At the end of the last century, Academician Wang Daheng, Academician Jin Guofan and other instrument industry experts have long proposed the goal of revitalizing China’s instrument business and a number of suggestions, Academician Wang Daheng pointed out that “instrument is a tool to understand the world.” This is in contrast to machines being tools for transforming the world, and transforming the world is based on knowing the world.” “Instrumentation is the ‘multiplier’ of industrial production, the ‘vanguard’ of scientific research, the ‘combat effectiveness’ of the military, and the ‘material judge’ of modern life.” These four sentences succinctly summarize the important role of instrumentation on the national economy, scientific research and national security. With the rapid development of digitalization, networking and intelligence in the E28B-23747 manufacturing industry, as the basic perception and measurement tools for manufacturing data acquisition, instrumentation has become the core link for the deep integration of artificial intelligence, big data analysis, industrial Internet and other technologies with the real economy. The position of the instrumentation industry in the reshaping of the global manufacturing pattern, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the scientific and technological power and the high-quality development of the country has become increasingly prominent. On July 13, 2018, the second meeting of the Financial and Economic Commission of the CPC Central Committee proposed to “cultivate a number of cutting-edge scientific instrument manufacturing enterprises”. In March 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting and proposed to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G infrastructure, ultra-high voltage, intercity high-speed railway and intercity rail transit, charging piles, big data centers, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet. Instruments and their core components are important guarantees for communication testing, equipment operation and maintenance, intelligent perception and big data acquisition.

China’s high-end instrumentation has long relied on imports, and the import and export deficit of China’s instrumentation products in recent years has been more than 15 billion US dollars, which is more serious than large-scale mechanical and electrical products such as machine tools. Take large scientific research (scientific) instruments for scientific research as an example. As of 2015, China’s universities, testing institutions, research institutes and transfer institutes have a total of 61,251 large scientific research instruments/sets, of which the total number of imported large scientific research instruments is 46,127 sets/sets, accounting for 75% of China’s existing large scientific research instruments, mainly imported from the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and other developed countries; In fact, since the beginning of the “Eighth Five-Year Plan”, the proportion of imports of large scientific instruments required by central and local scientific research institutes and universities in our country has remained above 90%, and the proportion has E28B-23747 reached 95.9% during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period.

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Many industry categories, many product varieties, complex industrial chain, and special technical support (such as quantity value traceability) are important features of instruments and meters that are different from other large mechanical and electrical equipment. In China’s national economy industry classification, instrumentation industry belongs to the manufacturing industry, divided into 6 categories, 20 sub-categories, the classification situation is shown in Table 1, in addition to the special equipment manufacturing industry in the “medical diagnosis, monitoring and treatment equipment manufacturing” also has some instrumentation E28B-23747 industry content. When the instrument industry association statistics the product situation, it refers to the subcategory of the instrument and meter manufacturing industry. Mainly statistics of industrial automatic control systems and devices, electrical instruments, drawing calculation and measuring instruments, experimental analysis instruments, testing machines, measurement instruments for supply, optical instruments, weighing instruments, special instruments for geodetic mapping, electronic measuring instruments, medical instruments and other instruments, the name is slightly different from the industry classification description, The statistical breakdown of instrumentation products is shown in Table 1. For scientific instruments and equipment products, our country has the classification and code standards for large scientific instruments and equipment, the standard will be divided into 18 categories of general large scientific instruments and 13 categories of special large scientific instruments, the representative products of each category of scientific instruments are shown in Schedule 2 and Schedule 3. The industrial chain structure of instrumentation is very complex, the downstream involves industry, agriculture, transportation, science and technology, environmental protection, national defense, culture, education and health, social life and many other fields, the upstream industry chain involves a variety of electronic components, organic and inorganic materials, mechanical and electrical parts, communications, software and other types of components, etc. There are also third-party assurance technology systems (such as metrology, certification, etc.) that are different from other industries and are required.

China’s instrument industry has more than 70 years of development history, has experienced private, state-owned, capitalized operation and other stages. Since the “12th Five-Year Plan”, the development of the instrumentation industry has been more systematic state support, the National Natural Science Foundation has set up a “major scientific research instrument development” special, the Ministry of Science and E28B-23747 Technology has set up a “major scientific instruments and equipment development” special, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in a number of development policies to guide and support instrumentation enterprises to implement enterprise upgrading and technological transformation. At present, China has basically solved the problem of the variety of instruments, but we should be clearly aware that our country’s instrumentation development has been in a tracking state for a long time, basic research is weak, products are gathered in the low-end, high-end instruments and cutting-edge leading scientific instruments rely on imports, and our self-developed instruments generally respond poorly. In the face of the current new economic and technological situation, as well as the needs of the era of the Internet of everything, the instrumentation industry must fully understand the status quo and problems of its own development, in view of these problems, combined with China’s national conditions, from the top-level design, industry management, technological innovation and industrial development of four aspects of in-depth thinking, It also puts forward development suggestions from the aspects of industry ecology, service platform, original innovation and quality basis, hoping that these suggestions can provide valuable reference for the policy planning, industrial upgrading and enterprise development of the industry.