When the Import and Export Deficit Renews a High Record of Domestic Commercial Scientific Instruments
"I saw this and I came back and asked the technicians, how many kinds of additives can we make with these additives without detection methods? After they studied, they told me that more than half is a bit, and the rest will not work for the time being."
A few days ago, at the "2011 China Scientific Instruments Development Annual Conference" held in Beijing, the general manager of a large analytical instrument company in Beijing spoke about the "non-edible substances that may have been illegally added in foods that the Ministry of Health had just reconstituted and published a few days ago." The list of food additives that are easily abused is just like that. On this "black list", 25 out of 47 non-edible substances that may be illegally added have no detection method; of the 22 abuse-prone food additives, 12 of them are blank or simply filled in. "no".
"What about your company?" The hostess of the forum asked the head of a Japanese analytical instrument company.
The answer she received was: "Our technical staff has basically completed the testing of all projects after hard work."
“Half†and “all†truly reflect the gap in the technical level between domestic and foreign companies in the instrument industry.
The deficit has reached new heights
In Asia, China is the largest producer of scientific test instruments in Japan.
At the annual meeting, Yan Zengxuan, the secretary general of China's instrument industry, introduced the development of the domestic scientific test instrument industry in 2010. Compared with the relatively sluggish 2009, the total output value of the instrumentation industry reached 188.9 billion yuan in 2010, an increase of 27% year-on-year. Exports showed a strong recovery momentum, reaching US$14.3 billion, an increase of 34% year-on-year.
However, the total import volume of the industry was even greater, reaching US$29 billion; the growth was also faster, with a year-on-year increase of 39%.
"The deficit in the instrument industry's imports and exports continues to expand, reaching US$14.7 billion and setting another record!" Yan Zeng said.
Among them, the scientific instrument is the deficit "large", amounting to 9.4 billion US dollars, accounting for 64% of the industry's deficit. Moreover, imported instruments basically monopolize the high-end product market and expand to low-end products.
So-called high-end products, the price will naturally not be low.
At a conference last week, the reporter listened to one of Agilent's account managers and said: Once, when he was flying, he met the owner of a chicken farm and talked about increasingly complicated food safety inspection projects. He enthusiastically introduced to this owner how Agilent's instrument performance was superior and how fast the test was performed.
The owner of the chicken farm had a keen interest in their products and asked how much money to buy such an instrument. He answered one or two million.
As a result, the boss stunned and sighed on his thigh: "Ah, how many chickens do I have to sell to get back such a machine?"
After his story was finished, many people couldn't help smiling.
However, the R&D personnel in the domestic instrument and meter industry have heard it, but it is another kind of taste.
Professor Fan Shifu of Tianjin University’s Institute of Precision Instrument told the Scientific Times that “China’s science and technology, economic and social development have constantly put forward urgent requirements for scientific detection and analysis technologies and instruments, and the obvious gap in the performance and quality of Chinese and foreign products has forced users to Spend a lot of money to buy imported instruments for emergency use."
Fan Shifu has been engaged in research and development of instrumentation for several decades. He described the personnel engaged in R&D and production of instruments in the country as "for decades, he has taken a sigh of relief."
"Bang" is weak but strong commercial
Yan Zengxuan summed up the current challenges faced by China's scientific test instrument industry: “Increase in innovation capacity is slow, technology sources are still the bottleneck of development, and the scale and quality of companies restrict the development of the industry. High-end technology is still an important position for developed countries to maintain their advantages.â€
“We have successfully launched the Chang’e II moon detection satellite today. The satellite carries a CCD stereo camera, a laser altimeter, an X-ray spectrometer, a γ-ray spectrometer, a microwave detector, a solar high-energy particle detector, and a solar wind ion detector. Each of them is a high-grade scientific detection and analysis equipment that we have independent intellectual property rights and have reached the world's advanced level.Why can the level and level of China's commercial scientific instruments fail?
"Why can't we get rid of the dilemma of relying on imports?" Fan Shifu issued such questions more than once.
Fan Shifu has been deeply impressed by the fact that the instrument industry has not been valued for many years. He said: In the past, some people thought that "the output value of the instrumentation industry is so small and there are not many users. It is really necessary to use imported products to buy a little better," and even put instruments and instruments into the same management development system as screw nuts. Regardless of major aspects such as industrial policy support, funding, personnel training, and market management, or on specific issues such as import management, tax rate determination, corporate distribution, and media publicity, the instrumentation industry is “essentially uninterestedâ€. The Ugly Duckling can only be struggling and struggling by the industry alone.
