The localization of high-end instruments has always been the weakness of the domestic equipment manufacturing industry. In this year’s National Two Sessions, this topic was raised by a number of representatives and members, and triggered widespread discussion.

What is the development status of the instrumentation industry? How to break the high-end scientific instrument market by foreign manufacturers long-term monopoly “embarrassment”? What impact has the “new infrastructure” brought to the development of the instrumentation industry?

DT602 GJR2911200R1 Ouyang Jinsong, director of the comprehensive Technical and economic Research Institute of machinery industry instrumentation, has deep feelings about the above problems. He believes that the structural contradictions of China’s instrumentation industry are prominent, and it is urgent to break through and improve from the aspects of industry management, technological innovation and industrial development.

There are structural contradictions in the instrumentation industry

China Industry News: At present, what is the development status of China’s instrument and meter industry? What are the main bottlenecks?

Ouyang Jinsong: Since the “12th Five-Year Plan”, China’s instrumentation industry has received a large number of support policies from governments at all levels, and has cultivated a group of talents and innovative teams. In 2019, the number of enterprises above the industry size has exceeded 4,400, and the self-sufficiency rate of the domestic market is close to 60%. At present, China has basically solved the problem of instrument varieties. However, China’s instrumentation research and development has been in a tracking state for a long time, basic research has been weak for a long time, and high-end instruments developed by themselves are generally not useful; Instrumentation core components, special materials, and special processes have been ignored for a long time, and products are clustered in the low-end, high-end

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instrumentation, especially cutting-edge scientific instruments, rely heavily on imports. In my opinion, the instrumentation industry still has development bottlenecks in terms of management, technology and industry.

DT602 GJR2911200R1 First, industry management needs to be optimized. At present, China lacks the top-level design and working mechanism of different policies in series of instruments and instruments, and the synergistic force effect is not sufficient. Government departments at all levels have basically not set up a relatively specialized management agency, resulting in the instrument industry information, demand timely and accurate reflection of the government departments of the channels blurred, the management service system scattered, the systematic and integrity of the industry technology development is difficult to guarantee.

Second, the mode of technology research and development needs innovation. Instrument development is a typical intelligence intensive science and technology activity. Instrument enterprises are the core subjects of product innovation and research and development, but China’s instrument enterprises generally lack high-end compound talents, but also face the problem of market and efficiency. Some of the little demand, high cost of research and development, but the country needs the instrument technology and products, whether the enterprise is suitable as the main body of research and development, it is worth discussing.

Third, all links of the industrial chain need coordinated development. The development of instruments is difficult, and the development of high-end scientific instruments is even more difficult, which requires continuous investment of long-term funds in all links of the industrial chain, and it is urgent to build a higher level of third-party test and measurement guarantee system. Instrumentation R & D, manufacturing and application related parties should form a closely linked industrial chain closed loop, large machine enterprises should gather a number of core upstream and downstream enterprises, form an industrial cluster, cultivate a number of local core parts manufacturing enterprises, to solve the bottleneck problem of core parts dependent on imports, Huawei’s industrial layout in the field of 5G and chip is worth learning.