Future development of instrumentation industry is a long way to go

At present, a report of the National Energy Work Conference pointed out that China’s energy system urgently needs to further develop specialization in the direction of new and renewable energy sources, and fully cooperate with and guide the development of domestic hydropower and the drive of the photovoltaic industry.

In fact, with the in-depth adjustment of economic structure, the report of the National Energy Conference has brought opportunities for the development of instrument-related industries in China. The domestic instrumentation industry presents new changes.

Although China's instrumentation industry has achieved rapid development, but in the areas of automation control systems and field instruments and key precision testing instruments, we still have a big gap with the international advanced level. The situation in which medium and high-grade instruments rely mainly on imports remains unchanged. Therefore, the development goals of China's instrumentation industry in the future are to achieve, catch up, and lead the world.

According to the transaction data of several major e-commerce platforms, recently, domestic scientific instruments such as detection and analysis have maintained an increase of more than 20%. In the instrumentation industry, the market development situation of special instruments and testing equipment is excellent, and the industry has a high degree of prosperity. In particular, the self-developed automated testing equipment is widely expected.

From the statistical data of several major e-commerce platforms, it can be seen that the market share of test equipment, optical instruments, energy meters, variable resistors, drivers, filters, heat exchangers, displays and other types of products account for a large proportion. At present, the application of instrumentation in our country is ubiquitous, and the demand for the instrumentation industry in the market is gradually increasing.

According to statistics from the China Machinery Industry Federation and the Machinery Industry Climate Monitoring Center, a series of changes are taking place in the domestic electrical instrumentation market driven by the nationwide urban and rural power grids. Analysis of the needs of the domestic market Electrician instrumentation product application surface is extremely wide, the power sector is the largest user of electrical instrumentation products. The analysis report from the electric power materials department pointed out that at present, in terms of energy metering instrumentation and systems, the user demand is mainly based on the 86 series induction power meter, and the demand for the electronic power meter mainly single-phase is expected to have a large upside.

The market's demand for precision meters will tend to shrink, and the overall demand for portable meters will also decrease. The requirements for this product are mainly focused on the appearance of the instrument, structural design, expansion of application areas, and improvement of reliability. The focus of digital instrument development is to improve reliability.

Demand Forecast and Price Trends Currently, the domestic production capacity of electrical instrumentation products has been seriously excessive, and the entire industry is in a state of low profit. However, the cost-effectiveness of some high-tech products such as electronic energy meters will have a clear competitive advantage compared to older products.

Data shows that in the next few years, the annual demand for electrical instrumentation products in the domestic market will remain at around 60 million sets. Among them, the electricity sector needs 54 million sets, and other departments need 6 million sets. From the perspective of product structure, there are 48 million electric energy meter products, 7 million electric energy meter products, 2.5 million portable energy meters, 1.5 million digital instruments, and 1 million other meters. The demand structure of various types of products is also changing. The proportion of electronic energy meters in electric energy meter products will gradually increase from the 2 million units in the early period of the “10th Five-Year Plan” period to 12 million units in the final stage. The technical content of installed meters, portable meters, and digital meters will also increase, and product levels will continue to increase. Therefore, although the total annual product demand will not change much in recent years, the total sales volume will continue to increase. The annual growth rate is expected to be 8%.

By the end of 2012, the overall quality of domestically produced products in China is still certain. China's self-developed products have reached international standards in terms of performance and functionality, but in terms of reliability, they are still one of the developments in the domestic instrumentation industry. It is also a serious injury that has also become one of the major injuries that need to be resolved for domestically produced instruments.

Looking forward to 2013, we have a long way to go, we need continuous efforts, and we need to continuously increase the reliability, applicability, and performance of domestic products. I believe that as long as our party is under the correct leadership, through our unremitting efforts domestic instruments and meters will surely have stronger international competitiveness.