China first produced microscopes during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. In view of the difficulty in importing simple telescopes and microscopes at that time, under the leadership of, Qian, Lin Youbao and others set up a small optical workshop in Yunnan, where foreign factories were responsible for processing metal parts, making hundreds of high-power microscopes including oil-immersed objective lenses and distributing them to teaching, medical care and engineering construction units in the rear area of the Anti-Japanese War. This is the first batch of microscopes produced in China. After liberation, Chongqing Optical Factory has a strong technical force in China. Because of the superiority of the socialist system, everyone is state-owned, and there is not much secrecy among manufacturers. Soon, most provinces in China have established their own optical factories, among which the most powerful ones are Shanghai Optical Factory, Nanjing Jiangnan Optical Factory, Chongqing Optical Instrument Factory, Guangzhou Optical Factory and Guilin Optical Factory.
After the reform and development, due to the complicated manufacturing process of microscope industry, it is difficult for township enterprises to enter for a while, so most microscope production enterprises continue to develop, and some are still living well. However, due to the entry of foreign capital, many changes have taken place in the domestic microscope industry.
MOTIC is the first brand of microscope in China. It was invested and built in the 1990s when Hong Kong acquired the former Xiamen Optical Instrument Factory. At present, many processing bases have been established in China, trademarks have been registered in many foreign countries and companies or offices have been set up. We also cooperated with Guiyang Xintian, an old optical instrument factory, and established a new factory in Guiyang. MOTIC also began to have a certain popularity abroad and became the representative of China microscope. MOTIC wants to become the fifth largest brand microscope in the world, and they have been working hard, but there is still a long way to go. The design and processing of microscope, especially the objective lens, is very challenging and needs years of accumulation and continuous investment. At present, MOTIC is very strong in digital microscope and microscopic digital interaction, and recently it has introduced an electron microscope. Because of the guaranteed system and capital investment, MOTIC has invested more in R&D than other domestic manufacturers. Some models such as metallographic microscope and inverted microscope are also good, ahead of other domestic manufacturers. In addition, MOTIC has set up dozens of branches and offices in China, and its direct sales and strong marketing capabilities are also a major advantage of MOTIC. In recent years, the sales of microscopes have exceeded 100 million.
Yongxin Optics is almost the second largest microscope brand in China, including Ningbo Yongxin and Jiangnan Yongxin. Yongxin optics is also invested by Hong Kong. In 1990s, Ningbo Optical Factory was acquired, and Ningbo Yongxin was established, producing all kinds of optical microscopes and exporting more. After 2000, Yongxin Optics acquired Jiangnan Optoelectronics, a well-known domestic company, and changed its name to Jiangnan Yongxin. Jiangnan optoelectronics inherited the team of Jiangnan optoelectronics. Jiangnan Optoelectronics is a large professional microscope and photoelectric instrument manufacturer with more than 60 years of experience in manufacturing microscopes. In 1980s, we successively contracted the objective lens and low-end microscope to famous foreign microscope manufacturers such as Leica and Nikon, and accumulated a lot of technical and technological experience. Its biological microscope, metallographic microscope and polarizing microscope are all advanced in China. However, the overall impression is still like the previous state-owned enterprises, and the investment in R&D is not large. They are all living on their laurels, and there is no obvious technological progress.
Chongqing Optoelectronic is a truly old-fashioned optical factory in China, which was established in 1958, producing series microscopes of biology, inversion, fluorescence, stereology and metallography, among which the inversion biological microscope and metallographic microscope are more powerful in China. The development of Shigemitsu today is still due to institutional reasons. The progress is slow, the brain drain is serious, and it feels downhill, but the thin camel is bigger than the horse. Now they have set up branches and offices in many places in China for direct sales.
Jiangxi Phoenix Optics is an old factory of military transformation, and its optical processing is also relatively strong. Phoenix camera is a famous brand in China. With the development of digital cameras, the domestic camera industry is almost wiped out, and there are almost only one or two Phoenix Optics. Unfortunately, digital SLR has become popular, and Phoenix Optics has not seen this action for a long time, which is a good opportunity. Phoenix microscope should be only a small part of Phoenix optics. In recent years, several biomicroscopes have been introduced, one or two of which still have some bright spots, while others are of average overall quality.
Guilin Optical Factory has been renamed as Guilin David Optical Instrument Co., Ltd., and they almost specialize in producing stereoscopic microscopes. Therefore, Guiguang's stereo microscope is the best in China, with relatively clear images, and some aspects are close to the low-end products of well-known foreign manufacturers. In recent years, Guiguang has introduced a high-end stereo microscope with parallel light path, with a zoom ratio of 1: 9, and also made coaxial illumination. At the same time, there are also some private enterprises that produce stereoscopic microscopes near Guilin, grabbing the domestic stereoscopic microscope market alone.
Guangzhou Optical Factory is now renamed Guangzhou Yuexian Optical Instrument Co., Ltd., which was founded by Chongqing Optical Factory in 1950s. Series microscopes for production biology, stereology and metallography. The overall domestic product quality is quite satisfactory, and the quality is relatively stable. Compared with thousands of factories in Shigemitsu and Jiangguang, the proportion of Guangguang is small, only 300 to 400, so the burden is relatively small. In addition, the restructuring was relatively early and it is still developing healthily today. Recently, guangguang has also been increasing. At present, more than 80% of their microscopes are exported, and not much is done in China, so although it is an old factory, it is not well-known in China.