"Actually, the development of instrumentation has the characteristic of 'dumping things in both directions'," Fan Shifu said.
A simple example can illustrate the importance of scientific instruments. At the beginning of the implementation of the Human Genome Project, subject to analytical testing techniques, scientists estimated that sequencing would take 30 years to complete. Therefore, people shifted the strategic focus of the plan to the research and development of analytical testing technologies and instruments, and developed 96 capillary electrophoresis sequencers, which increased the sequencing speed by nearly two orders of magnitude, and ultimately reduced the completion time of sequencing tasks to three years.
Ningbo Yongxin Optics Co., Ltd. has participated in the development of the optical lens of the "Chang'e II" four cameras. Mao Lei, general manager of the company, is proud of the R&D process and the final results. However, when interviewed by a reporter from the "Scientific Times," Mao Lei admits that compared with the 1980s, the technological gap between China's instrument industry and the developed countries has not only not been narrowed, but has also grown.
According to industry insiders, this is due to the fact that after the reform and opening up, the development of instrument and instrument companies in China has experienced a period of low tide, and the operating mechanism has not been able to meet the requirements of market economic development. The entire industry has even contracted.
Wang Jialong and Deng Aiqun of the China Instrument and Instrument Association concluded that in the process of reforming state-owned enterprises, the original scientific research system was broken, but new systems and channels were not established. Loss of old corporate technicians, aging products, although the business direction has improved, but the ability of scientific and technological innovation is still not enough. Although a batch of private enterprises that have been reformed and are operating flexibly are becoming new highlights, most of them have not yet mastered advanced core technologies. The strength of scientific research is weak, and innovation results rarely compete with large foreign companies.
Compared with the high investment and high returns in the field of analytical instrumentation in foreign countries, the R&D strength of China's instrument industry is weak. Most companies invest insufficient research resources and funds, and human and financial resources cannot support sufficient long-term investment in technological innovation.
Wang Jialong and Deng Aiqun pointed out that taking China's laboratory equipment manufacturers as an example, there are only 5 companies with annual sales exceeding 100 million yuan, and there is no flagship company with an overall strength exceeding 1 billion yuan. Foreign scientific instrument company's development investment accounts for about 10% of sales, while our country only accounts for 2% to 3%. In general, the combination of independent innovation achievements and applications is not much. There are many scientific research achievements in the institutions of higher learning, but the practicality is poor, especially the depth and intensity of the study are not enough, so the secondary development of the large amount of work, the cost is high, resulting in relatively low conversion of instrument technology results.
How to develop
"The great development of scientific instruments in China is something that we have been looking forward to for decades." More than 80-year-old Lu Yuzhen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, eagerly said at the annual meeting.
Fan Shifu believes that to completely change the backwardness of domestic scientific instruments, we must first start with "people." He pointed out: "The problem of talent shortage is particularly prominent for the instrumentation industry with a high proportion of innovation and multi-discipline."
Fan Zhiqiang, general manager of Shanghai Precision Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., emphasized that companies should pay attention to the potential of existing employees because the system may obscure the talents of employees. The company has a long history and was once hailed as the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the south of China's instrument industry. "A lot of employees do not see a bright spot in our system. After they go out, they will have a lively life. Therefore, they must first dig three feet inside to find someone," Fan Zhiqiang said.
Lu Zhenzhen suggested that industry associations take measures to promote the establishment of one or two institutions specializing in the training of medium-sized professionals in scientific instruments manufacturing.
Lu Yuzhen also suggested that domestic enterprises should pay attention to the guarantee and development of existing markets, and not to transfer market direction too quickly. “This is an important measure for accumulating strength.â€
Gao Hongbin, deputy general manager of Beijing Nake Analytical Instrument Co., Ltd. expressed deep support for this. “Our company has long focused on the field of metal material testing and has a group of highly qualified people who have stayed in the company.â€
Yan Zengxuan believes that it is necessary to promote the scientific concept of innovation in the industry, to break the duplication of development and production in low-end technology and products, and the unfavorable situation of low-price competition, and to participate in the market competition of high-end products.
