Although the industry started relatively late, over the past two decades, China has initially formed a relatively complete system for the production, research, and marketing of microcomputer relay protection testers. In order to intensify the development of the instrumentation industry during the "11th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, relevant national departments will concentrate efforts on adjusting product structure, organizing production according to international advanced standards, and promoting industrial upgrading. Priority will be given to developing a batch of key products that serve economic development, national economic construction, and technological transformation, and to supporting a batch of replacement products with promising market prospects, large import-export deficits, high technical levels, and strong driving effects on the industry. According to senior industry experts, the following eight categories of instrumentation will be the national development priorities: 2. Prospects of China's instrumentation industry during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. Instrumentation refers to devices or equipment used to detect, measure, observe, calculate various physical quantities, material compositions, physical property parameters, etc., including vacuum leak detectors, pressure gauges, length measuring instruments, microscopes, multipliers, etc. In a broad sense, instrumentation can also have functions such as automatic control, alarm, signal transmission, and data processing. For example, pneumatic regulating instruments and electric regulating instruments used in automatic control of industrial production processes, as well as distributed control systems, all belong to instrumentation. In the context of human society entering the knowledge economy era and the rapid development of information technology, instrumentation and its measurement and control technology are increasingly widely applied, providing a good opportunity for the rapid development of the instrumentation industry. After nearly ten years of construction and development, China's instrumentation industry has initially formed an industrial system with relatively complete product categories, a certain production scale, and development capabilities, becoming the second largest instrumentation producer in Asia after Japan. Source: It is expected that from now to the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the market prospects of China's instrumentation industry can be analyzed from the following aspects: 1. Environmental protection instrumentation. Environmental protection instrumentation is mainly used in environmental quality monitoring and pollution source monitoring. Given China's specific national conditions, environmental protection mainly addresses the strategic and overall ecological pollution problems of water environment and atmospheric environment. With energy conservation, emission reduction, and low-carbon economy becoming national long-term policies, the potential market scale for environmental monitoring instrumentation, sampling systems, and automated control system products for atmospheric and water environments amounts to billions to tens of billions of yuan. 2. Microcomputer relay protection testers. After the State Grid Corporation of China proposed to vigorously promote the principle of taking UHV power grids as the leader, coordinating the development of power grids at all levels, and improving smart grids, and also clarified that the construction of power user electricity information collection systems is an important part of China's smart grid construction, the construction of smart grids has developed gradually. Grid construction is a global, long-term, and gradual rigid market, providing significant development opportunities for microcomputer relay protection testers. Meanwhile, India's power industry is developing rapidly, with a large population and relatively high demand for electricity meters. The market demand for electricity meters in other Southeast Asian countries and some developing countries will also increase. This will bring opportunities for Chinese electricity meter enterprises to expand into foreign markets. 3. Industrial automation instrumentation. Industrial automation instrumentation focuses on the development of main control system devices based on fieldbus technology, intelligent instruments, and special and dedicated automation instruments. From the perspective of market demand, China's industrial automation market demand is increasingly strong. According to the prediction of the China Instrument and Control Society, by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan, the market demand for industrial automation will exceed 100 billion yuan. On the other hand, with the significant increase in national attention to people's livelihood, some demands related to people's livelihood have also been put on the agenda, such as food safety, detection of milk powder and gutter oil; drug safety, detection of problematic vaccines; sudden accidents and climate monitoring, detection and alarm of earthquakes and tsunamis. These dangerous events also impose new requirements and market demands on instrumentation. 3. The development pace of the instrumentation industry has not slowed down due to the financial storm. The instrumentation industry has maintained a high economic operation trend for six consecutive years. Although the global economy has slowed down due to the financial storm, from the current situation, the growth rate of the instrumentation industry has not slowed down. Dong Jingchen, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Instrument and Control Society, pointed out: "There are mainly two reasons. First, the national economy is still operating at a high level; according to past experience, when GDP growth is above 10%, the growth rate of the instrumentation industry is between 26% and 30%. Second, the impact of national macro-control on the instrumentation industry has a lag period. Instruments are usually delivered at the later stage of projects, so the reduction in investment due to macro-control policies will not have a significant impact on this year's instrumentation industry." Foreign-funded instrumentation enterprises have begun to change their original investment methods dominated by wholly-owned enterprises. This change is mainly manifested in two aspects: first, they have begun to focus on acquiring and merging excellent domestic production enterprises; second, the proportion of commissioned production is continuously increasing. It is not easy for foreign enterprises to acquire excellent domestic enterprises. Currently, the government's support for the instrumentation industry is increasing. Only last year and the first half of this year, the Ministry of Science and Technology has set up 6 research topics on instruments, with government financial support exceeding 100 million yuan. This unprecedented support has provided broader development space for excellent domestic instrument manufacturing enterprises. Source: As an important part of China's instrumentation industry, analytical instruments have still maintained a good development momentum in the context of the global financial crisis. The rapid growth of China's analytical instrument market is closely related to the national attention to food safety, ecological environment protection, disease prevention and control, product quality supervision, production safety and major natural disaster monitoring, as well as basic research. In 2009, the total industrial output value and industrial sales output value of analytical instruments, including industrial process analytical instruments, laboratory analytical instruments, and special instruments for environmental monitoring, maintained steady growth, but the year-on-year growth rate was significantly lower than that in 2008. Except for environmental monitoring instruments, which maintained slight growth in export value, the other two maintained negative growth. Among them, the output value of special instruments for environmental monitoring exceeded 9.