China glasses market

The market scale of China glasses industry is increasing year by year. According to statistics, by 2024, the number of glasses stores in China has exceeded 65,438+10,000. In recent years, with the acceleration of China's aging process, people's attention to eye health has increased, and the demand for vision correction and protection has been increasing, which has promoted the substantial growth of the glasses industry market.

With the diversification and individualization of people's demand for glasses industry, various types of glasses products have appeared in the market, including myopia glasses, hyperopia glasses, contact lenses, sunglasses and so on. Nowadays, people's demand for functional glasses products such as anti-blue lens and anti-radiation lens is rising gradually, and functional glasses have become a new hot spot in the market.

Traditional physical chain stores and professional optical shops are still the main sales channels of the optical industry, but the arrival of the Internet era has also brought new sales models. Many glasses brands began to sell products on e-commerce platforms. Consumers can buy glasses online, and the convenience and experience of buying glasses are improved through online glasses matching and try-on service.

With the rapid development of information technology, people pay more and more attention to eye health. The demand for functional glasses such as anti-blue lens, anti-radiation lens and sunglasses is increasing gradually. With the popularization of electronic products and the increase of service time, these functional glasses are expected to become the main driving force of the glasses industry in the future.

Despite the rapid development of e-commerce, glasses are personal consumer goods, and consumers need to try them on to evaluate their dimensional comfort. Therefore, online and offline integration is the future development direction, realizing the coherent experience of consumers' online shopping, offline audition and optician.

Development history

The rudiment of glasses began with the crystal convex mirror in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A small and exquisite crystal magnifying glass was unearthed from Liu Jing's tomb in Aiquanshan, Yangzhou, Jiangsu. It is a crystal convex mirror, round, embedded in a ring-shaped gold ring, which can magnify the object five times.

Liu Jing was the son of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be seen that as early as the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, China's mirror-making technology and craft had been superb, and the prototype of glasses began to appear in the Han Dynasty.

In the early years of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (AD 1628), an outstanding technician named Sun appeared in the history of Suzhou glasses. He invented and developed optical lenses with different uses, such as Baihua mirror, Yuan Yang Jing, magnifying glass, polygon mirror and magic lens.

Since then, the glasses made by Sun Qiu Yun have become world-famous. Unfortunately, such an accomplished technical talent died at the age of 33, but he left behind a scientific and technological work called "History of Mirrors", which played an immeasurable role in promoting the glasses manufacturing technology in later generations.

After Sun, during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty, there was another person who made glasses in Suzhou, named Chu Sanshan. He further developed the technology of making glasses, and the sales hall was quite influential. By the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the production and sales of glasses were booming in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other places, and glasses became specialized commodities.