1. Key Areas

During the 15th Five Year Plan period, the key areas for the development of China's instrumentation industry are:

① Industrial automation instruments and systems

A. The development and industrialization of the new generation of main control systems and their integrated automation mainly include distributed control systems, fieldbus control systems, and development based control systems based on industrial computers;

B. Advanced control and optimization software development and industrialization mainly include advanced control technology, process optimization technology, real-time monitoring software platform, information integration software platform, system integration technology, etc;

C. Development and industrialization of intelligent instruments, actuators and transmitters, complete sets of specialized control devices, and complete sets of specialized optimization systems;

② Scientific instruments

A. Chromatography instruments, improving separation technology, and developing miniature specialized chromatography instruments with international standards;

B. Spectral instruments, with a focus on developing internationally competitive plasma spectrometers, near-infrared spectrometers, and small-scale photometers with large quantities and wide coverage;

C. Agricultural and food specific instruments, with a focus on tackling specialized instruments and phase technologies to improve quality and pesticide residue detection levels;

D. Specialized instruments for environment and energy, with a focus on complete sets of environmental detection instruments including online and warning systems, and the development of nuclear magnetic resonance logging equipment with independent intellectual property rights;

E. The focus of life science instruments is on the development of chip laboratories and high-sensitivity reagent kits;

F. The development of software platforms aims to achieve standardization and normalization of instrument data acquisition, processing, and analysis methods, and to improve the overall design level of scientific instruments;

③ Medical equipment

A. Research and develop various automated biochemical analysis and testing instruments;

B. Research and develop various diagnostic instruments, including physical observation and imaging, such as lasers, ultrasound, X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, etc;

④ Electronic and electrical measuring instruments and meters

A. Integrated circuit automatic testing system;

B. Communication, computer, network measurement technology and testing systems;

C. Microwave and millimeter wave measurement and testing systems;

D. Electrical automatic testing system and equipment;

E. Electrical instruments and meters that can be exported in large quantities, such as electricity meters, digital multimeters, etc;

⑤ Sensors, components, and instrument materials

A. Pressure, humidity, flow, and liquid level sensors for fieldbus and intelligent instruments; Multi functional sensors for environmental protection and other fields; Microsensors required in the aerospace industry;

B. Special elastic components; Various counters used in fields such as CNC machine tools, textile machinery, automation instruments, and civilian automobiles; Semiconductor specific circuits (ASICs) and thick film circuits;

C. Key research and development of various new materials for instrument materials, including thin film, miniaturization, fibrosis, powdering, compounding, multifunctionality, material component integration, intelligence, etc;

⑥ Strengthen the basic technology of instruments and meters, especially the research on common technologies to improve stability and reliability.

2. Strategic Objectives

Through policy guidance, encourage resources such as funds and process talents to invest in the instrumentation industry, accelerate the development of the instrumentation industry, and strive to achieve the following strategic goals within 5 to 10 years:

① China's instrumentation industry, including industrial automation instruments and systems, scientific instruments, medical instruments, various measuring instruments and related sensors, components and materials, has research and development and production capabilities that have reached or are close to the international level of the early 21st century;

③ In various major fields of instrumentation, a new batch of approximately 18 to 20 engineering technology centers and industrialization bases will be established to vigorously promote technological innovation in instrumentation and accelerate the industrialization of innovative achievements;

④ Cultivate and develop a total of no less than 30 production bases and key enterprises with comprehensive strength and considerable scale in various major fields of instrumentation. In leading and promoting the development of China's instrumentation industry, production bases and key enterprises will fully play a leading role;

⑤ Support and develop a group of instrument and meter system integration companies, quickly gather strength within 5 to 10 years, and be able to contract automation projects in various large-scale and important projects such as steel, petroleum, chemical, power, and environmental protection, promoting the rapid development of China's instrument and meter industry.

In order to achieve the above strategic goals, the country must increase investment in the development of the instrumentation industry.