Current status and countermeasures of environmental power monitoring instrument industry

At present, the variety, quantity, performance and quality of my country's environmental monitoring equipment are far from meeting the needs of actual work. The equipment in most monitoring stations across the country has low technical content, single functions, poor stability and reliability, and is in urgent need of replacement.

Relevant experts believe that environmental monitoring instrument and equipment manufacturers will be divided into two directions. One is a large-scale comprehensive enterprise with international competitiveness, and the other is a group of extremely specialized small and medium-sized enterprises, which are mainly good at a certain type of technology or a certain product or service. They are characterized by small scale, specialized personnel and rich experience. A large number of production enterprises have developed rapidly and have begun to change the current situation of relying solely on imported instruments in China's environmental monitoring field. At the same time, enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions, design units, finance, and market intermediaries have achieved communication and interaction, promoting the formation of large-scale production enterprises and large-scale markets.

Problems in China's environmental monitoring instrument market
Most of China's environmental monitoring instruments are low-end products produced by small and medium-sized enterprises, with general technical levels, few product types, high failure rates, and short service lives. This results in low monitoring frequency, large sampling errors, inaccurate monitoring data, and failure to timely reflect the pollution status, which not only affects the scientific decision-making and seriousness of law enforcement in environmental management, but also easily dampens the enthusiasm of enterprises to control pollution and protect the environment. For example, the online monitoring systems for various pollution sources have not solved the measurement problems caused by high temperature, high humidity, and high particulate matter content. The online automatic monitoring system for smoke dust is basically blank in China, which greatly limits the implementation of the total smoke dust control system.
The research and development capabilities are low, and the system supporting production capacity of online monitoring instruments is low, which cannot meet the needs of the market. High-quality analyzers, special monitoring instruments and automatic monitoring systems are mostly introduced from abroad, so the share of domestic instruments is very small. Among China's domestic instruments, the share of atmospheric monitoring instruments is about 70%, and the share of water quality monitoring instruments is about 60%. Most of these instruments are at the international level of the 1980s and cannot meet actual needs; and the instruments and meters needed by sewage treatment plants are basically still imported. The R&D expenses of large foreign companies generally account for 5-10% of the total sales of enterprises, while the better enterprises in China only account for 1%, and the product life cycle is much longer than that of developed countries.
The management ability is poor, the labor productivity is not high, and the tendency of convergence is serious. Experts believe that the reasons are: first, the operation mechanism of large state-owned enterprises has not played a good backbone role; second, small enterprises have flocked in, lacking technology and funds, and there are many low-level duplications. The quality and performance of instruments cannot compete with imported instruments from abroad; third, there is a lack of close cooperation mechanism between research institutions and enterprises, and industrialization cannot be achieved quickly; fourth, the government's investment and venture capital in the development and research of environmental science instruments are insufficient.
There is a contradiction between supply and demand in the market, and there is a shortage of high-tech products that cannot meet the strict needs of environmental management. Taking the automatic monitoring system of ambient air quality as an example, according to the current market capacity analysis, it is expected that China's supply capacity will be insufficient during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and some systems will still need to rely on imports. At present, the environmental monitoring instrument industry has problems such as small scale, backward technology, and disordered competition, especially unstable technical performance and low level of complete sets, which have led to an oversupply of medium and low-end products.
The market for automatic online environmental monitoring is in urgent need of expansion. According to the analysis of relevant experts, the reasons for the slow development of the automatic online monitoring equipment market are: first, local governments do not pay enough attention to it; second, the quality of instruments and equipment is not ideal, the service is not in place, and they cannot compete with foreign products; third, non-standard operations and unfair competition have led to the inability of the market to develop healthily, making it difficult to attract advanced foreign technologies; fourth, companies have resistance to installing automatic monitoring instruments and lack legal support.

Countermeasures and suggestions for the development of China's environmental monitoring instrument industry We
should develop environmental monitoring instruments suitable for China's national conditions. Relevant experts believe that environmental monitoring instruments suitable for China's national conditions should have the following characteristics: low price, low maintenance cost; can be used under relatively harsh conditions; easy to maintain and operate, intelligent, and strong anti-interference ability. Some monitoring instruments with high intelligence, high stability, and high precision are also the development trend of China's environmental protection instruments.
We must grasp the development trend of China's environmental monitoring instruments. Relevant experts believe that the development trend of China's environmental monitoring instruments is as follows: 1. From the current manual sampling and laboratory analysis to the monitoring direction of automation, intelligence and networking; 2. From labor-intensive to technology-intensive; 3. From narrow field monitoring to all-round field monitoring; 4. From simple ground environmental monitoring to the direction of combining with remote sensing environmental monitoring; 5. Environmental monitoring instruments will develop in the direction of high quality, multi-function, integration, automation, systematization and intelligence; 6. Environmental monitoring instruments will develop in the field of high technology with comprehensive application of physical, chemical, biological, electronic, optical and other technologies.
Increase the investment in scientific research on monitoring technologies 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 national support policies, we will promote the industrialization and technological upgrading of environmental monitoring instruments. At the same time, we will promote the combination of scientific research and production of monitoring instruments, encourage environmental monitoring instrument manufacturers, universities and scientific research institutions to adopt various forms of technical cooperation, and accelerate the transformation of environmental monitoring technology achievements.
We will use market regulation to promote the reorganization of environmental monitoring instrument manufacturers, gradually change the situation of weak monitoring instrument production technology, scattered investment, low-level duplication, and low market competitiveness, realize moderate scale and intensive production, and form a group of backbone enterprises for monitoring instrument production. At the same time, products should be adjusted from low-end to high-end instruments and equipment to meet the needs of actual work.
We will use high-tech to reorganize, transform and improve the technical level and competitiveness of the environmental monitoring technology and instrument equipment industry to accelerate the localization process. It should be advocated that under similar technical levels, the domestic monitoring instruments and equipment should be used first. With the improvement of technical levels, the prices of domestic instruments and equipment should be appropriately increased, and the profit margin should be increased so that enterprises have sufficient funds to improve the manufacturing level. For monitoring instruments with advanced complete sets of technology already available abroad, we encourage the introduction, digestion and absorption of foreign key technologies, joint venture production, and then gradually realize localization.
Strengthen the supervision and management of environmental monitoring instruments, establish and improve the market-oriented mechanism and qualification certification and accreditation system for the operation of automatic environmental monitoring systems, and eliminate the negative impact of the chaos in the operation market. Timely improve the development plan and technical policy of environmental monitoring instruments, clarify the development direction of environmental monitoring instruments, guide and regulate the healthy development of environmental monitoring instruments, and avoid blind obedience of enterprises. A number of technical intermediary institutions with good technical foundation and authority should be established to test the technical level and quality status of environmental monitoring instruments and make them public. Implement an "access" system for special environmental monitoring instruments used for law enforcement monitoring.
In order to ensure the scientific, accurate and comparable environmental monitoring data, the formulation of environmental monitoring instrument standards should be strengthened, and environmental monitoring instrument standards should be incorporated into the environmental protection standard system, and unified planning and coordination with the formulation of environmental monitoring specifications, environmental analysis, and detection methods.
Accelerate the formulation of relevant laws and regulations for environmental monitoring work, and gradually establish regional environmental quality and pollution source monitoring automation network systems in some large and medium-sized cities. By organizing and implementing demonstration projects for the construction of environmental monitoring automation networks, we will drive the formation of China's automated environmental monitoring network system and expand the market demand for environmental monitoring instruments and equipment.