deployment. This policy guidance has directly driven the market demand for ultra-high voltage cables, smart cables and other high-end products, it is expected that in 2025, the national grid investment will exceed 650 billion yuan, the ultra-high voltage cable market size increased by more than 15% year-on-year.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments issued the "China Wire and Cable Industry" 14th Five-Year "Development Guidance" to further clarify the technical route: to carry out high-end electrical steel low-loss transformers, thermoplastic environmental cable materials, new low greenhouse effect of environmentally friendly insulating gases and other key equipment development. This means that the industry will gradually eliminate low-end homogenized products, technology-intensive, high value-added areas of transformation.
Main policy content and requirements
1. Quality supervision and certification strengthening
In 2025, the wire and cable industry will face a stricter quality supervision system. The State Administration for Market Regulation has issued the "Implementation Rules for Quality Supervision and Sampling of Wire and Cable Products (2025 Edition)" in accordance with the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Product Quality Supervision and Sampling", which will be implemented from June 23, 2025. This regulation provides clear regulations on the spot check procedures and judgment rules for wire and cable products, and provides a unified standard for market supervision departments in various regions.
It is worth noting that from July 1, 2025, flame retardant wires and cables will be fully subject to mandatory product certification (CCC) management. Flame retardant wires and cables that have not obtained CCC certification and are marked with certification marks shall not be shipped, sold, imported, or used in other business activities. This policy aims to prevent wires and cables that do not meet standard requirements and pose safety hazards from entering the market, effectively ensuring the personal and property safety of consumers.
2. Requirements for environmental protection and technological innovation
Environmental policies have become an important driving force for the upgrading of the wire and cable industry by 2025. The relevant policies require a significant increase in the proportion of environmentally friendly cables in infrastructure projects, forcing enterprises to adopt clean production processes.
Specifically, it includes:
Promote the application of green products such as low smoke halogen-free, flame retardant and fire-resistant in infrastructure projects;
Require enterprises to gradually phase out traditional high pollution production processes;
Encourage the research and development of environmentally friendly products such as thermoplastic cable materials, new low-temperature chamber effect environmentally friendly insulation gases, etc;
In terms of technological innovation, policies encourage enterprises to develop towards intelligence and high-end direction. For example, by using AI visual inspection and flexible production lines, the product defect rate can be controlled at an extremely low level; Develop cross-border products such as optoelectronic composite cables for 5G base stations and liquid cooled cables for new energy vehicles.
3. Anti internal competition and industry integration
For the first time in 2025, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference will include "comprehensive rectification of 'internal competition'" in the government work report, clearly proposing measures such as breaking down local protectionism, regulating market behavior, and strengthening anti-monopoly supervision. For the wire and cable industry, this policy orientation means a turning point from "disorderly expansion" to "high-quality competition".
Specific measures include:
Withdraw subsidies for inefficient production capacity, promote industry self-discipline and supply side optimization;
By eliminating outdated production capacity and cracking down on low price dumping, we can free up development space for technology driven enterprises;
Accelerate the establishment and improvement of the cable product quality grading system, and create a market environment of high quality and good price;
Industry Impact and Development Trend
1. Market Structure Changes
Under the policy guidance in 2025, the structure of wire and cable market shows obvious pyramid stratification:
High-end market: foreign brands still occupy a certain share in the ultra-high-voltage cable market, but the process of domestic substitution continues to accelerate.
Mid-range market: local head enterprises rely on scale advantages, forming a higher degree of concentration.
Segmented market: long-tailed enterprises through differentiated competition, in the robotics cable, medical equipment special cable and other segments to form a characteristic advantage.
2. Technology development direction
policy driven, wire and cable industry technology development presents the following trends:
Material innovation: new conductor materials to reduce the weight while maintaining the conductive properties, high-temperature-resistant insulation materials to make a breakthrough in the cable temperature resistance level.
Intelligent manufacturing: the head of the enterprise through the AI visual inspection and flexible production line, the product defective rate control at a very low level.
System integration: from "single transmission" to "power + data + control" multi-modal fusion evolution, smart cable can real-time monitoring of equipment status and early warning of faults.
3. Enterprise coping strategies
In the face of the policy environment in 2025, wire and cable enterprises need to take the following strategies:
Strengthen R & D investment: focus on environmental protection materials, special cables and other high-end product development.
Promote intelligent manufacturing: build smart factories, improve production efficiency and product quality.
Optimize capacity structure: eliminate backward production capacity, to the transformation of high value-added products.
Strengthen quality control: establish a perfect quality management system to ensure that products meet the latest standards.
Expand application areas: focus on new energy, 5G, data centers and other emerging market demand.
Summary and Outlook
In 2025, the national policy for the wire and cable industry will focus on "high-quality development" and promote industry transformation and upgrading through multidimensional measures such as quality supervision, environmental protection requirements, technological innovation, and anti involution. Policies not only bring challenges, but also create development opportunities for high-quality enterprises.
In the next few years, the wire and cable industry will present the following development trends:
Industry concentration has increased, and the market share of high-quality enterprises has expanded;
The proportion of high-end products is increasing, and homogeneous low-end products are gradually being phased out;
Green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing have become industry standards;
The application fields are constantly expanding, and new energy and new infrastructure have become important growth points;
For enterprises, following policy guidance, strengthening technological innovation and quality control will be the key to winning market competition. At the same time, the industry also needs to strengthen self-discipline, jointly maintain a good market order, and achieve sustainable development.
