China's analytical instrument industry is gradually moving towards high-end

As an important part of China's instrumentation industry, analytical instruments still maintain a good momentum of development as the financial crisis sweeps the globe. The rapid growth of China's analytical instrument market is closely related to the country's emphasis on food safety, environmental protection, disease prevention and control, product quality supervision, production safety and major natural disaster monitoring, and basic research.

1. The overall industry grew steadily, and the year-on-year growth rate decreased significantly

According to data from the China Instrumentation Industry Association, in 2009, the total industrial output value and industrial sales value of analytical instruments including industrial process analytical instruments, experimental analytical instruments, and special instruments for environmental monitoring maintained a steady growth, but the year-on-year growth rate was significantly lower than in 2008 . Except for environmental monitoring instruments, which maintained a small increase in export delivery value, the other two maintained a negative growth. Among them, the output value of special instruments for environmental monitoring exceeded 9.2 billion yuan, an increase of 28.85% year-on-year, and the sales value reached 9.121 billion yuan, an increase of 30.82% year-on-year.

The data shows that in the analytical instrument industry, the special instrumentation for environmental monitoring has the fastest growth rate, the industrial process analytical instrument sub-industry also maintains a growth rate higher than the industry average, and the growth rate of experimental analytical instruments is significantly lower than the average level of the instrumentation industry . This is mainly because the state has included environmental protection and energy conservation and emission reduction in its mid- to long-term development plan, and has issued some mandatory and encouraging policies to promote the popularization and application of environmental monitoring instruments. Moreover, due to the 2008 melamine incident, the market for food safety monitoring equipment has grown substantially.

2. Imports continue to grow and exports decline

As the overall imports and exports of the national instrumentation industry showed a negative growth, the imports of analytical instruments continued to increase, while exports declined year-on-year. Among them, the import of industrial process analytical instruments was US $ 448 million, and the export value was US $ 338 million; the import value of experimental analytical instruments was nearly US $ 2.7 billion, and the export value was US $ 600 million. Reduced by 170 million US dollars, the import and export deficit of analytical instruments was 5.6 billion US dollars.

The main reason for the large import of analytical instruments is that 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, large R & D investment, and long R & D cycle, it is a huge challenge for domestic companies. Although in recent years there have been fast-growing high-tech enterprises such as Concentrating Technology, Tianrui Instrument, General Analysis, Dongxi Electronics, Beijing Nack, Xuedilong, Hebei Xianhe, etc. However, domestic enterprises still generally lack their own technology The lack of original innovation capabilities of high-end products, the serious lack of R & D investment, and the lack of systematic and long-term continuity of work have led to insufficient development capabilities of domestic companies 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.

The decrease in the export of analytical instruments was mainly due to the outbreak of the international financial crisis since the second half of 2008, the sharp deterioration of the domestic and international economic situation, and the decline in foreign demand.

3. Leading enterprises exert their leading advantages and continue to show strong development power

In 2009, 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. Companies 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 constantly optimized market environment and the entry of more foreign analytical instrument companies, the competition awards in the domestic analytical instrument market have become more intense. Therefore, domestic analytical instrument manufacturers must go up against the current market environment in which crises and opportunities coexist, increase investment, and continue to innovate, struggling on the road of scientific and technological development, and marching toward world-class levels.