Take advantage of the “new infrastructure” opportunity to leap forward development

AAP3798102-00130 China Industry News: In the first quarter of 2020, due to the impact of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the profits of most of China’s manufacturing enterprises declined or even lost money year-on-year, and the country timely proposed to further develop “new infrastructure”. In your opinion, what impact has the epidemic brought to the instrumentation industry? How can instrument companies use the opportunity of “new infrastructure” to break through difficulties and boost performance?

Ouyang Jinsong: The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the instrumentation industry is mainly reflected in two aspects: industry structure and enterprise operation.

The epidemic has exposed the structural and management weaknesses of China’s medical and health instrument subdivision industry. On the one hand, high-end medical equipment such as high-flow respiratory humidification therapy equipment and high-frequency ventilators rely on imports, and high-end analytical instruments used in COVID-19 detection are almost also dependent on imports. On the other hand, China can independently meet the temperature gun, infrared thermometer and other low-end medical instruments, but due to the outbreak of the epidemic, resulting in price gouging, indicating that China’s instrument industry urgently needs to strengthen industry management, increase the ability to respond to emergencies.

AAP3798102-00130 The impact of the epidemic on the operation of small and medium-sized enterprises is particularly significant in the instrumentation industry. China’s instrumentation industry lacks similar international leading enterprises such as Thermo Fei, Shimadzu, Roche, Fluke, etc., mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, and currently faces common problems such as delayed start, lack of manpower, delayed orders, and market contraction. To this end, it is recommended to respond to the outbreak from the following four aspects.

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First, the country should not only continue to cultivate leaders, but also develop specialized individual champions. China’s instrumentation industry needs world-class instrumentation manufacturing leading enterprises to lead the development direction of the industry. More importantly, it is necessary to make good use of fiscal, tax, financial and loan policies to protect small and medium-sized enterprises.

AAP3798102-00130 The second is to improve the enterprise standard system, improve the enterprise quality assurance system, and avoid the loss of enterprise technology. Affected by the epidemic, instrument companies will also experience brain drain. Encourage the use of enterprise standards to regulate “technical know-how” to avoid key technologies being saved and lost by people. Actively encourage associations, societies, and standard committees to enter corporate services, and help “top” enterprises establish a sound high-level enterprise standard system.

The third is to build industrial clusters and cultivate core component enterprises. The important impact of the epidemic is on logistics, travel and employment. The government should encourage the formation of industrial clusters and support the development of technology and industrial clusters in the advantageous areas of instrumentation. On the other hand, from a worldwide point of view, the epidemic has intensified the restructuring of the global manufacturing industry chain, the instrumentation industry must have a unified bottom line thinking, that is, there can be no “one card is dead” on the industrial chain, we must make great efforts to cultivate domestic components core enterprises, especially involving industrial safety, a single source of instrumentation core parts.

AAP3798102-00130 The fourth is to make good use of the “new infrastructure” to pull the role of the instrumentation industry. China’s instrumentation enterprises should meet the development needs of “new infrastructure” and accelerate the technological development of new products; Cooperate to improve the hardware design, software development, upstream and downstream applications of instruments and other industrial chain links, promote product independent innovation and iterative optimization; At the same time, it pays attention to basic common technologies such as test requirements, reliability methods, communication transmission, and security requirements.

In this way, we can better use the opportunity of “new infrastructure” to break through the difficulties brought by the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic and realize the high-quality and rapid development of China’s instrumentation industry.