Instrumentation and environmental monitoring potential

The domestic environmental testing instrument industry has made some progress in recent years. Although the quantity, variety, etc., can meet social needs to a certain extent, there are still a large number of problems such as low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, and inaccurate monitoring data. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments and automatic monitoring systems are mostly introduced from abroad. The share of domestically-made instruments is very small. The current situation changes, and there is still much work to be done in terms of product structure, research and development capabilities, and so on.

At present, China's environmental monitoring instruments are mostly medium and low-end products produced by small and medium-sized enterprises. The technology level is generally low, the product types are small, the failure rate is high, and the service life is short. This results in low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, inaccurate monitoring data, and inability to promptly reflect the status of pollutant discharge. This not only affects the scientific decision-making of environmental management and the seriousness of law enforcement, but also easily dampens the enthusiasm of enterprises for pollution control and environmental protection.

For the problems at this stage, our country must first increase the investment in scientific research that is urgently needed for environmental protection work, and include the development of environmental monitoring technologies in the key areas of environmental research. With the help of various supporting policies of the country, we will promote the industrialization and technical upgrading of environmental monitoring instruments. At the same time, we will promote the integration of scientific research and production of monitoring instruments and encourage environmental monitoring equipment manufacturers, universities and scientific research institutions to adopt various methods to carry out technical cooperation and accelerate the conversion of environmental monitoring technologies.

Since the second half of 2013, the market structure of China's monitoring equipment has undergone major changes. After the country began to implement the new air quality monitoring and implementation program, there was a clear import substitution for monitoring equipment. In 2012, about 80% of the monitoring equipment was imported equipment. In the second half of 2013, the market share of foreign monitoring equipment was already lower than domestic equipment.

It should be said that the R&D capabilities of Chinese companies are still quite different from those of foreign companies. At the same time, there is also a lack of mechanisms for close cooperation between research institutes and enterprises. Scientific research results cannot be industrialized quickly. The government's investment in developing and developing environmental science instruments and venture capital are also insufficient.

The development trend of instruments and meters should be based on satisfying the requirements of cheap price, easy maintenance, stable operation, and adaptability to harsh environments, and it should be developed in the direction of automation, intelligence, and networking, and it should be developed from labor-intensive to technology-intensive. The field monitoring has developed in the direction of all-round field monitoring, and it has evolved from simple ground environmental monitoring to combined with remote sensing environmental monitoring.

In addition, many experts suggested increasing scientific research investment and relying on various supporting policies of the country to promote the industrialization and upgrading of environmental monitoring instruments. At the same time, we will promote the integration of scientific research and production of monitoring instruments and encourage environmental monitoring instrument manufacturers, universities, and scientific research institutions to adopt various methods to carry out technical cooperation and accelerate the transformation of environmental monitoring technologies.

From the enterprise level, it is necessary to promote the reorganization of production companies, improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and accelerate the process of localization of high-tech products. For foreign advanced monitoring equipment of complete sets of technologies, we encourage the introduction, digestion, and absorption of key technologies from abroad, and joint venture production, and gradually realize localization.

The government should increase the supervision and management of environmental monitoring instruments and accelerate the formulation and improvement of relevant laws and regulations. Establish and improve the operational marketization mechanism and qualification accreditation system of the environmental automatic monitoring system to eliminate the negative impact caused by the chaos in the operating market. Improve the development planning and technical policies of environmental monitoring instruments in a timely manner, clarify the direction of development of environmental monitoring instruments, guide and standardize the healthy development of environmental monitoring instruments, and avoid blind obedience for enterprises.

According to data analysis, in the next 2-3 years, as the country continues to increase investment in environmental monitoring, the environmental monitoring instrumentation market will maintain a growth rate of more than 20%, much higher than the economic development rate over the same period. It is estimated that by 2016, the entire environmental monitoring instrumentation market will exceed 25 billion.