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.85%, and the sales value reached 9.121 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.82%. Data shows that in the analytical instrument industry, special instruments for environmental monitoring grew the fastest, and the industrial process analytical instrument sub-industry also maintained a growth rate higher than the industry average, while the growth rate of laboratory analytical instruments was significantly lower than the industry average. This is mainly because the country has included environmental protection and energy conservation and emission reduction in the medium and long-term development plan, and has introduced some mandatory and incentive policies to promote the application of environmental monitoring instruments. Under the situation where the overall import and export of the national instrumentation industry showed negative growth, the import of analytical instruments maintained growth, while exports declined year-on-year. Among them, the import of industrial process analytical instruments was 448 million US dollars, and the export was 338 million US dollars; the import of laboratory analytical instruments was nearly 2.7 billion US dollars, and the export was 600 million US dollars. The overall import-export deficit of the national instrumentation industry was 10.2 billion US dollars, a decrease of 170 million US dollars compared with 2008, and the import-export deficit of analytical instruments was 5.6 billion US dollars. The main reason for the large import of analytical instruments is that most of the high-end analytical instruments currently in use in China are still imported. Due to the high technical requirements, large R&D investment, and long R&D cycle of high-end analytical instruments, it is a huge challenge for domestic enterprises. Although high-tech enterprises have developed rapidly in recent years, domestic enterprises still generally lack proprietary technology, lack original innovation capability for high-end products, and have severely insufficient R&D investment, lacking systematic and long-term continuity in work, resulting in insufficient development capability of high-end analytical instruments for domestic enterprises. The connection between scientific research achievements of research institutes and universities and industry is not smooth, and in the short term, they cannot produce high-end analytical instruments that meet domestic market demand. The reduction in exports of analytical instruments is mainly due to the outbreak of the international financial crisis since the second half of 2008, the sharp deterioration of domestic and foreign economic situations, and the decrease in foreign demand. In 2009, under the environment of overall slowdown in the growth of the analytical instrument industry and year-on-year decline in exports, a few leading enterprises still maintained strong development momentum. Such enterprises, against the backdrop of the global decline in the analytical testing industry, achieved gratifying sales growth rates of 44%, 30%, and 24.4% respectively. In particular, Focused Photonics still consolidated its position as the market share leader with an absolute advantage. This is mainly because they seized the important opportunity of the country and governments at all levels attaching importance to the development of instrumentation, attached importance to technological innovation, continuously increased R&D investment, developed analytical measurement instruments with independent intellectual property rights that meet market demand, and obtained wide application, achieving significant social and economic benefits. The long-term situation where high-end analytical instruments were almost 100% occupied by imports has forced domestic analytical instrument enterprises to change their original R&D and production models and has begun to gradually develop towards the production of high-end analytical instruments. With the continuously optimized market environment and the entry of more foreign analytical instrument enterprises, competition in the domestic analytical instrument market will become more intense. Therefore, domestic analytical instrument manufacturers must go against the current in a market environment where crises and opportunities coexist, increase investment, continuously innovate, overcome difficulties on the path of scientific and technological development, and strive towards world-class levels. The reliability and stability of domestic instrumentation and automation systems have a large gap compared with foreign products. The reliability problem has shaken the confidence of key industries such as metallurgy, electric power, and petrochemicals in domestic products, resulting in the slowest progress in the localization of instrumentation and automation systems in the national localization work of major technical equipment. This has greatly affected the improvement of the technical level and product quality of the equipment manufacturing industry. Stability and reliability issues have become a serious obstacle restricting the development and technological innovation of China's instrumentation industry. Reliability work is a comprehensive task. It needs to start from a systematic perspective, maximize the elimination and control of various unreliable factors in the entire product life cycle, maximize the detection of defects caused by unreliable factors, and achieve the established reliability goals with the least cost and time. It involves various aspects such as product performance effectiveness, functional safety, service life, maintainability, environmental adaptability, and total life cycle cost. Reliability work requires systematic theoretical research, long-term data accumulation, meticulous experimental demonstration, and extensive investigation and analysis. (To be continued) Source: Statement of BJX.com.cn: This information is reproduced from cooperative media or other websites of BJX.com.cn. 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