Electronic measuring instrument market welcomes development opportunities

China's electronic measuring instruments are currently the second opportunity for development since the founding of New China. The first opportunity for development occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. Of the 156 major projects identified in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 12 were electronic measuring instrument projects, which accounted for 7.7% of the total project, and in a short period of several years. A total of 11 electronic measuring instrument factories and one electronic measuring instrument research institute were built, basically satisfying the needs of the national defense equipment and defense industry for electronic measuring instruments at that time. The emergence of the second development opportunity mainly comes from the development of China's economy. After nearly 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s economy has undergone two changes: First, the industry needs to be upgraded, and second, the industry needs independent innovation. In an industry, from the selection of raw materials, the monitoring of production processes, the testing of products, and the operation of industries, electronic measurement instruments are required. Therefore, electronic measurement instruments shoulder the historic mission of upgrading and independent innovation of other industries.

Continuing to meet the demand for high-end equipment How to meet the demand of domestic enterprises for high-end electronic measuring instruments, there are two ways: First, buy from abroad, and second, provide domestically.

For a socialist country like China, it cannot be completely bought from abroad, and some countries have expressly stipulated that Chinese exports must be approved by the government. If the test rate of integrated circuit tester is higher than 333MHz, it will not be sold to China; in other words, the globalization of the world economy does not break political pluralism, politics is still a gap, and economic globalization is sometimes less political diversity. Divide.

Second, electronic measurement instruments are multi-core technology industries, and it is impossible for developed countries to transfer core technologies to China, especially multi-core technologies. The main body of international competition in the 21st century is the competition of big countries' strategic industries. First, there are still national interests and national security issues in the context of globalization. As a rising middle power that cannot be attached to the developed countries, China must have relatively independent key technologies and basic science and technology, and it is impossible for developed countries to transfer core technologies to us. Secondly, in the middle of the internationalization of industries, enterprises and industries have the right to ownership. China cannot always live at the end of the international industrial chain, and it will give high-end to developed countries.

Furthermore, electronic measuring instruments are "associative strategic industries." For China, strategic industries must develop independently. Replacing "open innovation" with "independent innovation" is a key step for the country to establish a correct industrial development strategy. The strategic industry is based on the breakthroughs in science and technology and has high risks and benefits. The development of strategic industries can promote the country's technological innovation capabilities and is the country’s core interests. Developing strategic industries can create long-term dynamic comparative benefits and stimulate numerous industrial chains. In short, China, as a politically independent world power, must take two paths at the same time: follow the laws of market economy to upgrade current labor-intensive industries; and use state power to foster strategic industries with independent intellectual property rights. This is two parallel roads.

"Electrical measuring instruments have uniquely associated strategic industries. Its own development is good or bad. It has a very significant impact on the development of the entire national economy, especially the electronic information industry. Therefore, it is the right of countries and enterprises to independently develop high-end electronic measuring instruments. Choosing.” The CEO of the gold mold network Luo Baihui believes that in recent years, China’s electronic measurement instrument industry has made great progress, but the gap with foreign manufacturers is still very large, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. The popularity of digital electronic measuring instruments has yet to be improved. The "digital era" has come. The "digital era" is the latest symbol of social and economic modernization. It is related to the level of "core competitiveness" of a country in the field of science and technology. If insufficient attention is paid to it, a country will lose its leading position in technology. status.

2. The bus technology is very different. VXI, PXI, LXI, USB interface, bus technology have been developed to a very high level in electronic measuring instruments. At present, there are three trends driving the development of the test and measurement industry: First, there must be system-ready hardware, that is, modular products, that can quickly build a system. Second, there must be standards-based, PC-compatible input and output interfaces, as well as input and output drivers that can be based on local area networks or the Internet. Third, there must be a flexible software solution, regardless of the customer needs is the Excel interface, the text interface can give customers a flexible choice. The international LXI (LANeXtensionforInstrument) alliance was created to cater to this change. Foreign companies have already developed LXI bus products. Some domestic universities have started research. Domestic electronic measuring instruments have not yet been involved. If it is too late, it will once again widen the gap between China's electronic measuring instruments and the level of international technology. Therefore, China's electronic measuring instruments Enterprises should start the application of LXI bus technology in electronic measurement instruments as soon as possible.

3. Software technology. There is no software technology for electronic measuring instruments. It is as if our electronic measuring instruments are still in the “cold weapons” era. However, software technology is still far from being reflected in our electronic measuring instruments. This does not solve our electronic measuring instruments forever. It is not a modern level electronic measuring instrument.

4. Modularization. This is the direction of the development of international electronic measuring instruments. In fact, modularization, bus technology, and software technology are three-in-one, not "mechanical" modularity, and its difficulty is no less than bus technology and software technology in our electronic measurement. Instrument companies have not started well.

5. Integrated technology. Electronic measurement instrument hardware, ie, electronic circuit technology, coaxial device component technology, waveguide device component technology integration technology, is an important core technology in electronic measurement instruments. It is combined with bus technology, software technology, and modularization technology to form a modernization. Electronic measuring instruments, this is a difficult problem that our electronic measuring instrument companies still have to overcome.

China is a big country. The electronic measurement technology it needs is comprehensive and world-class. Since 2000, the world’s electronic measuring instruments have made tremendous technological progress. It is expected that in the next few years, the electronic measuring instrument industry will Driven strongly, based on SDR (software-defined radio) measurement instruments and multi-field instrument interoperability expansion as a hot spot, LXI and USB will be used as a link bus space, will obtain more technological innovation, and actively promote the development of electronic devices, electronic applications , Forming a positive interaction.

How large is China's electronic measuring instrument market? It is actually a question that is difficult to clarify. It is bigger than we think. The number of electronic instruments and equipment imported by various companies registered and registered in mainland China amounted to US$15 billion, of which foreign-owned enterprises accounted for 61.7%, Chinese-foreign joint ventures accounted for 9%, state-owned enterprises accounted for 12%, private enterprises accounted for 11%, and collectively Enterprises accounted for 2%, and Chinese-foreign cooperative enterprises accounted for 3%.

“The domestic market for electronic measuring instruments is about 10 billion yuan, and the sales volume is over 7 million. The growth rate is above 20%. It should be said that the demand for electronic measuring instruments is very strong.” Luo Baihui believes that the total market for electronic instruments in China is in the ten billion US dollars. About the world, it should be among the best in the world.

Electronic measurement instruments are related strategic industries. How to develop electronic measuring instrument industry that is not a scale economy, people's understanding and actions are not uniform, but history will eventually prove that there is no independent independent core technology electronic measurement instrument industry, it is difficult to smoothly promote the developed countries The level of industrial upgrading, the independent innovation of science and technology, and the modernization of national defense equipment, the country should support the electronic measuring instrument industry with the most obvious associated strategic industries.