Since the reform and opening up, especially relying on coastal industrial transfer, Hefei appliance industry through continuous upgrading has made great progress, has now become the country’s largest home appliance production base. However, with rising labor, raw material costs, market structure changes in domestic and external demand, intelligent, energy-saving emergence of new trends, Hefei appliance industry, the existing labor-intensive production methods have been difficult to sustain. In 2014, the State Council proposed to the construction of the Yangtze River economic belt as a major strategy of regional development, relying on the golden waterway, innovation-driven industrial upgrading, create a group such as home appliances, high-end equipment, automobile and other world-class industry clusters. The city government have responded positively, proposed to rely on the city’s industrial base and the environment for the development of existing industries, profound grasp of the future trend of industrial development, through 5--10 years of efforts, the formation of a number of world-class industry clusters. In the background to create a world-class industry clusters, Hefei as a basis for the best home appliance industry to gather and unique conditions of the Yangtze River basin, on the basis of how to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, and further strengthen its leading position and to play a leading role to promote China’s home appliance industry go go go faster is good, is the key issue Hefei appliance industry in the next five years and even longer period to achieve the transformation and upgrading of great historical mission, this paper is to study. In a world-class industry clusters to create the background, you need from the regional level to re-examine industrial escalation, use of regional resources and economic coordination and cooperation of the Yangtze River economic belt, promote industrial upgrading technology innovation capability as the core, by building regional value chain integration regional elements of resources, improve the regional coordination mechanism, enhance the technological innovation capability to achieve Hefei appliance industry upgrading and coordinated regional economic growth. On this basis, we analyze the dominant and leading role in Hefei to build a world-class home appliance industry cluster, and make Hefei appliance industry upgrading specific routing and targeted policy recommendations.The main contents of this article is divided into seven chapters:The first chapter is the introduction, focusing on the research background and significance, literature review, research methods and content, research ideas and technology roadmap, as well as the possible lack of innovation and abroad. The second chapter is the theoretical basis for industrial upgrading concept and content were defined, we summarized the relevant theories of industrial upgrading. The third chapter is a situation analysis, discusses the current situation and problems of Hefei appliance industry. The fourth chapter analyzes the problem, the main obstacle to Hefei appliance industry is facing are analyzed. The fifth chapter is the path of study, combined with the first world-class industry clusters to create the background, proposed the construction of regional value chains is Hefei appliance industry upgrading possible directions, and from market factors, regional factors, technical factors on the regional value chain mechanism of three the analysis pointed out that the regional elements of integration, regional coordination and cooperation mechanisms, technological innovation is the key to coordination Hefei appliance industry upgrading and regional economic growth to achieve; secondly from Hefei by building regional value chains, play a leading role in the world-class home appliance industry cluster and the leading role of view, put forward specific path Hefei appliance industry upgrading. The sixth chapter is to better promote Hefei status and role in the world-class home appliance industry cluster, and put forward specific policy recommendations. Chapter VII is the full text of the summary and future research prospects. |