Analysis of Operation Mode and Mechanism of Development of Instrument Industry in China

Looking at the world's most important industrial powers, its instrumentation and manufacturing industries are relatively developed. For China, which is moving toward an industrialized country, how to develop a good instrumentation industry is of utmost importance.

According to the distinction between capital and technology sources, there are mainly two models for developing the instrumentation industry in the world: one is based on domestic capital and technology, and the other is based on foreign capital and its technology. Industrial developed countries generally adopt the first model, while developing countries often adopt the second model due to conditions.

The current situation facing the instrumentation industry is: China's instrumentation industry faces both opportunities and challenges under the severe situation of foreign investment and import surge. China's instrumentation companies are not limited to the development of medium and low-end products in the main field. Leading companies in the industry have the ability to achieve breakthroughs and monopolies in certain high-tech fields. On the one hand, to give full play to the industry's comparative advantage, consolidate and expand its position and achievements in the general product field, and on the other hand, to make breakthroughs in the field of scientific instruments and high-tech areas of test and control, narrowing the gap is the development path for domestic companies.

With the development trend of economic globalization, the upsurge of new rounds of foreign investment in China's manufacturing industry is set to begin. The characteristics of this round will be dominated by the sole proprietorship and absolute control of foreign ownership, and it will gradually enter the stage of acquiring and acquiring Chinese fine enterprises. As the instrumentation industry has the characteristics of “easy flowability”, urgent global market demand, and “large gap”, it is one of the earliest and most “hot” industries for foreign investment in China’s manufacturing industry. In the global development process of the instrumentation industry in the world, for the Chinese instrumentation industry, our view is that foreign investment is better than not; it is better to transfer to other countries (regions) than to China.

All in all, if China's instrumentation industry wants to break through the country and has a place in the world's instrumentation industry, it can be said that there is a long way to go. We must take the unique sustainable development path of the instrument industry and take a two-pronged approach, based on the development of middle and low-end products. Focusing on the development of high-end instrument products, we will develop a way to develop China's instrumentation industry in line with China's national conditions.