Fan Shifu also called for increased national support, the establishment of policies and regulations that encourage innovation, the implementation of market regulations that regulate the market, standardizing market operations, encouraging quality and price, and suppressing price competition.
Fan Shifu also suggested that the state adjust the layout of instrumentation and accelerate the construction of instruments and meters in the Midwest. At present, the layout of China's instrumentation industry is irrational, the coastal areas are densely congested, the middle and western regions are sparsely evacuated, and R&D or product duplication occurs from time to time, but they do not work together, but cancel each other out. In the past, the mid-west of China has had a glorious history of the development of instrumentation.
Fan Shifu believes that he can start with Xi'an, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Yinchuan, and Kunming. “Every place has a foundation and there are also requirements, manpower and material resources, and technological conditions for the development of high-tech instrumentation.â€
In recent years, the appeal of the instrumentation industry for many years has initially received a response from the government.
The Department of Equipment Industry Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Han Bank, pointed out at the meeting that during the “12th Five-Year Plan†period, China’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry focused on the development of aviation, aerospace, high-speed railways, marine engineering equipment, and intelligent manufacturing equipment will In succession, many policies were introduced to be tilted. "The field of smart manufacturing equipment mainly includes the instrumentation industry."
Last year, the strategic alliance for technological innovation in the Yangtze River Delta Scientific Instruments Industry was formally approved and became the strategic alliance for the pilot industry technology innovation of the six ministries and commissions of the country. This is an emerging technology innovation and cooperation organization formed by 11 leading companies in the Yangtze River Delta region, 8 universities and 6 research institutes, and 2 industry associations. Fan Shifu believes that it is the innovation of science and technology development that should be supported and promoted from the “seven or eight guns each playing†to the collection team, to complement each other and work together to overcome difficulties.
In addition, China's special pilot project for the development of major national scientific research equipment and equipment that was launched in April this year will also encourage and foster the development of exploratory scientific research instruments with original ideas, and will focus on supporting the development of original scientific research equipment.
At the 9th China International Scientific Instruments and Laboratory Equipment Exhibition held at the same time as the annual conference, some domestic manufacturers made a bold statement in a prominent position - "to be the world's top provider of analytical testing solutions."
Fan Shifu also expressed optimism about the future of the instrument industry. He believes that as long as the support is in place and the guidance is strengthened, it will not take too long. "The industry and users can be elated."
A few days ago, at the "2011 China Scientific Instruments Development Annual Conference" held in Beijing, the general manager of a large analytical instrument company in Beijing spoke about the "non-edible substances that may have been illegally added in foods that the Ministry of Health had just reconstituted and published a few days ago." The list of food additives that are easily abused is just like that. On this "black list", 25 out of 47 non-edible substances that may be illegally added have no detection method; of the 22 abuse-prone food additives, 12 of them are blank or simply filled in. "no".
"What about your company?" The hostess of the forum asked the head of a Japanese analytical instrument company.
The answer she received was: "Our technical staff has basically completed the testing of all projects after hard work."
“Half†and “all†truly reflect the gap in the technical level between domestic and foreign companies in the instrument industry.
The deficit has reached new heights
In Asia, China is the largest producer of scientific test instruments in Japan.
At the annual meeting, Yan Zengxuan, the secretary general of China's instrument industry, introduced the development of the domestic scientific test instrument industry in 2010. Compared with the relatively sluggish 2009, the total output value of the instrumentation industry reached 188.9 billion yuan in 2010, an increase of 27% year-on-year. Exports showed a strong recovery momentum, reaching US$14.3 billion, an increase of 34% year-on-year.
However, the total import volume of the industry was even greater, reaching US$29 billion; the growth was also faster, with a year-on-year increase of 39%.
"The deficit in the instrument industry's imports and exports continues to expand, reaching US$14.7 billion and setting another record!" Yan Zeng said.
Among them, the scientific instrument is the deficit "large", amounting to 9.4 billion US dollars, accounting for 64% of the industry's deficit. Moreover, imported instruments basically monopolize the high-end product market and expand to low-end products.
So-called high-end products, the price will naturally not be low.
At a conference last week, the reporter listened to one of Agilent's account managers and said: Once, when he was flying, he met the owner of a chicken farm and talked about increasingly complicated food safety inspection projects. He enthusiastically introduced to this owner how Agilent's instrument performance was superior and how fast the test was performed.
