Driven by strong market demand, under the guidance of the national macro-control policies in recent years, our steam flow sheet showing a rapid and healthy development momentum. On the basis of a few days ago, the former chairman of the China Instrument Industry Association Xi Jiacheng in an interview with reporters expected 2007 production and marketing of instrumentation industry in 2006, over 200 billion yuan, an increase is somewhat lower, but will remain at a high level , and the increase in profits also will continue to be greater than the increase of production and marketing. In the country to revitalize the equipment manufacturing a broad policy guidelines, the industry-wide capacity for independent innovation will be further enhanced.

Profits rose faster than sales growth

Xi Jiacheng forecast, the 2007 industry-wide sales increased 20 percent to 23 percent, down four percentage points over 2006, according to historical data, it is still rapid growth; profit increase of 25% to about 5 percentage points lower than in 2006 , but still greater than the sales growth. In his view, is particularly worth mentioning is that the instrumentation industry profit growth for several years higher than the increase of production and marketing, mainly due to the industry, scientific and technological progress, product structure adjustment effective. This is also reflected in the industrial added value associated with this increase greater than 10 percent of the sales growth in 2006, and 2007 will still be greater than the sales growth of 5 to 8 percentage points. Xi Jiacheng said that the good momentum of development of the instrumentation industry is the national macro-control be achieved, that is in gentle decline in sales growth at the same time, does not affect or less affect the growth of the industry profit. Today, improving product technology content, adjustment of product structure, increase the value-added products has become the main measures of the whole industry, including foreign-funded enterprises to maintain and increase profits. A few years ago that in order to expand scale, increase the production of steam flow meter , increasing investment-based development model will be further suppressed.

Total imports and exports continue to grow

In the past two years, China's import and export value of the instrumentation in continuous growth, while an increase was decreased. Xi Jiacheng summarized the main cause of the decline of the import growth: First, the technological progress of their enterprise; the second is the rapid development of foreign-funded enterprises; three macro-control measures. Representation of products such as industrial automation, instrumentation DCS imports year-on-year decrease of 23%; in recent years, rapid technological progress, domestic digital surveying and mapping equipment, supply of instrumentation, testing machines, scales, optical instruments, such as imports have become negative growth or twelve percent of the micro- growth; excessive imports of medical equipment import previous stage of health care reform distorted into negative growth. On the other hand, imports of electronic measuring instruments remain more than an increase of 30 percent of automated instrumentation and control system for imports also increased by over 20%, reflecting strong demand for our automation and information technology equipment. Xi Jiacheng expected by the macro-control, exchange rate changes, the development of domestic industries, and other factors, instrumentation, imports will remain at 2006 levels in 2007, an increase of about 15%. He predicted that export growth in 2007 will decline by 2 percentage points, about 26%. However, due to the instrumentation of the total export value accounted for a quarter of industry sales revenue, therefore, any one o'clock fluctuations, exchange rate movements in overseas markets and many other factors will be to export impact. He also pointed out that of individual export billions of dollars of competitive products watt-hour meter, more than one fifth of the occupation of the world market continue to expand our difficulties, another staple export product gas meter the lowest volume, vicious competition and improve the quality of the steam flow sheet to improve product quality, standardize the market, must be of concern.