With the rapid growth of consumer electronics, automotive electronics, communication terminal market and the shift of global connector production capacity to Asia and China, Asia has become a potential place for connector market, and China will become the world's fastest growing and largest market for connector capacity. It is estimated that the growth rate of China's connector market will continue to exceed the global average in the future. In the next 5 years, the annual growth rate of China's connector market will reach 15%, and the capacity of China's connector market will reach 25 billion 700 million yuan by 2010.
The main supporting fields of the electrical connector are transportation, communication, network, IT, medical treatment, household appliances, and so on. The rapid development of the technical level of the products in the supporting field and the rapid growth of the market are the powerful traction of the development of the connector technology. Up to now, the connector has developed into a series of products with complete variety of products, rich variety specifications, various structural types, professional direction subdivision, obvious industry characteristics and standard system specification.
Generally speaking, the development of connector technology presents the following characteristics: high speed and digitalization of signal transmission, integration of all kinds of signal transmission, miniaturization of product volume, low cost of product, surface attachment of contact parts, modular combination, convenience of pluggable and so on. The above technology represents the direction of the development of connector technology, but it needs to be explained that the above technology is not necessary for all connectors, different matching areas and different use of the environment of the connector, the requirements of the above technology are completely different.