The data show that from 2012 to 2020, the industrial added value of China’s instrument and meter manufacturing industry has shown a year-on-year growth trend, and in 2019, its industrial added value growth rate reached 10.5%. However, in the beginning of 2020, a sudden epidemic has caused a huge impact on the whole society, and has also caused great harm to the instrument manufacturing industry.

1746-A13 At the 2nd China Scientific Instrument and Equipment Independent Innovation Summit held in Hangzhou Qingshan Lake Science and Technology City, a number of experts from scientific research institutes and executives of leading enterprises in the instrument industry took “Pain point Analysis of China’s Scientific instrument and equipment Independent Innovation Research and development and new breakthroughs in market sales mechanism” as the theme. This paper discusses how to further enhance the independent innovation ability of China’s scientific research equipment and build a new mode of “R&D enterprise-key user-management expert” cooperation mechanism.

“The market competitiveness of scientific instrument enterprises is weak, the brand effect is low, and the world’s top 50 enterprises have no seat for domestic enterprises; The scope of scientific instrument products, categories, varieties and model specifications is limited, and many high-end scientific instruments needed for laboratory and production are still dependent on imports.” Referring to the development status of scientific instruments in China, chief expert Nian Fushun of the 41st Institute of China Electronics Science and Technology Group said that in recent years, in order to promote independent innovation in scientific research instruments, China has carried out a series of initiatives and obtained 1746-A13 certain results, but there is still a gap compared with foreign high-end technology level.

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1746-A13 According to 2018 statistics, in the electronic measuring instrument industry, the United States Keysight Technology company has a total of 851 models of products, and the scale and market share of the world’s first. China’s largest supplier of electronic measuring instruments, CEC Instruments, has 275 models of products, the number of products is second only to the former, but the market share of high-end instruments is very low.

“Many well-known instrument companies abroad are century-old shops, professional, brand, high credibility. Domestic related enterprises are mostly established in the past 20 years, small scale, low brand effect. Many state-owned instrument enterprises with a long history have been eliminated in the market competition.” Nian Fushun suggested that the future development and application of scientific instruments have huge prospects and potential, and high-end scientific instruments should be autonomous and controllable by cultivating large instrument companies and invisible champions.

1746-A13 It is not difficult to understand that scientific instrument is a multidisciplinary integration of systems engineering, not only the basic theory and key technical breakthroughs, but also the material, equipment, components, manufacturing process, design simulation software and other industrial basis support.

“Not having a strong industrial base is like building tall buildings on the beach.” Experts at the meeting stressed that China’s scientific instrument industry foundation is weak, the industrial chain has not yet formed, and more investment and long-term training are needed.

In addition, the innovative development of scientific instruments can also play a role in improving the level of manufacturing equipment and production efficiency. Li Hua, director of the Science and Technology Platform Division of the Basic Research Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said in this regard that the basic Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology is currently planning to formulate the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” major instrument research and development plan, and will promote the independent innovation and development of China’s scientific instruments by strengthening the forward-looking innovation research of scientific instruments.