What Kind Of Hardware Is Often Referred To As Hardware in Hardware Processing?

We can learn from the Modern Chinese Dictionary that in contemporary "hardware" generally refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin (aluminum). These five kinds of metal ware materials are common and commonly used in our life.
Generally, these materials need to go through cutting, forging, calendering and other processing processes before becoming metal utensils, and the final products are collectively referred to as hardware products.
At present, hardware products are widely used, such as building hardware, kitchen and bathroom hardware, repair tool hardware, and so on. Hardware includes manual, electric, auto maintenance tools and other products. People naturally call all products made of metal hardware.
Common household hardware includes vice, screwdriver, wrench, hammer, tape measure, electric pen, etc.
The hardware industry also plays a very important role in the development of the national economy and is an important part of China's light industry. The data shows that the future development direction of 2022 hardware products industry, and high-quality development will be the major trend and direction of the development of the hardware industry for a long time in the future.
The Guiding Opinions on the Development of the Hardware Industry during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" was officially released on March 3. It is pointed out that the current hardware products industry is in a critical period of growth power transformation, and the guiding ideology, principles and key tasks of the industry's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period are clarified. It is proposed that the average annual growth of the industry's gross output value during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period will reach more than 5%. While further consolidating the status of the global hardware manufacturing factory, it is necessary to improve the modern manufacturing system and move forward to the development goal of becoming a hardware manufacturing power.
Today, China's demand for hardware products is 106.87 billion yuan, up 2.8% year on year. Driven by the growth of downstream demand scale, the output of China's hardware products industry has continued to increase, and the scale of output value has also continued to expand. The output value of the hardware products industry is 163.62 billion yuan, up 0.5% year on year. In recent years, China's export of hardware products has maintained a stable growth trend. China has become one of the major exporters of hardware products in the world. It is expected that the annual export volume will continue to increase by 10-15% in the future