The owner of the chicken farm had a keen interest in their products and asked how much money to buy such an instrument. He answered one or two million.
As a result, the boss stunned and sighed on his thigh: "Ah, how many chickens do I have to sell to get back such a machine?"
After his story was finished, many people couldn't help smiling.
However, the R&D personnel in the domestic instrument and meter industry have heard it, but it is another kind of taste.
Professor Fan Shifu of Tianjin University’s Institute of Precision Instrument told the Scientific Times that “China’s science and technology, economic and social development have constantly put forward urgent requirements for scientific detection and analysis technologies and instruments, and the obvious gap in the performance and quality of Chinese and foreign products has forced users to Spend a lot of money to buy imported instruments for emergency use."
Fan Shifu has been engaged in research and development of instrumentation for several decades. He described the personnel engaged in R&D and production of instruments in the country as "for decades, he has taken a sigh of relief."
"Bang" is weak but strong commercial
Yan Zengxuan summed up the current challenges faced by China's scientific test instrument industry: “Increase in innovation capacity is slow, technology sources are still the bottleneck of development, and the scale and quality of companies restrict the development of the industry. High-end technology is still an important position for developed countries to maintain their advantages.â€
“We have successfully launched the Chang’e II moon detection satellite today. The satellite carries a CCD stereo camera, a laser altimeter, an X-ray spectrometer, a γ-ray spectrometer, a microwave detector, a solar high-energy particle detector, and a solar wind ion detector. Each of them is a high-grade scientific detection and analysis equipment that we have independent intellectual property rights and have reached the world's advanced level.Why can the level and level of China's commercial scientific instruments fail?
"Why can't we get rid of the dilemma of relying on imports?" Fan Shifu issued such questions more than once.
Fan Shifu has been deeply impressed by the fact that the instrument industry has not been valued for many years. He said: In the past, some people thought that "the output value of the instrumentation industry is so small and there are not many users. It is really necessary to use imported products to buy a little better," and even put instruments and instruments into the same management development system as screw nuts. Regardless of major aspects such as industrial policy support, funding, personnel training, and market management, or on specific issues such as import management, tax rate determination, corporate distribution, and media publicity, the instrumentation industry is “essentially uninterestedâ€. The Ugly Duckling can only be struggling and struggling by the industry alone.
"Actually, the development of instrumentation has the characteristic of 'dumping things in both directions'," Fan Shifu said.
A simple example can illustrate the importance of scientific instruments. At the beginning of the implementation of the Human Genome Project, subject to analytical testing techniques, scientists estimated that sequencing would take 30 years to complete. Therefore, people shifted the strategic focus of the plan to the research and development of analytical testing technologies and instruments, and developed 96 capillary electrophoresis sequencers, which increased the sequencing speed by nearly two orders of magnitude, and ultimately reduced the completion time of sequencing tasks to three years.
Ningbo Yongxin Optics Co., Ltd. has participated in the development of the optical lens of the "Chang'e II" four cameras. Mao Lei, general manager of the company, is proud of the R&D process and the final results. However, when interviewed by a reporter from the "Scientific Times," Mao Lei admits that compared with the 1980s, the technological gap between China's instrument industry and the developed countries has not only not been narrowed, but has also grown.
According to industry insiders, this is due to the fact that after the reform and opening up, the development of instrument and instrument companies in China has experienced a period of low tide, and the operating mechanism has not been able to meet the requirements of market economic development. The entire industry has even contracted.
Wang Jialong and Deng Aiqun of the China Instrument and Instrument Association concluded that in the process of reforming state-owned enterprises, the original scientific research system was broken, but new systems and channels were not established. Loss of old corporate technicians, aging products, although the business direction has improved, but the ability of scientific and technological innovation is still not enough. Although a batch of private enterprises that have been reformed and are operating flexibly are becoming new highlights, most of them have not yet mastered advanced core technologies. The strength of scientific research is weak, and innovation results rarely compete with large foreign companies.
Compared with the high investment and high returns in the field of analytical instrumentation in foreign countries, the R&D strength of China's instrument industry is weak. Most companies invest insufficient research resources and funds, and human and financial resources cannot support sufficient long-term investment in technological innovation.
