CNCAO NEWS Taizhou, Zhejiang, as the pilot city of "Made in China 2025" along with China's largest production base of intelligent toilets, it has settled a "small target" at the beginning of this year that is to reach the industrial scale of intelligent toilets from over 2 billion to 100 billion yuan before 2025. On June 9, Beijing Time, Lin Huayou, the president of Taizhou Intelligent Toilets Association and chairman of the board of Orans Co., Ltd., states when being asked by journalist that it is not that hard to achieve this "small target".

 

　　

　　据了解，目前台州拥有智能马桶企业30多家，其中规模以上企业9家，截至2016年底，国内智能马桶销量200万台，其中100万台在台州生产。2016年，台州获批创建国家级智能马桶产业质量提升示范区。

　　

　　It is said that up to now, there have already been more than 30 entreprises producing intelligent toilets in Taizhou, with nine of those above designated size. Until the end of 2016, home sales of intelligent toilets reaches the number of 2 million and half of these were produced in Taizhou. In 2016, Taizhou got approved to establish a state-level demonstration area of intelligent toilet industry's quality promotion.

　　

　　林华友告诉作者，智能马桶行业的前景非常大。虽早在1995年台州就生产了中国第一台智能马桶，但这个行业仍然处于萌芽阶段，且随着国内消费观念的转变，中国人对智能马桶的需求也将越来越大。

　　

　　According to Lin, the expectation of intelligent toilets is promising. Although China's first intelligent toilets were produced in Taizhou as early as in 1995, this industry has still been in the budding period and Chinese people's demands of intelligent toilets will also be increasing with the transformation of domestic consumption concept.

 

　　

　　然而，林华友认为，尽管智能马桶的前景非常好，但是要实现1000亿元的“小目标”，仅仅依靠卖智能马桶是不够的，还需利用智能马桶的核心技术带动整个产业链的发展，这不仅需要企业，以及行业协会的发力，还需要政府的介入。

　　

　　However, Lin also holds the view that it won't be enough to achieve this "100 billion-small target" that merely depends on selling them, even though the development prospects could be solely bright. It also requires the development of the whole industry chain led by the core techniques of intelligent toilets production, which not only needs the efforts made by entreprises and the industrial association, but also the intervention of government.

　　

　　林华友认为，中国智能马桶行业曾经面临最大的问题在于缺少行业标准。多年以来，中国的卫浴马桶企业都在模仿日本和欧美国家标准生产产品，因此地位很低；而智能马桶领域，由于一直没有行业标准，也仅能依照普通家用电器和清洁卫浴的标准进行生产，因此在过去几年当中，智能马桶的抽检结果“不容乐观”。

　　

　　Lin reckons that the biggest problem for intelligent toilet industry in China used to be the lack of industrial standard. Over years, China's sanitary ware companies, entreprises producing toilets, has been on the way to mimic the production in Japan or Europe and the US according to their standards, which leads o its low position. While in the field of intelligent toilets, it could only base on the standards of ordinary household electrical appliances and sanitary ware as the lack of industrial standard, which makes the results of random inspection for intelligent toilets be "unpromising" for the past few years.

 

　　

　　为此，在2016年和2017年，作为行业协会会长企业，欧路莎卫浴先后牵头制定了智能马桶行业标准以及品字标“浙江制造”认证标准，目前该企业正在申请“浙江制造”认证，预计最快将于今年年底之前认证通过。

　　

　　To be faced with such situation, Orans Sanitary Ware, as the leader of the industrial association, has played the leading role to set up the industrial standard of intelligent toilets as well as the approval standards of "Zhejiang made" brand standard. And currently, this corporation has been applying for the approval standards of "Zhejiang made", whose application is expected to be passed before the end of this year at the fastest speed.

（中国网作者 杨云寒 孙吴琦/译）