How The China's Scientific Instruments Industry Grew Up

    June 1, 2009, "The People's Republic of ChinaSPR systems, China is still blank. These high-end
Food Safety Law" will be officially implemented. Lastequipment, internationally renowned company has a
year, melamine incident and let the Chinese dairynumber of patented technologies to protect.
industry suffered a heavy blow to food security hasAt present, almost all the famous international scientific
become the focus of unprecedented attention to theinstrument companies in Shanghai, Suzhou, Kunshan
public; and scientific instrumentation industries, on a quietand other places to establish a large-scale production
derive tremendous business opportunities.and R & D base to absorb our professionals to
But the analytical instruments in China, executivecarry out local production in China. Them to technology,
director of Institute Professor Jiang Shiqiang it, thiscapital and talent advantage, not only occupied the
does not mean that our country's scientific instrumentshigh-end market, but also produce significant
industry, so prospects are good. "Our situation is grimperformance advantages for mid-range to participate
scientific instruments industry is also faced within bidding and purchasing my equipment, squeezing
external compression and internal cut-throatdomestic enterprises and start-ups of new products.
competition." In the recently held 2009 annual meetingMy form has not been closely integrated with
of the development of scientific instruments in China,production and research of scientific instruments and
Shi-Qiang Jiang on China's scientific instrumentsinnovative mechanisms, common scientific instruments
expressed concern about development of the industry.of research and development results, while the rare
About 300 billion market demand for Chinesenew products to market and greatly enhance the
enterprises to sub-cups of souptechnical performance of existing products. Enterprise
"For inspection, detection and analysis of scientifictechnology foundation of China's scientific instruments
instruments and equipment in the food security systemthin, weak R & D of new products, are crowded
technical support, food security needs of the scientificin a few varieties. In today's highly competitive market
instruments the existence dependency." Shi-Qiangconditions, the lack of healthy competition within the
Jiang said. Shandong Province alone, for example, inindustry norms, for the sake of survival, subject to the
order to supplement the 16 prefecture-level cities andconstraints of profit margins had to reduce the
29 county dairy farming, the province's 11.25 million yuanperformance of competing prices down, resulting in
last year, the use of financial allocations for thevicious competition.
purchase of high-performance liquid chromatographyChina's urgent need to build scientific instrument
detection of melamine and related equipment; In theinnovation system
meantime, Shanxi Taiyuan government emergencyIn the Shi-Qiang Jiang, the country's investment in
funding for the acquisition of 4 million yuan melamineresearch and development of scientific instruments,
equipment.lack of dislocation production and research as a whole,
At present, China and food safety supervision directlysupport the policy of industrial development of scientific
related to the four major sectors - agriculture, qualityinstruments missing. He suggested that should be
inspection, industrial, commercial and health sector - aremarket-oriented, with enterprises as the core, the
accelerating the building of the appropriate inspectionmodel combines production and research with the
and testing system. China had a weak foundation inestablishment of China's innovation system of scientific
this regard, we now have a great investment.instruments to accelerate the industrialization of China's
Shi-Qiang Jiang gave a conservative estimate: Thelevel of scientific instruments, "This is to build China's
above four departments and local investment in thefood safety system in the strategic decision-making. "
past 23 years will total about 300 billion yuan, and this isShi-Qiang Jiang believe that first of all, as soon as
also not a direct investment in food productionpossible to construct production and research with a
enterprises. Approximately 70% of these investmentscombination of scientific instruments, research and
for more than for the purchase of variousdevelopment center. He said: "China in '863 ', '973',
departments, at all levels and safety inspection of foodNatural Science Foundation, the research project,
and agricultural institutions of scientific instruments andsupported by the project have to invest some funds
equipment.to develop the scientific instruments to explore and get
Shi-Qiang Jiang said: "In the face of about 300 billion ofa lot of results. Today the building of the key R &
market demand, due to China's scientific instrumentsD center is not to discuss , but rather the organization
industry is still immature stages so far, the majorand coordination; does not lie in how much longer, but
international companies are using a variety of powerfulrather how to tap in all areas and departments of the
'combination punches' of scientific instruments in thepotential; is not the timing, but rather immediate action.
control of our high-end market. Today, China's food"In his view, optimizing the project should be defined as
safety system, the main technical support for -far in China is still blank, an urgent need and can get rid
scientific instruments and equipment is still dependentof dependence on the developed projects, such as
on the developed countries. This security system ismass spectrometry and micro-organisms, pathogens
bound with the developed countries, rising food safetyautomatic identification systems.
standards and the level of skills picked up the pace of    Shi-Qiang Jiang also suggested that the State
scientific instruments, not only investment endless, butDevelopment and Reform Commission, Science and
overall, because the basis of control of others is veryTechnology, Ministry of Finance join forces to give
dangerous. "financial and policy to foster multi-faceted, optimization
Scientific instruments industry "both internal andhave good market prospects, demand urgent, and
external"they have foundation, has made scientific
Shi-Qiang Jiang to reporters describe the scientificachievements in urgent need of industrial-oriented
instruments industry in China, "both internal andproject to establish scientific instruments, industrial base,
external" situation.such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent instrument and
Food safety is a large number of samples is verykit, ICP, portable laser Raman instrument, SPR device,
complex in its substrate under the conditions of testingbio-chip technology platforms and kits, as well as
micrograms, ng or pg-level residues of the equipmentportable microfluidic chip system.
used in very demanding.Shi-Qiang Jiang's final suggestion is: first choice, or
China's relatively low technical performance ofseveral types of unique and well-established and the
scientific instruments, so the above prefecture-levelmarket prospects of scientific instruments and the
cities of food safety inspection and testing center, forcorresponding business, as a pilot to establish industry
the sake of convergence with international standardsalliances, establish mutual interaction, the basis of
and requirements, the main instruments and equipmentcompetition and harmonious industrial chain. With the
is almost imported.food safety inspection, testing directly related to, he
Many high-end scientific instruments in China is still insuggested that we first set about establishing the
the blank. Today a single price of 50 million yuan, infollowing Industry Alliance: chromatography and gas
particular the price at one million to 250 million in criticalchromatography - mass spectrometry Industry
equipment, such as high-performance chromatographyAlliance; atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence
/ mass spectrometer, spectrum / MS-MS, amino acidIndustry Alliance; biochemical apparatus Industry
analyzer, pathogenic bacteria Identification System,Alliance; Sample pre-treatment equipment Industry
GPC systems, and high-grade centrifuges,Alliance; reagent products industry alliances; site rapid
electrophoresis systems, quantitative PCR instrument,detection equipment industry alliance.