Wang Jialong and Deng Aiqun pointed out that taking China's laboratory equipment manufacturers as an example, there are only 5 companies with annual sales exceeding 100 million yuan, and there is no flagship company with an overall strength exceeding 1 billion yuan. Foreign scientific instrument company's development investment accounts for about 10% of sales, while our country only accounts for 2% to 3%. In general, the combination of independent innovation achievements and applications is not much. There are many scientific research achievements in the institutions of higher learning, but the practicality is poor, especially the depth and intensity of the study are not enough, so the secondary development of the large amount of work, the cost is high, resulting in relatively low conversion of instrument technology results.
How to develop
"The great development of scientific instruments in China is something that we have been looking forward to for decades." More than 80-year-old Lu Yuzhen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, eagerly said at the annual meeting.
Fan Shifu believes that to completely change the backwardness of domestic scientific instruments, we must first start with "people." He pointed out: "The problem of talent shortage is particularly prominent for the instrumentation industry with a high proportion of innovation and multi-discipline."
Fan Zhiqiang, general manager of Shanghai Precision Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., emphasized that companies should pay attention to the potential of existing employees because the system may obscure the talents of employees. The company has a long history and was once hailed as the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the south of China's instrument industry. "A lot of employees do not see a bright spot in our system. After they go out, they will have a lively life. Therefore, they must first dig three feet inside to find someone," Fan Zhiqiang said.
Lu Zhenzhen suggested that industry associations take measures to promote the establishment of one or two institutions specializing in the training of medium-sized professionals in scientific instruments manufacturing.
Lu Yuzhen also suggested that domestic enterprises should pay attention to the guarantee and development of existing markets, and not to transfer market direction too quickly. “This is an important measure for accumulating strength.â€
Gao Hongbin, deputy general manager of Beijing Nake Analytical Instrument Co., Ltd. expressed deep support for this. “Our company has long focused on the field of metal material testing and has a group of highly qualified people who have stayed in the company.â€
Yan Zengxuan believes that it is necessary to promote the scientific concept of innovation in the industry, to break the duplication of development and production in low-end technology and products, and the unfavorable situation of low-price competition, and to participate in the market competition of high-end products.
Fan Shifu also called for increased national support, the establishment of policies and regulations that encourage innovation, the implementation of market regulations that regulate the market, standardizing market operations, encouraging quality and price, and suppressing price competition.
Fan Shifu also suggested that the state adjust the layout of instrumentation and accelerate the construction of instruments and meters in the Midwest. At present, the layout of China's instrumentation industry is irrational, the coastal areas are densely congested, the middle and western regions are sparsely evacuated, and R&D or product duplication occurs from time to time, but they do not work together, but cancel each other out. In the past, the mid-west of China has had a glorious history of the development of instrumentation.
Fan Shifu believes that he can start with Xi'an, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Yinchuan, and Kunming. “Every place has a foundation and there are also requirements, manpower and material resources, and technological conditions for the development of high-tech instrumentation.â€
In recent years, the appeal of the instrumentation industry for many years has initially received a response from the government.
The Department of Equipment Industry Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Han Bank, pointed out at the meeting that during the “12th Five-Year Plan†period, China’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry focused on the development of aviation, aerospace, high-speed railways, marine engineering equipment, and intelligent manufacturing equipment will In succession, many policies were introduced to be tilted. "The field of smart manufacturing equipment mainly includes the instrumentation industry."
Last year, the strategic alliance for technological innovation in the Yangtze River Delta Scientific Instruments Industry was formally approved and became the strategic alliance for the pilot industry technology innovation of the six ministries and commissions of the country. This is an emerging technology innovation and cooperation organization formed by 11 leading companies in the Yangtze River Delta region, 8 universities and 6 research institutes, and 2 industry associations. Fan Shifu believes that it is the innovation of science and technology development that should be supported and promoted from the “seven or eight guns each playing†to the collection team, to complement each other and work together to overcome difficulties.
In addition, China's special pilot project for the development of major national scientific research equipment and equipment that was launched in April this year will also encourage and foster the development of exploratory scientific research instruments with original ideas, and will focus on supporting the development of original scientific research equipment.
At the 9th China International Scientific Instruments and Laboratory Equipment Exhibition held at the same time as the annual conference, some domestic manufacturers made a bold statement in a prominent position - "to be the world's top provider of analytical testing solutions."
Fan Shifu also expressed optimism about the future of the instrument industry. He believes that as long as the support is in place and the guidance is strengthened, it will not take too long. "The industry and users can be elated."
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