Localization of environmental testing instruments is just around the corner

More and more serious environmental problems make environmental protection imperative. The implementation of environmental protection requires equipment and equipment to help out. The current environmental protection situation is not optimistic. Environmental quality has a direct impact on the happiness index of the people. Governance requires testing instruments and equipment to produce scientific data, especially those polluting enterprises that pollute emissions.

The environmental monitoring instrument is a subdivision field of the instrument. It collects analytical data and obtains professional on-site analysis instruments for pollution sources and environmental background pollution. Today, China's environmental detection instruments and meters mainly include water, air, and soil. After more than ten years of development, the market for environmental monitoring instruments has gradually risen in the field of instrumentation. A number of domestic listed instrument companies, such as Concentration Technology, Xianhe Environmental Protection, Xuedilong, and Tianrui Instruments, have acquired the ability to compete with foreign companies on the same platform.

On July 9, China National Environmental Monitoring Center announced the list of qualified products for environmental air automatic monitoring and certification testing (as of July 9, 2013), including 13 companies including Thermo Fisher, Xianhe Environmental Protection and Concentration Technology. Product list. While proving the advantages of the company, it also reflects that there are only a few instrument manufacturers with large scale in China. At present, it is far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety and quantity.

In order to accelerate the pace of localization, the country has issued a corresponding procurement policy. Recently, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "Second Phase Monitoring Implementation Plan for New Air Quality Standards", which stipulates that areas that undertake the second phase of air quality monitoring and implementation tasks should give priority to selecting cost-effective monitoring equipment under the same conditions. Purchasing domestic equipment according to relevant requirements of government procurement.

With the support of policies, environmental monitoring equipment companies have full confidence in the development of domestically-made instruments. Concentration Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. CEO Yao Naxin pointed out at the 13th China International Environmental Protection Exhibition held recently that domestically produced monitoring equipment needs a mature process. At present, there may be gaps in the maturity and reliability of products compared to mature products from abroad, but the technical line is the same. This requires the market to give time to make domestic instruments more mature, stable, accurate, and reliable. . Domestic instruments are also fully able to meet the market's needs and applications, and domestic instruments are more cost-effective and better served.

According to Luo Yi, Director of the Department of Environmental Monitoring of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, some developed countries such as the United States, the European Union, and Japan have gradually established and improved corporate environmental information disclosure laws and regulations since the late 1980s. According to statistics from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, of the 13,352 state-controlled enterprises in China, 10,285 companies conducted self-monitoring, accounting for 67%. Of these, 20% used manual monitoring, 25% used automatic monitoring, and 55% used Manual and combined approach.

“It can be said that the company’s self-monitoring and information dissemination work has a certain basis. However, there are still major problems. First, companies are reluctant to take the initiative to disclose; Second, monitoring and disclosure are not standardized; Third, public disclosure is not convenient for public inquiry. Supervision." Luo Yi said.

At present, although there are a large number of self-monitoring companies, there is still a certain gap between the requirements for self-monitoring announced by the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and the rate of self-monitoring announced to exceed 80%, and the level of self-monitoring by enterprises is generally not high. Incomplete, especially for the monitoring of characteristic pollutants, monitoring methods are simple.