Zhejiang Sunshine is the earliest private enterprise involved in optical cold processing in China, which has strong strength in optical lens processing and a large amount of lens exports every year. The production of optical lenses will naturally turn to the production of microscopes at a certain time. There are a series of biological microscopes, inverted microscopes, stereoscopic microscopes and metal microscopes in Yu Shun, many of which are obviously imitations of imported microscopes, and there are some disputes among them. However, it is really not easy for a private enterprise to achieve today after more than ten or twenty years of development. At present, Yu Shun microscope has a certain sales volume in China and is still used in industry.
Beijing Tektronix is also a microscope manufacturer with certain production strength, mainly producing stereoscopic microscopes. Products are mainly exported, and there are also some sales networks in China. Shenzhen Maite was founded by a part of the former Guilin Glasses Company and the capital of Shenzhen. Its single-cylinder vision microscope has good quality and large sales in the industrial field. Wuzhou Oka Microscope Factory also has certain strength in stereoscopic microscope. Chongqing Aote was founded by some technicians and sales staff of the former Chongqing Glasses Factory, and established its own sales channels. The products are basically the same as those of Shigemitsu, but recently several new microscopes designed by ourselves have been introduced. Wuhu Optical Instrument Factory has rich experience in producing comparative microscopes and occupies a place in forensic microscopes. Guiyang Xintian, founded by Shanghai Optical Factory in 1960s, is second to none in the research, development and production of domestic tool microscopes. However, due to changes in geographical location, system and market, it is not as good as before.
Ningbo and its surrounding areas are the most concentrated places of microscope production in China at present. There are more than a dozen companies that produce various microscopes. Among them, in addition to Ningbo Yongxin and Ningbo Yu Shun, there are Ningjiao, Yujie and Shengheng. Because most of them are joint ventures or private enterprises, they attach great importance to product research and development and innovation, and are constantly improving from appearance design to optical quality. In 2008 Shenzhen Light Expo, Ningbo Teaching Instrument Factory exhibited a metallographic dark field microscope.
Finally, talk about Shanghai Optical Instrument Factory. Polishing was once the most famous optical factory in China, and the polished microscope is still used and remembered by many people. However, since the cooperation with Leica in the 1990s, Shanghai Optics has been the largest optical instrument factory in China. At present, Leica in Shanghai is developing very well, but the polished microscope is almost in name only. At present, there are many microscope sales companies in Shanghai, some of which are related to polishing, and even claim to be polished, but most of the microscopes they sell are foreign brands.
Second, the current domestic level of science and technology.
The overall comprehensive technical level of instrument industry reached the international level in the mid-1980s. Microelectronics and computer technology have been widely used in instrumentation products, and about 15% products are intelligent, reaching the international level in the 1990s. 30% products have been digitized, reaching the international level in the late 1980s. The comprehensive service capacity has been significantly improved: it can undertake complete control projects of large-scale projects such as 300,000-600,000 kilowatts thermal power plants, nuclear power plants, 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia, 120 tons of converters, urban gas station projects with a daily output of 300,000 cubic meters, and large-scale furnaces.
Large-scale product satisfaction: the domestic market satisfaction rate of middle and high-grade scientific testing instruments is 30%, and the satisfaction rate of middle and low-grade scientific instruments is 65%; The product variety satisfaction rate of measurement and control instruments and systems in the production process of large engineering projects is 50%, and the product variety satisfaction rate of small and medium-sized projects is 70%. Imported products are often important and key equipment needed for scientific research and production, with high technical content and high added value.
From scratch, from small to large, the industry has initially formed a relatively complete instrument production, scientific research and marketing system. A number of scientific research and development institutions have been established (including 20 professional research institutes of mechanical systems and instruments, 3 national engineering research centers, 5 enterprise technology centers and 9 national product quality inspection centers); A number of professional management, management and technical personnel have been trained. Especially some middle and low-grade products, have formed their own advantages and characteristics. The output of various digital multimeters, watt-hour meters, water meters, gas meters, level meters, middle and low-grade optical microscopes and telescopes ranks among the top in the world. While basically meeting domestic demand, it exports in large quantities.
Through tackling key problems in science and technology, joint development, joint venture and cooperation, and introducing technology to digest and absorb domestic products, some high-end leading products in China's instrument and meter industry have narrowed the gap with the international advanced level and formed production capacity. The main products independently developed are small and medium-sized DCS, field bus intelligent instruments, bus-type test systems, special detection equipment for automobiles, ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, microwave plasma spectroscopy, and new diffusion silicon sensitive elements. The main products imported from China are recorders, miniature control valves, new transmitters, spectrometers, chromatograms, scanning electron microscopes, water quality analyzers, special composite materials and so on. The main products of joint venture and cooperation are large DCS, EJA, flowmeter, electronic theodolite, dynamic balance testing machine, high and low temperature testing instruments, etc.
A number of state-owned, collective, private and foreign-funded enterprises and research institutes stand out in the industry through market competition, showing a good development momentum and stamina, forming a leading and core force.
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