Measurement is the human understanding of the tool material around the world, is very important in the modern civilization of technology and management basis, the development of measuring instruments, involved in all walks of life, homes, went deep into every corner of human life.

Measuring instrument originally refers to the precision equipment used to measure pressure, flow rate and temperature of water, gas, electricity and oil.

Including thousands of products, in the last two decades of the century, with the development of microelectronics and communications technology.

According to scientific division, modern measurement includes scientific measurement, legal measurement and engineering measurement.

The task of scientific measurement is to develop and establish the basic standard device of measurement, ensure the transmission and traceability of measurement value, and provide the basic guarantee for legal measurement and engineering lecturers.

The task of legal measurement is to supervise the important measuring instruments and commercial quantity measurement Banks that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood in accordance with the law by the government metrological administrative department to ensure the accuracy of relevant measurement values.

Engineering measurement task is for the other measurement activities of the whole society quantity traceability, calibration, testing services, on the basis of our specific divided into geometric measurement, temperature measurement, measurement mechanics, electromagnetism measurement, optical measurement, acoustic measurement, electronics, measurement time and frequency metrology, ionizing radiation, chemical measurement.

At present, there are more than six thousand enterprises of all kinds of measuring instruments in our country, has formed relatively complete kinds of varieties, has a certain technology and production scale of industry system, to become Asia excluding Japan's second largest producer of measuring instruments and meters.

Since 1995, the general situation of China's measurement instrument industry has been developing forward.

Products such as miniaturization, integration, intelligence, bus pace to keep up with international development direction, emerge a batch of advanced technology of new products, a considerable scale of the rise of private enterprises, is the new force measuring instrument industry development in our country.

Should be clearly aware that though measuring instrument and meter industry in China has a certain development, but are not meet the scientific research of the national economy, national defense construction and social life each aspect such as the pressing needs of the growing, measuring instrument in our country, the vast majority of such belongs to the technical level, and the reliability, stability and other key indicators have not meet all requirements, high-grade, large instruments and equipment for almost all rely on imports, many of the key parts and components, intermediate products and foreign companies also occupies more than 60% of the domestic market.

Factors restricting the development of China's measurement instrument industry.

In China, the development of measuring instruments is lagging behind, and there are many problems. Facing a severe situation, the main factors are as follows:

First, the progress of scientific and technological innovation and its industrialization has been slow.

Modern metrology is optical, mechanical and electrical, computer, and many kinds of basic subject highly integrated product, is very sensitive to new technology, is a new technology in modern industrial product renewal frequency consciousness and the application of one of the categories of rapidly, every year there are a number of new product launch, especially in today's information age, increasingly fierce competition, the development speed slow down, will be left behind.

In today's already entered the 21st century, our country is measuring instrument is common at the international level in the early 1980 s, the large and high-grade instrument almost all rely on imports, many need special instruments or blank, low-standard products ensure the quality and there are many difficulties need to overcome.

Sluggish industrialization of scientific and technological innovation and its development, the development of measuring instrument and meter industry in China was restricted a "bottleneck" restricting the measuring instrument and meter industry science and technology innovation and development of our country lagging there are three main factors: the first is a serious shortage of funding;

The second is lack of talent.

The third is the lack of effective combination of official, productive, academic, research, comprehensive and practical.

2. Product stability and reliability have not been fundamentally solved for a long time.

China's measurement products, including industrial automation instrument system, communication instrument, etc., although the technical indicators are not far from the same products abroad, their stability and reliability are not high.

It greatly limits the scope and reliability of China's measurement products. The reasons are as follows:

(1) long-term neglect of research and development of basic technologies.

(2) the quality of domestic common parts and basic parts is not satisfactory.

(3) poor quality control and management of products by enterprises and unqualified product quality.

The old system constrained the development of enterprises

The old system is a common problem that restricts the development of China's economy, especially state-owned enterprises.

The instrumentation industry is no exception.

Quite a number of state-owned enterprises, due to long-term under the bondage of the old system, can't pull away from the historical burden of students, in the loss of vitality of the market competition, the production and operation and serious landslide, a large number of backbone enterprises, the struggle between life, therefore, to speed up the reform of the system is one of the important ways of development.

4. The development of metering instrument industry is restricted by the objective environment, which is mainly reflected in:

(1) excessive taxation.

Measurement with products enterprise, the general scale is not large, production batch is not much, total output and economic benefit is not high, but the modern measuring instruments and meters, to the national economy has a great pushing effect the incalculable double benefit.

The imposition of a 17 per cent VAT, 33 per cent income tax and the same percentage of duties on industries with such special attributes, as in other industries, is excessive.

(2) governments at all levels, including the competent departments of industry, as well as the departments of banking, taxation and industry and commerce, have insufficient understanding and support for the development of the metrological product industry.

(3) lack of purchasing policies to support the development of national industries.

(4) poor capability of China's basic industry.

Including the poor product quality, service ability and reputation ability, which directly affects the development of the industry.

Countermeasures and Suggestions to revitalize China's measurement instrument industry.

For the development of the revitalization of industry, the country should be made by the state planning commission, economic and trade commission, ministry of science and technology, ministry of finance and other relevant departments jointly negotiate the necessary supporting policies, modern measure a combination of a variety of high-tech achievements.

Development of modern measuring instruments and meters, must focus on top talent to invest large sums, so we need a batch of which shows the economic strength of famous brand of large companies, as the leading enterprises, promote the development of the industry at the same time as soon as possible to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and development of state-owned enterprises inject new vitality.

Because the instrument industry generally small, history is not long, so the "burden" is lighter, and easy to adjust the product structure, therefore, restructuring the difficulty is relatively small, suggested to speed up the pace of restructuring of state-owned enterprises, can put forward clear requirements, to promote the development of measuring instrument industry will have a positive role.