In recent years, China's instrumentation industry has developed rapidly and the market demand is huge. The quality and quantity of scientific instruments have improved significantly. Last year, the total export volume of scientific instruments exceeded the 10 billion US dollars mark for the first time. However, the gratifying of the market does not mean that the relevant companies in the country are happy.

Although the total export volume of scientific instruments is gratifying, we will not be so optimistic when compared with another figure. According to data provided by relevant professionals, although China's scientific instrument industry has a strong export, the total import volume is even greater, and the import and export deficit has exceeded US$10 billion, and this deficit is gradually increasing. According to recent related reports, Yan Zengxuan, the secretary general of the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association, said that the export volume of the instrumentation industry in June had a negative year-on-year growth, and that the profit growth of the instrument and meter industry could reach the expected 14% could not be confirmed this year.

According to the results of a special survey conducted by the China Instrument and Metering Society on the development of the Chinese scientific instrument industry, in 2010, exports of Chinese scientific instruments showed a strong recovery momentum, reaching US$6.341 billion, but the total import volume of the industry was even larger, reaching 15.73 billion yuan. In the U.S. dollar, the import and export deficit reached 9.39 billion U.S. dollars. By 2011, exports of scientific instruments reached US$7.102 billion, an increase of 12.0%; imports remained strong, reaching US$20.748 billion, and the import and export deficit exceeded US$10 billion for the first time, reaching US$13.646 billion.

According to statistics, at present, there are more than 1,000 scientific instrument manufacturers in China, most of which have a production value of less than 10 million yuan. There are more than 200 analytical instrument manufacturers, but only a few million yuan in output value. Related industry sources said that in order to survive, companies competed for prices in the fierce market competition, reduced profit margins, reduced the ability of R & D investment, resulting in a weak trend in the development of the entire scientific instrument market.

For this situation in the current market, people in the industry have to worry about how to make the domestic instrumentation industry move toward a sound development path, and quickly shorten the gap with the international leading level, it is the people in the industry should jointly consider.