Observation: Status and Countermeasures of Environmental Power Supply Monitoring Instrument Industry

At present, China's environmental monitoring equipment is far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety, quantity, performance, and quality. Most of the monitoring stations in the country have low technology and equipment, single functions, poor stability and reliability, and they need to be replaced.

Relevant experts believe that manufacturers of environmental monitoring instruments and equipment will be divided in two directions: one is a large-scale comprehensive enterprise with international competitiveness, and the other is a group of highly specialized small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly specialized in certain types of technologies or Proficient in a certain product or service, characterized by small scale, staffed, and experienced. A large number of production enterprises developed rapidly and began to change the status of China's environmental monitoring field by relying only on imported instruments. At the same time, enterprises, universities, research institutes, design institutes, finance, and market agencies have realized communication and interaction to promote the formation of large-scale production companies and large-scale markets.

Problems in China's Environmental Monitoring Instrument Market

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 example, various pollution source emission on-line monitoring systems do not solve the measurement problems brought about by high temperature, high humidity, and high particulate matter content. The online smoke and dust automatic monitoring system is basically still blank in China, which greatly limits the total amount of smoke and dust. The implementation of the control system.

The research and development capabilities are low, and the on-line monitoring equipment has a relatively low system production capacity and cannot meet the needs of the market. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments, and automatic monitoring systems are mostly imported from abroad. Therefore, domestic equipment occupies a small share. In China's domestic instruments, the occupancy rate of atmospheric monitoring instruments is about 70%, and the occupancy rate of water quality monitoring instruments is about 60%. Most of these instruments are in the level of the international 1980s and cannot meet actual needs; the instruments required by sewage treatment plants The instrument is still basically imported. The R&D expenses of large foreign companies generally account for 5-10% of the company's total sales, while those of the better ones in China are only 1%, and the product life cycle is far greater than that of developed countries.

Poor business management capabilities, labor productivity is not high, tend to be assimilation. The reason is that relevant experts believe that the first is the issue of large-scale state-owned enterprises' operation mechanism and they do not play a good role; second, small companies flock to the top, lack technology, lack funds, repeat at low levels, and the quality and performance of the instrument cannot be improved. Contrary to imported instruments, the third is the lack of a close cooperation mechanism between research institutes and enterprises and the inability to quickly realize industrialization; Fourth, the government's investment in developing and developing environmental science instruments and insufficient investment in venture capital.

There is a contradiction between supply and demand in the market, and there is a shortage of products with high technological content that cannot meet strict environmental management needs. Taking the ambient air quality automatic monitoring system as an example, according to the analysis of the current market capacity, it is expected that the supply capacity during China's “10th Five-Year Plan” period will be insufficient, and some systems will still need to rely on imports. At present, the environmental monitoring instrument industry is small in scale, backward in technology, and disorderly in competition. Problems such as unstable technical performance and low level of integration have led to the oversupply of middle and low-end products.

The automatic online monitoring market needs to be expanded. According to the analysis of relevant experts, the reasons for the slow development of the automatic online monitoring equipment market are: Firstly, the importance of localities is not enough; second, the quality of equipment and equipment is not ideal enough, the service is not in place, and it cannot compete with foreign products; and third, irregular operation and unfair competition cause The market is unable to develop healthily and it is difficult to attract foreign advanced technology. Fourth, there is resistance to the installation of automatic monitoring equipment and lack of legal support.

Development Countermeasures and Suggestions for China's Environmental Monitoring Instrument Industry

It is necessary to develop environmental monitoring instruments that suit China's national conditions. Relevant experts believe that environmental monitoring equipment suitable for China's national conditions should have: cheaper, lower maintenance costs; can be used under harsh conditions; easy to maintain operation, intelligent, and strong anti-interference ability.

Some monitoring instruments with high intelligence, high stability and high precision are also the development trend of environmental protection instruments in China.

To grasp the development trend of China's environmental monitoring instruments. Relevant experts believe that the development trend of China's environmental monitoring instruments has the following points: 1. The current direction of manual sampling and laboratory analysis mainly focuses on automation, intelligence, and networking; 2. From labor-intensive to technology Intensive direction development; 3, from the narrow area of ​​monitoring to the direction of all-round monitoring of the development of the field; 4, from a simple monitoring of the ground environment and the direction of the development of integrated monitoring of environmental monitoring; 5, environmental monitoring equipment will be high-quality, Multi-functional, integrated, automated, systematic and intelligent aspects of development; 6, environmental monitoring instruments to the physical, chemical, biological, electronic, optical and other technologies integrated application of high-tech development.

We will increase research investment in monitoring technologies that are urgently needed for environmental protection work, and include the development of environmental monitoring technologies in 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 instrument manufacturers, universities, and scientific research institutions to adopt various methods to carry out technical cooperation and accelerate the transformation of environmental monitoring technologies.

Using market regulation measures to promote the recombination of environmental monitoring instrument manufacturers, gradually changing the monitoring instrument production technology is weak, scattered investment, low level of duplication, low market competitiveness, to achieve appropriate scale of intensive production, the formation of a number of monitoring instruments The backbone enterprise of production. At the same time, products should be adjusted from high to low to high-end equipment to meet the needs of actual work.

The use of high technology to reorganize, transform and upgrade the technological level and competitiveness of the environmental monitoring technology and instrumentation industry will accelerate the process of localization. It is advisable to adopt domestically-made monitoring instruments and equipment at the level of similar technologies. With the improvement of the technological level, the prices of domestically-made equipment and equipment should be appropriately raised, and profit margins should be increased so that enterprises can have sufficient funds to increase the level of manufacturing. 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.

Increase the supervision and management of environmental monitoring instruments, establish and improve the marketization mechanism and qualification certification system for the operation of environmental automatic monitoring systems, and eliminate the negative impact caused by the chaos of the operating market. Improve the development planning and technical policies of environmental monitoring instruments in a timely manner, clarify the direction of the development of environmental monitoring instruments, guide and standardize the healthy development of environmental monitoring instruments, and avoid the blind obedience of enterprises. It is necessary to establish a batch of technical intermediaries with a good technical foundation and authority to test the technical level and quality of environmental monitoring instruments and make them known to the public. The "access" system is applied to special instruments for environmental monitoring used for law enforcement monitoring.

To ensure that the environmental monitoring data are scientific, accurate, and comparable, the environmental monitoring instrument standards should be strengthened, environmental monitoring instrument standards should be included in the environmental protection standard system, and unified planning and coordination with environmental monitoring standards, environmental analysis, and testing method development. get on.

Accelerate the formulation of corresponding laws and regulations for environmental monitoring, and gradually establish regional automation network systems for monitoring environmental quality and pollution sources in some large and medium-sized cities. By organizing and implementing the demonstration project of the construction of the environmental monitoring automation network, the formation of the automated environment monitoring network system in China will be promoted, and the market demand for environmental monitoring equipment will be expanded.