2013 instrument and meter industry growth will reach 18%

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to October, instrument and meter manufacturing industry realized a main income of 607.47 billion yuan, an increase of 15.5% year-on-year; main activity profit was 43.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%.

Although the trend of the instrument and meter industry is relatively good this year, Ji Jiacheng, Honorary Chairman of the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association reminded me that the era of most companies’ continuous growth in double-digit growth in production, sales, and profits has passed. The industry has entered “a few companies have developed faster. The majority of companies are flat or low-speed growth, with about 20% of companies losing money in the new era.

Instruments and meters refer to instruments or devices used to detect, measure, observe, and calculate various physical quantities, material compositions, and physical parameters. Vacuum leak detectors, pressure gauges, length measuring instruments, and microscopes are instrumental instruments. The instrumentation industry is a modern high-tech industry. Many countries regard it as a priority development industry.

After years of rapid development, since 2008, due to the impact of the international financial crisis, the amount of orders in China's instrumentation industry has sharply decreased. According to the industrial data of the former October released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the growth rate of instrument and meter manufacturing ranks first. Jia Jiacheng said that this means that the instrumentation industry has recovered from the crisis and entered a slow recovery period.

Since the beginning of this year, the growth rate of the instrumentation industry has been higher than that of most manufacturing industries, which has mainly benefited from the country's promotion of economic restructuring, support for scientific and technological progress, and attention to people's livelihood and other related policies and measures. Specifically, production and sales accounted for about 40% of the industry's industrial automation instrumentation and control systems due to increased demand for industrial upgrading, the increase rate is higher than the whole industry by 2%; instruments such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, education, automotive, medical, etc. have all increased by more than 20 %; the increase in electronic instruments, experimental analysis, and other scientific instruments was close to 20%.

While the growth of production and sales rebounded, the profit growth of the industry's main activities was not high. In this regard, some experts believe that the reasons are many. First, labor costs have risen rapidly, and management and operating costs have remained high, resulting in higher costs for the industry than for production and sales. Second, most companies do not have sufficient demand and economies of scale have declined. Industrialization of high-tech products has only been effective in a few enterprises. In addition, one-third of the 20 sub-sectors have negative or negative growth year-over-year profits, including optical instruments, exploration seismographs, and meteorological and oceanic instruments; all have negative double-digit growth; experimental analysis, supply meters, etc. increase only 3% to 7 %.

At present, the domestic instrumentation industry is facing fierce market competition, and the gap between it and the international advanced level is still significant. It is understood that the shortcomings of the entire industry are mainly manifested in two aspects. On the one hand, advances in the field of industrial automation are mostly concentrated on measurement and control equipment for process industries, while sensors, controllers, servo systems, and control and control software for discrete industries are weak and slow to develop, which will seriously affect the automation of manufacturing industries in China. Digital, intelligent development. On the other hand, scientific instruments are small and technically difficult, while foreign product technology and application maturity are high. In addition to individual varieties, domestic high-end products have few breakthroughs.

"Like many manufacturing industries, the quality of products is not high, and the backward mode of production and low efficiency are common problems for most of the instrumentation and meter companies." Yan Jiacheng said that with the implementation of the integration policy, the above situation began to change, industrial automation and electrician The instrument industry's enterprises have made rapid progress and the results have begun to show. Some enterprises have set up informatized institutions and full-time personnel, and hired foreign technical experts to pay high salaries. The early start-up companies have started to integrate the modern production model to promote the production process informatization, and established the enterprise information management as the core. System, the implementation of the production of orders, traceable production, in order to improve the quality of connotation, to deal with a new round of competition.

Regarding the trend of the whole year, relevant experts in the industry predict that if there is no accidental export, the annual increase in production and sales of the industry will exceed the forecast value at the beginning of the year by 16%, reaching about 18%.