Relevant statistics show that the manufacturing industry in the West accounts for 9.8% of the country, hardware and electrical industry for 8.95% of the country, metal products (hardware) accounted for 4.28% of the country. Last year, the sales revenue of the hardware and electrical machinery industry in the West was 395.1 billion yuan, accounting for 34.15% (1156.9 billion yuan) of the industry in the west, and the metal products in the West accounted for 1.15% of the industry in the west. Generally speaking, the development of hardware and electrical machinery industry in Western China is still in its infancy, with a small total scale and low quality, but it indicates a great development space and potential.

The per capita GDP in the western region is likely to exceed $1,000; the industrialization rate is close to 40%; the consumption structure will shift from eating, wearing, using to living and traveling; and the urbanization level in the western region will probably be close to 50% by 2020. The promotion of industrialization is mainly manifested in the strategy of local transformation of resources implemented in the west, which will lengthen the industrial chain in the West and further extend the industry in the West from primary products to manufactured products, such as the deep processing of non-ferrous metals and ferrous metals, thus increasing the demand for hardware electromechanical products (especially tools, molds and other mechanical hardware). In the next 5 years, the pace of westward transfer of foreign and developed industries will accelerate. Foreign investment in China is accelerating northward and westward. At present, some foreign capital, including the headquarters of transnational corporations and R&D centers, continue to transfer to the Bohai Rim and Northeast China. At the same time, some foreign investment and the resource-dependent, labor-intensive and high-energy-consuming industries in the eastern coastal areas appear westward. The trend of transfer is estimated to reach a climax in 12th Five-Year.

Especially, with the shortage of land and power in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and even serious shortage of migrant workers and technicians, energy resources and environmental constraints are increasingly intensified, a considerable number of labor-intensive and energy-intensive enterprises are transferring to the central and Western regions. It is reported that the vast majority of Zhejiang is facing the situation of no land supply, with the largest electricity gap; it is estimated that hundreds of billions of private capital is finding a way out.

From the view of the national industrial layout, the transfer of the hardware industry in the manufacturing industry to the west not only conforms to the law of technology gradient transfer (coastal focus on high-tech industries, most of the hardware technology content is not high enough for the development of the west), but also helps to promote the upgrading of the coastal industry and promote the development of the manufacturing industry in the west. It is an important opportunity for the western regions to accelerate their development in the future to actively prepare and take the initiative to undertake the transfer of coastal industries.

The central government has also made it clear that the state's strategy for the development of the western region will not waver, its support for the western region will not be weakened, and the pace of economic and social development in the western region will not be slowed down. Especially in the future, the state's long-term construction bonds, budget investment and special construction funds should continue to tilt towards the western region; while continuing to strengthen key construction projects in the western region and rural infrastructure construction, it will increase financial support for basic education and public health and other social undertakings in the western region.

The above four factors will make the future hardware and electrical industry in the West have a good development prospect. In the next five years, if the proportion of the hardware and electrical machinery industry in the western region in China increases by 3-5 percentage points, the output value of the hardware and electrical machinery industry in the western region will probably increase by 2-300 billion yuan.

International experience shows that industrialization is an insurmountable historical stage for developing countries and regions. For the vast western regions, which account for more than 70% of the territory and 28% of the population, accelerating industrialization is an irreplaceable choice. At present, China is in the middle stage of industrialization. Coal, petrochemical, automobile, iron and steel, real estate, building materials, machinery, electronics and other high-growth industries based on heavy industry have a strong development momentum, which will certainly constitute a huge market demand for hardware and electrical industry. At the same time, we should pay attention to the national macro-control, especially land and telecommunications. The impact of loan and real estate policy changes.

Entering a new historical period of development, the west, like the whole country, must abandon the traditional development model and follow the new road of industrialization in accordance with the requirements of the scientific concept of development.

1, rely on science and technology to extend the chain of resource processing, and increase the added value of manufacturing industry as much as possible.

The western region is a natural resource rich area in China, but the resource processing chain in the west is short and the added value is low. For example, the output value of mining and processing of non-ferrous metals in the West accounted for 33.54% of the country, while the output value of smelting and calendering of non-ferrous metals accounted for only 27.12% of the country, and that of the East accounted for 34.56% and 45.70% respectively. If the deep processing coefficient of the west can reach the level of the whole country and even the eastern developed areas, the output value of the manufacturing industry in the West will double, which is also the key way to turn the resource advantage of the West into the economic advantage.

2, develop green manufacturing industry, promote resource conservation and environmental friendly development.

Green Manufacturing (GM) is a manufacturing system that takes into account the optimal utilization of resources and environmental impact. Its main purpose is to make industrial products from design, manufacture, packaging, transportation, use to scrap treatment of the product life cycle, the minimum impact on the environment, no harm to human health, the highest resource efficiency. According to this idea and requirement, we can avoid the destructive consequences to resources and environment and realize the sustainable development strategy of developing in protection and protecting in development.

3, attach importance to human resources development and combine labor cost reduction with increasing employment.

The proportion of employment in the western primary industry is still above 60%, which is higher than 10 percentage points in China. The transfer of a large number of rural labor will provide sufficient and cheap labor supply for the western manufacturing industry. Therefore, attention should be paid to the western region.