Viewpoint

1. The Chinese UPS market continued to maintain a stable growth in 2000, with a total sales volume of UPS products at 860 thousand sets and sales nearing 2 billion Yuan.

2. The UPS market for mid and small enterprise users accounted for 45.61% of the whole UPS market in 2000.

3. The sales will reach 2.2 billion yuan and the sales volume 1 million in the Chinese UPS market in 2001, growing by 13.4% and 16.3% respectively.

4. As the Jinyu Project is implemented and the investment in the West Development is reinforced in 2001, the sector purchase will become a new growth in the UPS market. In addition, as the ownership of home PCs increases, the home users will produce a huge demand for UPSs, bringing new business opportunities to UPS vendors.

I. Overview of UPS market conditions in 2000

1. Economic conditions

2. Industrial conditions

3. Technical conditions

4. Policy and financial conditions

5. Associated research

a. PC market conditions

b. Server market conditions

c. System integration market conditions

d. Network product market conditions

This chapter provides a unique analysis of the characteristics and conditions of the domestic UPS market to help vendors understand the domestic UPS market.

II. Total volume and structure of UPS market in 2000

1. Total volume and growth

a. Total volume

b. Growth rate

2. Analysis of brands in the market

a. Sales structure by brand

b. Market structure of sales volume by brand

3. Market structure by product

a. Analysis of UPS market by categories

b. Analysis of UPS market by power

4. Market analysis by area

a. General conditions

b. Analysis of the market structures by brand in different areas

5. Market structure by sector application

6. Market structure by enterprise application

Chapter Highlights

This chapter is focuses on the analysis of the total volume, growth and structures by brand, product, area and user of the Chinese UPS market in 2000. According to a lasting tracking survey on the market by CCID, the Chinese UPS market continued to maintain stable growth in 2000, with a total sales volume of UPS products at 860 thousand sets and sales nearing 2 billion yuan. The UPS market for mid and small enterprise users accounted for 45.61% of the whole UPS market in 2000. CCID predicts that the percentage of the mid and small enterprise users in the whole market will increase over the next two years.

III. Analysis of the supply and demand in the Chinese UPS market in 2000

1. Demand analysis

a. Market demand

b. Key factors determining market demand

c. Demand structure

d. Demand characteristics

2. Supply analysis

a. Market supply

b. Key factors determining market supply

c. Supply structure

d. Supply characteristics

Chapter Highlights

This chapter discusses the volume, structure and characteristics of supply and demand in the Chinese UPS market in 2000 and provides detailed analysis and description of the key factors determining the market supply and demand. The demand for UPS grew by 20% from the previous year in the enterprise application segment of the Chinese UPS market and the seasonality of the demand in sector application is not clear. In 2000, the mid- and low- power UPS products were adequately supplied and the high-power UPS products experienced shortages of supply.

IV. Analysis of the competition situation in the UPS market in 2000

1. Product competition

2. Price competition

3. Channel competition

4. Service competition

 

Chapter Highlights

This chapter reviews the products, prices, channels and service strategies of major vendors in the Chinese UPS market in 2000. During the year, each UPS vendor rolled out its new products to increase market share. As the vendors providing low-power UPS products reduced prices for market promotion, the prices of the low-power UPS products was lowered by 20%. In the market for high-power UPS products, MGE UPS Systems greatly cut the price of its products in some volume purchases while the others including Invensys, Xiankong and Liebert maintained stable prices for their UPS products. The price cut rate for UPS products averaged at 15% in the domestic market in 2000.

V. Key characteristics of the UPS market in 2000

1. Products

a. Home UPS products tended to be small in size

b. High availability, network capability and intelligence

c. The UPS products with power at 5 to 30 KVA were still the main stream products in the market.

2. Price

a. Prices for high-power UPS products tended to be transparent.

b. The low-power UPS products were in a state of un-orderly competition in regards to price.

3. Channels

a. Channels tended to be diversified, flat and professional.

b. Channel flatness

c. Channel professionalism

4. Market promotion

5. Services

Chapter Highlights

This chapter highlights the key characteristics of the Chinese UPS product market in terms of products, prices, channels and services in 2000. As the ownership of PC market increasingly grows, vendors providing low-power UPSs began to treat UPS products specially used for PCs as a focus in market promotion. Small-size design became a starting point to extend the market. The UPS products with power at 5 to 30 KAV are still the mainstream products in the UPS market, so were the fact in 2000. The main reason for this lies in the fact that users in telecommunications, financial and post sectors and mid and small enterprises are the main consumers in the Chinese UPS market. The pricing of high-power UPS products tended to be transparent. With the implementation of Law for State Bid Invitation and Bidding and the standardization of state purchases, the sector purchases of IT products mostly employ the bid invitation method. The sales of high-power UPS products mainly come from sector purchases. During the bidding, all the vendors put their bidding prices in publicity, making the pricing of the high-power UPS product tend to be transparent. This chapter also forecasts and looks forward at the development trends of products, prices, channels, market promotion and services in the Chinese UPS market in 2001.

VI. Analysis of the key factors impacting the development of the UPS market between 2001 and 2003

1. User demand structure

2. Development trend of product technologies

3. Development trend of channels

4. Development trend of macro economy

Chapter Highlights

This chapter provides a qualitative analysis and forecast of the Chinese UPS market in 2001 in terms of user demand structure and development trends of product technologies, channels and macro economic factors. As the Jinyu Project is implemented and the investment in the West Development is reinforced in 2001, the industry purchase will become a new growth in the UPS market. The enterprise application market will maintain a rapid growth in 2001. In addition, as the ownership of home PCs increases, the home users will produce a huge demand for UPSs, bringing new business opportunities to UPS vendors.

VII. Forecast for the UPS Market between 2001 and 2003

Chapter Highlights

Through the analysis and simulation of historical data, the corresponding forecasting method was adopted to quantitatively analyze and forecast the UPS market in 2000. As for the UPS products used in combination with computer and network products, the market has moved out of the developing stage into maturity. The pace of its development will be kept in conformity with the developing speed of the overall IT industry. CCID expects that sales will reach 2.2 billion yuan and sales volume 1 million in the Chinese UPS market in 2001, growing by 13.4% and 16.3% respectively.

Data

Figure 1       The growth rates of sales and sales volume of the Chinese UPS market during the period of 1998 to 2000

Data Source: CCID

Figure 2       The sales growth of all categories of products in the Chinese UPS market in 2000

Data Source: CCID

Figure 3       The UPS market makeup of the products of all the power levels in 2000 (according to the sales)

Data Source: CCID