As we all know, the world has entered the information age, water meter information technology, science and technology for the rapid development of key technologies. Well-known scientist Qian pointed out: "Information technology, including measurement techniques, computer technology and communications technology. Measurement technology is the foundation." Rapid development of information technology, in a huge industry, a result of new information, the information industry has become the world's attention the focus of economic development of leading industries. This means that the basis of measurement techniques and sources of information technology, instrumentation industry is an important part of the information industry. It goes without saying, instrumentation and measurement, and control of today's information age, in order to promote science and technology, and how the status of the country's important economic development.

First, the status, role

With the instrumentation and measurement control of the important status and role has received attention in recent years, attached great importance to the community, the state has taken a series of important measures to accelerate development. These initiatives deserve special mention: the

In March 2001 at the Fourth National People's Congress, on the seventh meeting said: "The country's economic and social development in the Tenth Five-Year Plan", and explicitly suggested that "an important position in the development of instruments." National Development Framework , tools, and in an important position, is the first time since the founding. Then, the State Planning Commission, trade technology and many other ministries, the Commission listed a specific amount, use a lot of financial support for equipment development.

In 2005, the National Development and Reform Commission formally issued an equipment manufacturing industry, "the revitalization of a number of opinions" the speed of the various departments of the 16 selected key development areas of special legislation in order to support the development of, first of all 11 major project is the automation of control systems and precision test instruments.

In 2006, the formulation of "national long-term scientific and technological Development Plan", involving instrumentation and measurement and control development projects.

In April 2008, science and technology, development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education and the Chinese Association jointly issued a "innovative methods of work, to strengthen a number of observations," official launch of innovative approaches to the work of the National-inch document, clear and innovative methods, including innovative thinking, innovative approach and the three factors, innovative tools, innovative tools, mainly refers to scientific instruments to promote technological innovation. The important role of scientific instruments has been further strengthening the research and development of more effective support.

In addition, 863 plans, especially in the space program and other national scientific and technical aspects of the support and development plan for the development of measuring instruments of control have also been placed in an important position. In this very favorable situation is that, in recent years, China's instrumentation and measurement and control has been developed rapidly.

Second, industry overview

Growth rate of more than 20% 4 consecutive years

Instrument industry is China's rapid and steady growth of one of the industries, but in machine-building industry in 13 industries, instrumentation industry does not belong in the past four years, the highest growth of the industry growth rate of 20% ~ 27%.

Another feature of instrumentation industry is relatively large import and export of machinery industry in 13, one of the industry's largest trade deficit. In 2005, China's total export value and export industry, instrumentation, 19.359 billion U.S. dollars, of which 14.014 billion U.S. dollars of imports, up 15.7%, export 52万四千五百 points Ling Ling million, compared with growth of 30.8%.

Throughout the industry, electrical and instrumentation industry, rapid development of structural adjustment and transformation industries, a considerable number of countries of state-owned enterprises have been transferred to private, foreign-invested enterprises are also very active in many well-known multinational companies are investing in foreign instruments or expand in produced in China. Statistics by type of economic structure, industry sales of Chinese enterprises (including state-owned, state-controlled and private enterprises) accounted for about 55.12%, profit accounted for 54.59%, and the rest foreign-invested enterprises.

Instrument in Chinese industry also has some cause for concern, first of all, China is a developing country, instrumentation industry, compared with developed countries, 10 to 15 years gap. However, in developing countries, China is the instrumentation industry, the largest and most complete, integrated the most powerful country.

Second, China is a great demand on the instrument, is the world's fastest growth. Instruments in the world economic growth rate of 3% to 4%, China has achieved four consecutive years more than 20% annual growth rate of some products are one-tenth of one-third of the world.

Third, at present, instrumentation industry, competition and foreign direct industry, foreign investment in China has now entered its third phase. The first phase of joint ventures and technology exports are mainly 20th century, 90 years ago, and converted into the second stage has now become a wholly owned, and China's outstanding businesses, primarily in the third phase of the merger, joint venture enterprises.

Fourth, medium and low number of products, scale advantages and international competitiveness. As an ordinary digital multimeter and other products, the world's total output, household electricity meters 50% of the world's total production capacity of more than. At present, China has become the watt-hour meter, microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, pressure gauge, such as electricity production and exports, the export of high-grade container inspection equipment also began water meter, gas meter, optical components break.

3, Technical Status

Most of the multinational occupation of the high-end market

Species in various categories, covering a very broad area, instrument products. In accordance with the country's new economic accordance with the classification criteria, instrumentation products include 20 categories, can be used as industrial automation, instrumentation and control systems, scientific test equipment, used equipment and special tools for four summary. Among them, the national economy and major equipment, on behalf of industry standards with the greatest influence pillar industries, is the field of automatic control systems and instrumentation of the backbone, the key the most advanced testing equipment 2.

Automation control systems and field instrumentation backbone

According to product technology, source and market conditions, automatic control system and the backbone of the level of field instrument can be divided into the following four categories.

The first category, commonly used in temperature measurement, manometry, flow, display and control instruments product regulation. These products are mostly middle and low, product and market adaptability to enhance, improve research and development, Chinese enterprises have the ability to withstand.

The second category, the last 80s and early 90s has been made in technology and product introduction. Chinese enterprises to master the core of these products, manufacturing technology, stable production, the product has a certain market share. However, due to the maturity of a new generation of products with foreign influx into the market, so China's current products mainly used in small and medium sized projects.

The third category, our self-developed high-profile products, product representatives, such as distributed control system (DCS) and electromagnetic flow meters. These products and foreign products and functions of the basic properties are close to have a higher market share and improve. However, the application objects is still small and medium sized projects, mainly for large-scale projects, primarily non-critical facilities, non-master control system and non-critical points.

The fourth category, with national priorities, project-based, high-profile products, the use of large-scale projects. At present, the use of foreign-invested enterprises of production and imported products, most of the projects, such as large-scale distributed control system, PLC, nuclear power digital control systems and high-precision pressure instrumentation / differential pressure transmitter, large-scale pressure / abrasion / impact resistance regulating valve , mass flowmeter, ultrasonic flow meters and other products, and the use of less technically difficult, specialized and powerful species.

Precision measuring instruments

China's current development and precision test instruments, the international century, the early nineties to achieve the overall technical level of production, mainly including chromatography instruments, spectrometers, electrochemical instrumentation, research optical microscope, scanning electron microscopy, electronic scales, centrifuges, electronic universal testing machines, ultrasonic flaw detector, X-ray detection machine, electronic theodolite, precision electronic measuring instruments. Such as microwave plasma spectrometer, portable photoionization gas chromatograph, automatic atomic absorption spectrophotometer, atomic fluorescence spectrophotometer, laser interference measuring instrument of some products close to the current international advanced level of similar products, technical level, a period instrument , automatic intelligent ultrasonic testing machine, optical microscopy, automated remote diagnostics.

At present, China's production to meet the research, production and social aspects of the general demand, but need to rely mainly on high-end imports.