The development of the testing instrument industry needs to break through four bottlenecks

According to customs statistics, excluding the testing instruments caused by the complete set of engineering projects, the total amount of various types of testing instruments imported each year is close to 50% of the total output value of my country's testing instrument industry. In addition, among the more than 6,000 companies, less than 1,000 have annual sales revenue exceeding 10 million yuan, and the economic benefits of the entire industry are ineffective.
According to analysis, the current "bottlenecks" that restrict the development of my country's testing instrument industry are mainly concentrated in the following four aspects: Scientific and technological innovation and industrialization progress is slow. my country's testing instrument industry has been much slower than the international trend in scientific and technological innovation and industrialization, and the situation is very serious. Today, as we have entered the 21st century, the general level of testing instruments in my country is still at the international level in the early 1980s; large and instruments and equipment rely almost all on imports; many urgently needed special instruments are still blank; there are still many difficulties in ensuring quality of medium and low-end products. The slow progress of scientific and technological innovation and its industrialization is a "bottleneck" restricting the development of my country's testing instrument industry. The main factors restricting the slow progress of scientific and technological innovation and its industrialization in my country are: The investment in scientific research funds is seriously insufficient. The development funds used by international testing instrument companies for scientific and technological innovation generally exceed 10% of the annual sales, while my country's testing instrument companies not only have low sales, but the development funds used for scientific and technological innovation generally do not exceed 3% of the annual sales. In comparison, the investment in scientific research funds of enterprises is pitifully small. Second, the lack of talents and large-scale loss have become serious obstacles to scientific and technological innovation and industrialization in the testing instrument industry, especially in state-owned enterprises.

There are also many adverse factors in the external objective environment that restrict the development of my country's testing instrument industry and are over-tasked. Testing instrument companies are generally not large in scale, with small production batches, and the total output value and economic benefits are not high. However, modern testing instruments have a huge driving effect on the national economy and will produce immeasurable "double" benefits. Therefore, industry insiders believe that for the testing instrument industry with such special attributes, 17% VAT is imposed, just like other industries, and 33% income tax and the same proportion of tariffs are over-heavy, which to a considerable extent restricts the scientific and technological development and expansion of reproduction of enterprises. Second, for many years, governments at all levels, including the competent departments of the testing instrument industry, as well as banks, taxation, industry and commerce and other departments, still lack awareness and support for the importance and urgency of developing the testing instrument industry. Third, there is a lack of procurement policies to support the development of the ethnic testing instrument industry. Fourth, my country's basic industry capabilities are poor, including poor product quality, service capabilities and credibility capabilities, which directly affects the development of the testing instrument industry. We must break through these four bottlenecks. Industry experts believe that the country should formulate relevant policies to encourage the development of the testing instrument industry as soon as possible, and at the same time, it should support and develop a number of key enterprises within 5 to 10 years, which is also of strategic significance to revitalizing my country's testing instrument industry. In addition, state-owned enterprises in testing instruments should implement reforms as soon as possible, which will inject new vitality into the development of the testing instrument industry.
Third, there is a lack of effective combination of official, production, education, research, finance and use. In the past, it was only advocated for the combination of industry, academia and research, and there were few successful examples, without the intervention of the official and financial circles and users (the financial circles referred to here can also be corporate or private capital). In the current situation faced by my country's testing instrument companies, it is extremely difficult to successfully achieve industrialization. The product stability and reliability problems are prominent. The main products of various test instruments produced in my country, including industrial automation instruments and systems, communication instruments, etc. Although the technical indicators are not very different from similar foreign products, the stability and reliability issues have not been fundamentally solved for a long time, which has become a serious obstacle to the development of my country's testing instrument industry. The reasons are: First, the research and development of basic technologies have been neglected for a long time; second, the quality of domestic general parts and basic parts is not up to standard; third, the company's quality control and management of products is not effective. Product quality is not up to standard, and accelerating the development of the testing instrument industry can only be a paper talk. The old system has bound the development of the enterprise. Research shows that a considerable number of key testing instrument enterprises invested and built by the state have lost their vitality in market competition because they cannot get rid of the constraints of the old system, and have experienced serious declines in production and operations. At the same time, a large number of private, joint ventures and joint-stock enterprises, due to their reasonable system and flexible operation, have rapidly risen in market competition and become an emerging force in my country's testing instrument industry. It should be noted that testing instrument companies are generally not large in scale, have little history, have light burdens, are not difficult to adjust their product structure, and the restructuring problem is relatively easy to solve. The implementation of the reform of testing instrument enterprises as soon as possible, mainly state-owned backbone enterprises, is one of the important ways to accelerate the development of my country's testing instrument industry.