The instrument originally refers to the precision equipment specially used to measure the pressure, flow and temperature of water, gas and oil, including thousands of varieties of products. In the last 20 years of the last century, with the increasing development of microelectronics technology and communication technology, high-tech test and measurement instruments have become an integral part of the instrument industry. Relevant data show that the domestic instrument industry in the early 1980s not only completed the layout, construction, production and development, and the products basically meet the needs of all aspects of the country. However, with the deepening of reform and opening up, foreign instrument products began to flood into the Chinese market, which opened a new scene of competition and cooperation between Chinese enterprises and foreign enterprises in advance.
However, the result of Sino-foreign cooperation in the past decade is not ideal. Recently, experts in China’s instrumentation industry pointed out that at present, most of China’s instrumentation products are medium and low level, and the production status is unsatisfactory. High-end, large instruments and equipment almost all rely on imports, mid-range products and many key components, foreign companies occupy more than 60% of the domestic market share. Domestic analytical instruments account for less than three-thousandths of the global market. The gap between domestic instruments and imported products is significant, where is the reason? According to relevant analysis, in addition to the overall quality of domestic enterprises’ products lagging behind imported products, the lack of policy protection is also a factor that causes imported products to be unique in the domestic market.

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The deeper internal reason is that since the early 1990s, in the field of high-tech automation instruments and systems, scientific testing instruments, sensor components and other fields, the competition is mainly introduced, joint venture products. In the process of introduction, joint venture and localization, domestic enterprises lack of research on the key technologies of products, and can not independently upgrade the products, and the phenomenon of repeated introduction is serious. China has joined the W TO, the tariffs on instruments will be further reduced, and foreign enterprises will speed up their entry into the Chinese market. In order to win the competition with foreign enterprises, Chinese enterprises must do a good job of “technology” and speed up the pace of their technological progress.

After China’s accession to the WTO, it will bring further shocks and opportunities to the instrumentation industry. With the general reduction of tariffs after WTO entry, various electronic components and basic materials required by the instrumentation industry can face greater choices in terms of variety and price, which has a positive impact on domestic enterprises to reduce product costs, update and replace existing products and participate in fair competition in the entire market; It is also of great help in attracting foreign investment and foreign technical cooperation. In the face of the current export has formed a scale and advantages of low-grade products, WTO entry is a good opportunity to expand the international market.

Looking back on the 20-year journey of China’s instrument industry, it will be an inspiration and a reference experience for how to grasp the opportunities and meet the challenges after entering the WTO. If we say that we are accumulating strength and learning lessons before, then today after joining W TO, China’s instrumentation industry is undoubtedly officially standing on the starting line and starting the final sprint. The author believes that as long as we make full use of all favorable conditions, China’s instrumentation industry will be the final winner in this race.