Focus on the status quo of instrumentation industry and forecast trends

At present, China's environmental monitoring equipment is far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety, quantity, performance, and quality. Most of the monitoring stations in the country have low technology and equipment, single functions, poor stability and reliability, and they need to be replaced.

China's environmental monitoring instruments are mostly medium and low-end products produced by small and medium-sized enterprises. The technology level is generally low, the product types are small, the failure rate is high, and the service life is short. This results in low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, inaccurate monitoring data, and inability to promptly reflect the status of pollutant discharge. This not only affects the scientific decision-making of environmental management and the seriousness of law enforcement, but also easily dampens the enthusiasm of enterprises for pollution control and environmental protection. For example, various pollution source emission on-line monitoring systems do not solve the measurement problems brought about by high temperature, high humidity, and high particulate matter content. The online smoke and dust automatic monitoring system is basically still blank in China, which greatly limits the total amount of smoke and dust. The implementation of the control system.

The research and development capabilities are low, and the on-line monitoring equipment has a relatively low system production capacity and cannot meet the needs of the market. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments, and automatic monitoring systems are mostly imported from abroad. Therefore, domestic equipment occupies a small share. In China's domestic instruments, the occupancy rate of atmospheric monitoring instruments is about 70%, and the occupancy rate of water quality monitoring instruments is about 60%. Most of these instruments are in the level of the international 1980s and cannot meet actual needs; the instruments required by sewage treatment plants The instrument is still basically imported. The R&D expenses of large foreign companies generally account for 5-10% of the company's total sales, while those of the better ones in China are only 1%, and the product life cycle is far greater than that of developed countries.

Poor business management capabilities, labor productivity is not high, tend to be assimilation. The reason is that relevant experts believe that the first is the issue of large-scale state-owned enterprises' operation mechanism and they do not play a good role; second, small companies flock to the top, lack technology, lack funds, repeat at low levels, and the quality and performance of the instrument cannot be improved. Contrary to imported instruments, the third is the lack of a close cooperation mechanism between research institutes and enterprises and the inability to quickly realize industrialization; Fourth, the government's investment in developing and developing environmental science instruments and insufficient investment in venture capital.

There is a contradiction between supply and demand in the market, and there is a shortage of products with high technological content that cannot meet strict environmental management needs. Taking the ambient air quality automatic monitoring system as an example, according to the analysis of the current market capacity, it is expected that the supply capacity during China's “10th Five-Year Plan” period will be insufficient, and some systems will still need to rely on imports. At present, the environmental monitoring instrument industry is small in scale, backward in technology, and disorderly in competition. Problems such as unstable technical performance and low level of integration have led to the oversupply of middle and low-end products.

The automatic online monitoring market needs to be expanded. According to the analysis of relevant experts, the reasons for the slow development of the automatic online monitoring equipment market are: Firstly, the importance of localities is not enough; second, the quality of equipment and equipment is not ideal enough, the service is not in place, and it cannot compete with foreign products; and third, irregular operation and unfair competition cause The market is unable to develop healthily and it is difficult to attract foreign advanced technology. Fourth, there is resistance to the installation of automatic monitoring equipment and lack of legal support.

It is necessary to develop environmental monitoring instruments that suit China's national conditions. Relevant experts believe that environmental monitoring equipment suitable for China's national conditions should have: cheaper, lower maintenance costs; can be used under harsh conditions; easy to maintain operation, intelligent, and strong anti-interference ability. Some monitoring instruments with high intelligence, high stability and high precision are also the development trend of environmental protection instruments in China.