What is the current status of the development of the instrumentation industry?

The localization of high-end instruments has always been the weakness of the domestic equipment manufacturing industry. At this year's National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, this topic was raised by many deputies and committee members, and aroused widespread comments.

What is the current situation of the development of the instrumentation profession? How to break the "embarrassment" of high-end scientific instrument shopping malls being monopolized by foreign manufacturers for a long time? What is the impact of "new infrastructure" on the development of instrumentation careers?

Ouyang Jinsong, director of the Institute of Machinery Industry Instrumentation Induction Skills and Economy, has deep feelings about the above problems. He believes that the structural contradictions of China's instrumentation profession are prominent, and it is urgent to break and improve them from the aspects of professional management, skill innovation and industrial development. 　　There are structural contradictions in the instrumentation profession China's Industry News: At that time, what was the status quo of China's instrumentation profession? What are the top bottlenecks?

What is the current status of the development of the instrumentation industry?

Ouyang Jinsong: "Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan", China's instrumentation profession has received a lot of support from governments at all levels, and has cultivated a group of talents and innovative teams.

In 2019, the number of enterprises with career planning has exceeded 4,400, and the self-sufficiency rate of domestic shopping malls is close to 60%. Now, China has basically solved the problem of the types of instruments and meters. However, the development of instruments and meters in China has been in a state of monitoring for a long time, the fundamental research has been weak for a long time, and the high-end instruments developed by the self-developed are generally not easy to use; Instrumentation center components, special materials, and special processes have been ignored for a long time, and the products are collected in the middle and low end, and many high-end instruments and meters, especially cutting-edge and leading scientific instruments, rely on imports. In my opinion, there are still bottlenecks in the development of the instrumentation profession in terms of management, skills and industry.

The first is the optimization of professional management needs. At that time, China's top-level planning and operation mechanism with different policies of instrumentation in series were insufficient. Government departments at all levels have basically not established relatively special management agencies, resulting in the timely and accurate reflection of instrumentation professional information and demand to government departments of the channel is fuzzy, the handling service system is scattered and multi-headed, and the systematization and integrity of vocational skills development are difficult to guarantee.

The second is the demand for innovation in skill development mode. The development of instrumentation is a typical intellectual-intensive scientific and technological activity. Instrumentation enterprises are the central body of product innovation and development, but China's instrumentation enterprises are generally short of high-end compound talents, and they are also facing the problem of shopping malls and benefits. Some of the instruments and products that are in demand and have great development value, but are urgently needed by the country, whether the enterprise is suitable as the main body of research and development, is worth discussing.

Third, the demand of all links of the industrial chain is carried out in a coordinated manner. It is difficult to develop instruments and meters, and it is even more difficult to develop high-end scientific instruments, which requires long-term capital investment in all links of the industrial chain, and it is urgent to build a higher level of third-party testing and measurement guarantee system. The development, production and use of instruments and meters should form a close-knit closed loop of the industrial chain, and the large-scale machine enterprises should gather a group of upstream and downstream enterprises in the center to form an industrial cluster, cultivate a group of local central parts manufacturing enterprises, and solve the bottleneck problem of relying on imports for central parts. 　　Get rid of high-end imports and rely on multi-party coordination China's Industry News: The import and export trade deficit of high-end instruments and meters is serious, and high-end scientific instruments rely on imports for a long time, how do you think it should be solved?

Ouyang Jinsong: Such a status quo of import and export trade is related to all aspects of the instrumentation profession, and it is also very related to the development of the pre-history and industrial foundation, which requires multi-party coordination and systematic planning of the short-term and medium-term development of the profession. 　　In terms of professional management, it advocates the use of guidelines and systems to guide the development mode of "manufacturer + user", strengthen the fine grasp of the external dependence of instrumentation products, long-term planning of high-end instruments and key central components, give priority to supporting the development of imported and blank instrumentation products, and pay attention to the accumulation of production technology and common skills. Guide the development of national economic security and national defense construction needs for professional forward-looking cooperation, effectively and accurately allocate national resources, and promote the development and industrialization of urgently needed instrumentation common skills. It advocates multi-dimensional coordination of central and local resources, and co-ordinates the use of funds and project selection mechanisms to prevent duplicate support from multiple heads. 　　In terms of skill development, it is necessary to pay attention to the discussion of fundamental skills and common skills. It is necessary to focus on the guidance of future testing skills for instrumentation products, and pay attention to the fundamental research of testing and measurement skills and the development of fundamental components of instrumentation centers. Together with this, in order to create a high-end instrument and meter that is "real and practical", it is necessary to increase investment in the development of common skills such as production, testing, standards and measurements and service platforms, especially for the service platform of cutting-edge new skills, it should also be developed in advance, and the construction should be undertaken by professional public welfare institutions, and the common resources of the occupation should be co-ordinated, and the ability assessment and service performance evaluation should be strengthened, and the power of occupational resources should be improved. 　　Scientific instruments are "the shortcomings of the short board" China's Industry News: Scientific instruments have an extremely important strategic position in fundamental research, national economy and national defense security.

