The dilemma of independent research and development of scientific research instruments is to be solved

The national development and Reform Commission recently approved 21 special projects for the industrialization of scientific instruments and industrial automation high technology At present, the condition and Finance Department of the Ministry of science and technology is organizing experts to further improve and revise the "11th Five Year Plan" for research and development of scientific instruments and equipment This shows that during the 11th Five Year Plan period, China will give strong support to the research and development of scientific research instruments and equipment These measures are due to the anxious reality that at present, almost all of China's high-precision instruments and equipment rely on imports In addition, the market share of domestic low-end testing instruments and meters is not more than 30% The launch of a series of measures is exactly the expectation of relevant departments to reverse this market situation through national support Experts told reporters that scientific research equipment is the core The Chinese government has repeatedly emphasized independent innovation Only by mastering core technology can the Chinese revitalize China However, the current situation that high-precision scientific research equipment is all dependent on imports is obviously contrary to their wishes, and the core is still in the hands of others The development of scientific research instruments is an important branch of scientific development, but it seems to be ignored in the current social transformation period Relevant experts said that during the "Cultural Revolution", China's instrument industry was damaged Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, China has built a number of large-scale scientific instruments and devices, which have contributed to improving the international status of China's basic frontier research fields and the research capacity of high and new technologies At the same time, the demand for scientific instruments has increased rapidly, and the import of scientific instruments has reached another climax However, due to the constraints of the planning system and the impact of the market economy, the research and production of scientific instruments are ignored during the economic transition in China Now, facing the fierce challenge, China's scientific instrument industry is still not determined to take the road of industrialization with independent intellectual property rights " Wu Boer, director of the condition finance department of the Ministry of science and technology, found that due to the special status of scientific research instruments, countries around the world and large multinational companies are competing to increase investment in scientific instrument research and development Pe.bioystems and thermo, the largest sales volume of analytical instruments in the world Every year, electron company invests more than 10% of its sales volume in research and development of analytical instruments, with an average annual investment of more than 100 million US dollars During the Ninth Five Year Plan period in China, the total investment in research and development of research and development instruments is only 75 million yuan, less than 10% of the annual research and development cost of a large multinational company The market development speed of scientific research instruments is amazing Wu said that since 1995, the world analytical instrument market has grown by an average of nearly 9.4% annually, with an average annual sales of 22.86 billion US dollars In China, with the increasing emphasis on science and technology, the expenditure of scientific instruments accounts for 25% of the expenditure of scientific research projects During the Tenth Five Year Plan period, the domestic demand for scientific research instruments reached 20 billion yuan According to the calculation of China Instrument Association, the demand for scientific instruments in China will be huge in the next five years Among them, only general and special automatic test system, including the automatic test system composed of scientific instruments, industrial automation instruments and information technology electrical test instruments respectively or mixed with various instruments and meters, needs 10000 sets every year; all kinds of computerized and intelligent spectrometers need 10000 sets every year; online analytical instrument system needs 1000 sets every year; large complete set of automatic flaw detector The annual demand for instruments is 1000; the annual demand for electromechanical integrated geodetic instruments is 100000; the annual demand for bioengineering testing instruments is 2000 For this reason, Cheng Jinpei, Vice Minister of science and technology, believes that excessive dependence on foreign technologies must be reversed It is reported that Japan's proportion in this respect is less than 5%, the United States is less than 10%, while China's is 50%, and the technology introduction fee does not include the use fee China invests a large part of its capital in fixed assets every year, 40% of which is for equipment, and 60% of which is imported from abroad, especially in the field of equipment, 100% of optical fiber manufacturing equipment is imported, 85% of integrated circuit is imported; textiles are the strength of China, with equipment import reaching 70%; petrochemical equipment 80%; medical equipment almost 90% 100% need to be imported Source: China Electromechanical enterprise network