China's environmental protection instrumentation market development status and prospects

Environmental protection has received more and more attention from people of all countries. While concentrating on economic development, China has also listed environmental protection as a basic national policy. However, due to the weak foundation of environmental management in China, investment in capital has also been reduced. Not large enough, there is a big gap between the actual demand and potential demand of the environmental protection industry. Environmental monitoring instrumentation equipment, which is the basis of environmental protection, is still far from meeting the needs of development. Environmental protection instruments and meters have a lot of room for development.

China's environmental protection instrumentation market development status and prospects, environmental science monitoring instrumentation is the basis for the transmission of environmental protection source information, but also a necessary means for environmental quality assessment, monitoring and environmental science management, while environmental protection instrumentation is also the realization of environmental protection equipment electromechanical integration , to improve the pollution control equipment, an important part of the level of automation. With the introduction of environmental protection laws and regulations, environmental protection law enforcement will continue to increase, and investment in environmental protection will continue to increase. The environmental protection industry will become a new growth point for the national economy. According to incomplete statistics, the output value of China's environmental protection instrumentation and monitoring system was approximately 1.17 billion yuan in 1998, increasing to 4.2 billion yuan in 2005, and will increase to 11 billion yuan in 2010. It can be seen that environmental protection instrumentation industry will usher in unprecedented opportunities for development, and its market prospects are very broad.

The main market demand for environmental protection instrumentation

Environmental protection instruments are mainly used in environmental quality monitoring and pollution source monitoring. For our country's specific national conditions, environmental protection is mainly to solve China's water environment, atmospheric environment, two strategic and overall environmental pollution problems. Specifically, the main requirements for environmental protection instrumentation are as follows:

(1) Environmental quality monitoring. At present, the national environmental protection system and various departments, industries, and enterprises have built more than 4,000 monitoring stations, employing more than 60,000 employees, and many environmental research institutes. In recent years, it is the period of environmental science and monitoring and analysis instruments, equipment replacement and upgrading. The National Environmental Protection Agency plans to equip the country with more than 400 national network monitoring stations; more than 350 environmental information centers: 100 urban air ground automatic monitoring systems. Initial plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan, of which two-thirds of state investment, one-third of local investment. This does not include the investment in the capacity building of monitoring stations in industries, localities and enterprises, and various departments and localities have their own investment plans according to the needs of environmental protection tasks.

(2) Monitoring of pollution sources: The state shall implement the control and reduction of the total discharge of major pollutants to 18,000 key polluting enterprises across the country to improve the quality of the environment. Therefore, 18,000 large polluters are required to gradually install on-line continuous automatic monitoring systems. There are few mature domestic instrument systems, and the demand is much greater than the environmental quality monitoring, which is mainly purchased by polluting companies. The industries are mainly electric power, petrochemicals, building materials, metallurgy, paper making, food and urban sewage treatment plants, and the potential market is from several billion to tens of billions of yuan.

(3) Remote Sensing Telemetering Instrumentation: The State proposes a principle of equal emphasis on environmental pollution prevention and ecological environment protection. To strengthen ecological environmental protection, we must monitor the ecological environment in China. Including monitoring of deserts, grasslands, forests, oceans, and agro-ecological environments, it is also necessary to carry out remote sensing telemetry of air pollution, water pollution (such as ocean red tide, oil spill pollution) and pollution sources, and to establish satellite ground receiving systems and satellite image analysis. The system analyzes the current status and changing trends of environmental ecological quality, and provides scientific basis for national environmental protection and construction.

At present, domestic urgently needed environmental protection instruments and meters mainly include:

Atmospheric environment quality monitoring equipment and automatic monitoring system; monitoring system for flue gas analysis instruments represented by coal-fired power stations or boilers; surface water environmental quality inspection instruments and monitoring systems; pollution sources represented by urban sewage treatment plants and high-concentration organic wastewater Monitoring instruments and automatic control systems.

Main problems of China's environmental protection instrumentation market

At present, most of the environmental monitoring instruments and meters produced in China are middle-to-low-grade products, which have a single function, high failure rate, low added value, and far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety and quantity. When used, there are problems such as low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, and inaccurate monitoring data. These problems not only affect the scientific decision-making of environmental management and the seriousness of law enforcement, but also tend to dampen the enthusiasm of enterprises for pollution control and environmental protection. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments, and automatic monitoring systems are mostly introduced from abroad, so the share of domestic instruments is very small. There are several main reasons why this situation is caused:

(1) The operating system of the enterprise is not perfect, and the trend of convergence tends to be serious. It is manifested in the existence of problems in the operating mechanism of large-scale state-owned enterprises, which can not play a good role in the backbone; many SMEs flock to the market, lack of technology, lack of funds, and low level of repetition. In many cases, the quality and performance of the instrument cannot be counterbalanced by imported instruments.

(2) The product structure is irrational. There is a shortage of high-tech products, and the oversupply of low-end products has contradictions between supply and demand, and it is unable to adapt to strict environmental management needs. At present, the environment monitoring instrument industry is small in scale, backward in technology, and disorderly in competition, and in particular, problems such as unstable technical performance and low level of integration have led to the oversupply of middle- and low-end products, as well as high-quality and high-performance environmental protection instruments. There is no domestic production, and most of them rely on imports.

(3) Low research and development capabilities. The research and development capabilities of Chinese companies are still not much different from those of foreign companies. At the same time, there is also a lack of mechanisms for close cooperation between research institutes and enterprises. Scientific research results cannot be quickly realized in industrialization. The government's investment in developing and developing environmental science instruments and venture capital are also insufficient.

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.

Development countermeasures of China's environmental protection instrumentation industry

The development of environmental protection instrumentation industry must first fully consider the national conditions of our country. Environmental monitoring equipment suitable for China's national conditions should have the following characteristics: 1, cheap, low maintenance costs. 2, can adapt to a variety of harsh conditions. 3, easy to maintain, easy to operate. 4, stable operation, strong anti-interference ability. On the basis of fully considering China's national conditions, we must also grasp the development trend of environmental protection instrumentation. Relevant experts believe that the development trend of China's environmental monitoring equipment has the following points: 1. Towards the development of automation, intelligence, and networking in Sanhua; 2. From labor-intensive to technology-intensive development; 3. From narrower areas. Monitoring and development of monitoring in all directions; 4. Development of simple ground environment monitoring combined with remote sensing environmental monitoring.

Combined with the above analysis of the main issues of China's environmental protection instrumentation industry, we hereby make several suggestions:

(1) Increase scientific research investment. 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.

(2) To promote the reorganization of production enterprises, improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and accelerate the process of localization of high-tech products. The use of market control measures to promote the restructuring of enterprises, and gradually change the monitoring equipment production technology is weak, scattered investment, low-level duplication, low market competitiveness, to achieve appropriate scale of intensive production, the formation of a number of monitoring equipment production backbone enterprises . 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.

(3) Increase the supervision and management of environmental monitoring instruments and accelerate the formulation and improvement of relevant laws and regulations. Establish and improve the operational marketization mechanism and qualification accreditation system of the environmental automatic monitoring system to eliminate the negative impact caused by the chaos in 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. 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.