China's Light Health Industry Has Entered a Mature and Deepening Phase Industry Insiders: Healthy Lighting Development Still Faces Standard Gaps

Why does the lack of standards in AI become the core bottleneck in the development of healthy lighting?

March 15, in Zhongshan Guzhen, known as the “Lighting Capital of China,” the blue paper titled “Light Health Practice and Development,” led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, was officially released.

According to reports from Daily Economic News, the blue paper states that the development process of China’s light health industry is a continuous progression of “concept awakening—technological breakthroughs—standard safeguarding—full-scenario implementation.” “Light health” refers to the overall impact of light on human vision, physiology, and mental health. Healthy light should ensure visual comfort, prevent myopia, maintain stable biological rhythms, and promote positive emotions and cognitive functions.

The blue paper notes that since 2024, China’s light health industry has entered a stage of maturity and deepening. Light health technologies have upgraded full-scenario solutions, focusing on natural rhythm simulation and personalized health needs, forming an industrial ecosystem covering home, education, healthcare, medical fields, and entering a new stage of high-quality development.

On-site, the director and researcher Cai Jianqi of the Visual Health and Safety Protection Laboratory at the China Standardization Research Institute explained that the three core issues facing the light health industry are myopia prevention in children and adolescents, age-appropriate lighting for the elderly, and visual health protection in the digital age. Compared to overseas countries, China already has unique advantages in the development of the light health industry: biological technology and advanced electronics have weakened Western comparative advantages, and China has formed a complete innovation cycle, with data samples and diversity in photobiological research far surpassing those in Europe and America.

He straightforwardly stated that the future core competition in the light health industry will no longer be a simple technological contest among individual companies, but a comprehensive competition of multi-party collaborative capabilities.

Simultaneously with the release of the blue paper, domestic LED company Sanxiong Aurora officially launched the “Light Health 2.0 Certification Mark,” heralding the full launch of the “Health 2.0 Era” in lighting. Zhu Liyi, General Manager of R&D at Sanxiong Aurora, said that in the “Health 2.0 Era,” lighting tools will transition from “passive protection” to “active intervention.” He pointed out that the development of healthy lighting faces three major core challenges: control challenges, lack of standards, and neglect of spatial light fields, which restrict industry progress and consumer experience. Among these, “lack of standards” refers to the absence of a unified evaluation system for “biological rhythm friendliness,” making it difficult for consumers to distinguish genuine healthy light. This is also the main reason why Sanxiong Aurora launched the “Light Health 2.0 Certification Mark.”

During the forum at the press conference, Daily Economic News learned that the issue of standards in the healthy lighting industry also sparked lively discussions among participating companies and experts. They unanimously agreed that building a complete light health standard system still requires active participation from the entire industry, repeated validation through multi-scenario practice, and continuous refinement to achieve maturity.

Daily Economic News