On July 13, 2018, the second meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission proposed to "cultivate a number of top scientific instrument manufacturing enterprises". What are some good ideas for achieving this policy? 　　Ouyang Jinsong: If instrumentation is a shortcoming that restricts China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry, then scientific instrumentation is a "shortcoming of the shortcoming". I think that the cultivation of scientific instrument manufacturing enterprises should be promoted in terms of talents, funds and skills. 　　In terms of talents, it is advocated that a certain proportion of local and enterprise directional entrustment missions should be established in national science and technology projects, the weight of enterprise and user reviews should be increased in performance reviews, and the high-level scientific instrument talent teams of universities and scientific research institutes should be guided and continued to be supported to provide services for enterprises for a long time. Universities and research institutes should encourage scientific instrument enterprises to participate in the training of measurement and control and instrument professionals, establish a joint discussion and joint training system, and take the service of scientific and technological personnel to scientific instrument enterprises as an important basis for title evaluation, job competition, degree evaluation, and talent selection.

In terms of financial support for instrument enterprises, through the establishment of special funds, loans and other financial measures for scientific instrument "specialized, refined" enterprises, the financing problems of some scientific instrument enterprises are solved, and the iterative improvement of enterprise start-ups, patent productization, and engineering development and use of high-end instrument products is supported. It can also establish a more professional special guidance fund for scientific instruments, keep an eye on the national scientific instruments-related science and technology and industrial projects, and provide free funding, loan discounts, process subsidies and post-subsidies and other different methods to continue to support its industrialization. 　　In terms of skill development, we should strengthen the import-type world academic exchanges and exhibition activities of instrumentation, optimize the policy of scientific and technological talents landing, unite the world forces to participate in domestic special research and development operations, focus on the joint development of scientific instruments with obvious domestic demand and world gaps, and carry out collaborative research and industrialization of scientific instrument skills in the local occupational environment, and accelerate the innovation of scientific instruments. The management department should coordinate the matching of resources, the whole chain of scientific instrument skills development and industrialization investment, in accordance with the idea of "consolidating the foundation, building the system, coordinated development, and orderly competition", closely following the serious needs of our country, and making overall arrangements for scientific instrument science and technology and industrial construction. 　　Taking advantage of the opportunity of "new infrastructure" to leap forward China's Industry News: In the first quarter of 2020, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the profits of most manufacturing enterprises in China declined year-on-year or even lost money, and the country proposed to further vigorously carry out "new infrastructure" in a timely manner. In your opinion, what impact has the epidemic had on the instrumentation profession? How can instrumentation companies take advantage of the opportunity of "new infrastructure" to break the dilemma and boost performance?

Ouyang Jinsong: The impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on the instrumentation profession is mainly reflected in two aspects: professional structure and enterprise operation. 　　The epidemic has exposed the structure and shortcomings of the subdivision of medical and health instruments in China. On the one hand, high-end medical instruments and equipment such as high-flow respiratory humidification therapy instruments and high-frequency ventilators rely on imports, and high-end analytical instruments used in the detection of the new crown epidemic also rely on imports. On the other hand, low-end medical instruments such as forehead thermometers and infrared thermometers can be independently satisfied in China, but due to the detonation of the epidemic, prices have been raised, indicating that China's instrumentation profession urgently needs to strengthen professional management and increase the ability to respond to emergencies. 　　The impact of the epidemic on the operation of small and medium-sized enterprises is particularly significant in the instrumentation profession. China's instrumentation profession is short of Thermo Fisher, Shimadzu, Roche, Fluke and other similar world leading enterprises, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, at that time faced common problems such as delayed start-up, insufficient manpower, postponement of orders, and shrinking shopping malls. To this end, we advocate that the epidemic should be dealt with from the following four aspects.

First, the country should not only continue to cultivate leaders, but also develop specialized individual champions. China's instrumentation profession needs world-class leading enterprises in instrumentation production to lead the direction of career development. More importantly, it is necessary to make good use of the policies of finance and taxation, finance and borrowing to protect small and medium-sized enterprises in instrumentation.

The second is to improve the enterprise standard system, improve the enterprise quality assurance system, and prevent the loss of enterprise skills. Affected by the epidemic, instrumentation companies will also lose talents. Encourage the use of corporate standards to standardize "know-how" to prevent key skills from being stored and lost by people. Actively encourage associations, societies and bidding committees to enter enterprise services, and assist "top" enterprises to establish a sound high-level enterprise standard system.

The third is to build industrial clusters and cultivate central component enterprises. The most important impact of the pandemic is on logistics, travel and employment. The government should encourage the formation of industrial clusters and support the development of skills and industrial clusters in advantageous regions. On the other hand, from a worldwide perspective, the epidemic has aggravated the restructuring of the industrial chain of the global manufacturing industry, and the instrumentation profession must have a consistent bottom-line thinking, that is, there can be no "one card and die" link in the industrial chain, and it is necessary to make great efforts to cultivate domestic parts center enterprises, especially those involving industrial safety and single-source instrumentation center parts.

Fourth, the use of "new infrastructure" on the instrumentation profession to pull effect. China's instrumentation enterprises should respond to the development needs of "new infrastructure" and accelerate the skill development of new products; Collaborate and improve all links of the industrial chain such as hardware planning, software development, upstream and downstream use of instrumentation, and promote independent innovation and iterative optimization of products; Together, we will focus on basic common skills such as test requirements, reliability methods, communication transmission, and security requirements.

What is the current status of the development of the instrumentation industry?

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