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Located in Pingtang County, Guizhou, the "China Sky Eye" is the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture spherical radio telescope. In October 2017, the "China Sky Eye" announced the discovery of the first batch of new pulsars, which was the first time that the Chinese used their own independently developed radio telescope to discover pulsars. China's Sky Eye is not only a sophisticated scientific instrument, but also a symbol of China's scientific and technological strength. It represents China's breakthrough in the field of radio astronomy, while also demonstrating humanity's endless curiosity and spirit of exploration in the universe.
On April 17, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences FAST Operation and Development Center reported that up to now, the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST), known as the "eye of China's sky", has discovered more than 900 new pulsars, most of which are faint pulsars that are difficult to find by other telescopes in the world, including more than 120 binary pulsars, more than 170 millisecond pulsars, and 80 faint occasional pulsars, which greatly expand the limit of human observation of the universe.
The National Astronomical Observatories' Galactic Plane Pulsar Survey Project team has discovered more than 650 of the more than 900 new pulsars. Han Jinlin, the person in charge of the project, said that in the more than 50 years from the discovery of the first pulsar to the discovery of the first pulsars by FAST, there are less than 3,000 pulsars discovered in the world. The number of pulsars discovered by the "China Sky Eye" is more than three times the total number of pulsars discovered by other telescopes in the world during the same period.
Looking back at the development of the mainland scientific instrument industry from "the number of new pulsars discovered by 'China Sky Eye' exceeded 900":
- Classification of scientific instruments
According to the "Classification Standards for Large Scientific Instruments and Equipment and Shared Database Information Specifications", scientific instruments and equipment are divided into 13 categories according to their application fields, mainly including analytical instruments, physical performance testing instruments, measurement instruments, astronomical instruments, marine instruments, earth exploration instruments, atmospheric exploration instruments, electronic measuring instruments, medical diagnostic instruments, nuclear instruments, special testing instruments, process experimental equipment and other instruments. In the first 11 categories, the first three categories: "analytical instruments", "physical performance testing instruments" and "measuring instruments" belong to the general type of "scientific instruments", and the last eight categories belong to the special type of "scientific instruments". The first eleven categories are subdivided into many sub-categories, and the specific classification of scientific instruments is as follows:
——Analysis of the market demand potential of China's scientific instrument industry
By comparing the scale of R&D expenditure and the number of research and test subjects in all provinces and cities across the country (except Taiwan Province), and after comprehensive analysis, it is believed that the demand potential of Beijing's scientific instrument industry is the largest, and the provinces and cities with the top demand potential are all regions with the highest economic volume and the top R&D expenditure scale, such as Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Guangdong Province, which also reflects the positive cycle of scientific and technological development and regional economic development. Regions with lower R&D spending tend to have slower expansion in the number of scientific institutions and less potential for demand for scientific instruments.
——Analysis of the market size of China's scientific instrument industry
The demand potential of the scientific instrument industry is related to the development of scientific research activities, and the development of scientific research activities is mainly reflected in the number and scale of scientific research institutions and R&D investment. Combined with the proportion of the mainland scientific instrument industry in scientific research investment over the years, the market size of the mainland scientific instrument industry will exceed 740 billion yuan in 2022.
-- The layout of domestic substitution in China's scientific instrument industry
Due to historical reasons such as a late start and a weak foundation, the mainland relies heavily on imports in terms of high-end scientific research instruments, as General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the academician conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, "the shortcomings of the mainland's basic scientific research and key core technologies are still prominent". In recent years, with the strong support of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other relevant departments, a series of important achievements have been made in the research and development of high-end scientific research instruments in the mainland, but the situation of being controlled by others has not been fundamentally changed, and has become an important factor restricting the improvement of the mainland's independent innovation ability.
At present, the layout of the mainland scientific instrument park is as follows:
According to the analysis of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the expansion of the number of R&D departments of enterprises, the expansion of the team of scientific research institutes in universities and the acceleration of the construction of national R&D institutions will bring about the growth of demand for scientific instrument applications. At the same time, the improvement of the quality and technical level of the mainland's scientific instrument products will strongly promote the localization of the scientific instrument industry, and the domestic substitution space of the mainland's scientific instrument industry is huge in the future. In 2028, the market size of scientific instruments in mainland China is expected to exceed 1.3 trillion yuan.
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