Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 27th (Reporter Chen Xu) Instruments and meters are tools for understanding the world, the foundation for transforming the world, the "multiplier" of industrial production, and the "pioneer" of scientific research. On the 27th, according to the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting - High end Instrument Innovation and Development Parallel Forum, the scale of China's instrument and meter industry has steadily grown, and a number of leading enterprises and specialized and new enterprises have been cultivated. By 2023, the revenue will exceed 1 trillion yuan, officially entering the trillion yuan era.

The High end Instrument Innovation and Development Forum is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and organized by the Institute of Comprehensive Technology and Economics of Mechanical Industry Instruments. The theme is "Smart Instrument Integration for a Leading Future". Attendees exchange practical experience and share innovative achievements on the development trend of precision measuring instruments, intelligent equipment and online detection, and multi-modal AI empowering innovation in high-end instruments.

Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Wang Jiangping stated that in recent years, with the joint efforts of all parties, China's instrument and meter industry has steadily grown, achieving a revenue of 1011.2 billion yuan in 2023, and some high-end products have reached or approached the international advanced level. Currently, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum information are bringing new development momentum to high-end instruments. To seize opportunities and promote high-quality industrial development with new quality productivity. Adhere to innovation driven approach and solidly promote key core technology research and development; Grasp the development trend and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces; Strengthen pilot testing and application promotion; Persist in high-level opening up and deepen international cooperation.

The forum also released ten high-end instrument debut products, including domestically produced cutting-edge detection instruments with independent intellectual property rights such as atomic frequency selective lasers, wafer detectors, seven and a half digit multimeters, and ion triple quadrupole mass spectrometers, promoting production demand docking and exchange cooperation.