Domestic instruments are expected to rise and analytical instruments climb steadily

The laboratory equipment market in China has always been under the "monopoly" of foreign brands. The "bottleneck" of domestic laboratory equipment has always been in an awkward position. The high-end equipment market is "dangerously removed" and the field of conventional general equipment. Low value-added, although the market is large, but the profit is meager. As far as domestic market demand is concerned, the environment for localization has not been fundamentally improved, the conditions for the industry ’s great development are not yet mature, innovation breakthroughs are sparkling, and there is no sign of ignorance. Not all enterprises have made progress in industrialization and technological breakthroughs Moreover, the industry's joint reorganization is difficult, and companies with international competitiveness are still being bred.

In 2007, the industry had such a set of data: China ’s instrument market is the main analytical instrument. There are more than 90 analytical instruments in use in the society. China can produce only more than 20 kinds of products, which is less than 1/3 of the total. Among them, there are more than 80 kinds of special instruments for life sciences, and there are only 6 kinds of special life science instruments commercialized in China, which are far from the market demand. The gap in quantity will inevitably lead to an imbalance in profits. In 2009, when the overall import and export of the national instrument industry showed a negative growth, the import of analytical instruments continued to increase, and the export decreased year-on-year. Among them, the import value of experimental analytical instruments is nearly US $ 2.7 billion, and the export value is US $ 600 million; the import of industrial process analytical instruments is US $ 448 million, and the export value is US $ 338 million,

These figures illustrate that if domestic instruments are to reverse the current situation, there is indeed a long way to go. As far as the analytical instruments for heavy projects are concerned, most of the high-end analytical instruments currently in use in China are still imported. Due to the high technical requirements of high-end analytical instruments, long research and development cycles, and large investment in research and development, it is a huge challenge for domestic enterprises. Although in recent years there have been fast-growing high-tech enterprises such as Concentrating Technology, General Analysis, Tianrui Instrument, Dongxi Electronics, Beijing Nack, Xuedilong, Hebei Xianhe, etc. However, domestic enterprises still generally lack original high-end products Innovative ability, lack of own technology, serious lack of R & D investment, and lack of systematic and long-term continuity of work have led to insufficient development capabilities of domestic enterprises for high-end analytical instruments. The channels for linking the scientific research achievements of the scientific research institutes and universities to the industry are not smooth, and high-end analytical instruments that meet the needs of the domestic market cannot be produced in the short term.

However, China's analytical instrument market as a whole is changing. Since 2009, in the face of the impact of the world financial crisis, the growth rate of China's instrumentation industry has once again dropped significantly, but with the joint efforts of the entire industry, it has come out of the trough and achieved stability. Recovery and development. "In 2009, there were three unexpected developments in the instrumentation industry," said Xi Jiacheng, a special consultant of the China Instrumentation Industry Association. "The recovery is lower than expected, the profit recovery is faster than expected, and local companies are more resilient than expected."

Last year, in the context of a slowdown in the overall growth rate of the analytical instrument industry and a year-on-year decrease in exports, a few leading companies still maintained a strong development momentum. Enterprises such as Concentrating Technology, Tianrui Instrument and Beijing Nack have bucked the trend in the context of the decline in the global analysis and testing industry, and have achieved gratifying results of 44%, 30%, and 24.4% sales growth, respectively.

In particular, Concentrating Technology still has the absolute advantage to consolidate the number one position in market share. This is mainly because they seized the important opportunity of the state and governments at all levels to attach importance to the development of instrumentation, attach importance to scientific and technological innovation, continue to strengthen investment in research and development, developed analytical measurement instruments with independent intellectual property rights and adapted to market needs, and obtained It has been widely used and achieved significant social and economic benefits.

For a long time, almost 100% of high-end analytical instruments are occupied by imports, forcing domestic analytical instrument companies to change the original R & D and production mode, and have begun to gradually develop toward the production of high-end analytical instruments. With the continuously optimized market environment and the entry of more foreign analytical instrument companies, the competition in the domestic analytical instrument market will become more intense. Therefore, domestic analytical instrument manufacturers must go up against the current market environment in which crises and opportunities coexist, continuously innovate, increase investment, dig through obstacles on the road of technological development, and march toward world-class level.

It is true that the gap between domestic instruments and foreign brands in life sciences is still very large, but science is the world and belongs to us human beings. I hope more people can make more high-quality experiments. At the same time, the development of our domestic instruments must also make persistent efforts.