History has entered modern industrial society, and the metal hardware products industry has developed rapidly. The hardware industry has played an immeasurable role in the development of the national economy, and hardware products have become an indispensable industrial link in industrial manufacturing.
But rather as supporting products for industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products, and tools used in the production process. Only a small portion of daily hardware products are essential tools for people's daily lives.
In the national economic industry classification of the National Bureau of Statistics, manufacturing is the third largest industry category. This includes the production and manufacturing of daily necessities, such as agricultural and sideline products, food and beverages, tobacco, textiles, clothing, leather, wood furniture, printing and stationery, as well as pharmaceutical manufacturing; The manufacturing of means of production, such as petrochemicals, chemical fibers, rubber and plastics, non-metallic product manufacturing, metal smelting and processing, metal product manufacturing, general equipment manufacturing, industry-specific equipment manufacturing, as well as transportation equipment manufacturing, electrical equipment, communication electronics, and so on.
The related products in the categories of metal products in the manufacturing industry and general components in the manufacturing of general equipment constitute the usual "small hardware". From this, it can be seen that 'hardware' is not an existing industry category, but a cross combination of the above-mentioned metal products - hardware products. In the entire manufacturing industry, the responsibility of 'hardware' is to provide components and production tools to manufacturing enterprises, rather than serving as industry-specific equipment for final use. However, we cannot deny the important role of "hardware" in the social production process: "hardware" and manufacturing are an inseparable whole intertwined with each other.
