Some time ago, Peking University's MRI Center issued a statement to dozens of nuclear magnetic users and instrument suppliers in China.This is like a mdash; MDASH; the center announced the termination of business exchanges with related instrument suppliers in China, pointing out that the supplier has greatly increased the price of after -sales service expenses and parts prices, and it is not only the Peking University family.
After the statement was issued, many scientific and technological workers resonated.Lan Minbo, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a professor at East China University of Technology, told the Science and Technology Daily that users from many scientific research institutions in China generally report that in the field of large -scale scientific research instruments and equipment, some instrument suppliers are serious in sales and after -sales service.Monopoly.
As of press time, the protection of rights protection of Peking University has achieved positive results.However, the monopoly position of foreign instrumental vendors may be difficult to shake in the short term.
Guan Yafeng, the chairman of the Instrument Branch of the Chinese Instrument and Instrument Association and a researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemistry and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Science and Technology Daily that almost all high -end instruments, including mass spectrum, chromatography, spectrum, electron microscope, etc. were monopolized abroad.
The Ministry of Science and Technology lsquo; National major scientific instrument and equipment development special RSQUO;With great progress; but the horizontal point of view is still very different from abroad.Guan Yafeng said.
Lan Fuwu provided a set of numbers: As of 2018, there were about 1,800 nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers in China, of which more than 1,400 were products of a foreign supplier, with only 50 domestic products.
In this case, these instrument suppliers can use their market dominance position to raise prices to prevent third -party suppliers from repair, set up unfair clauses such as non -repairs, and obtain high profits in these methods.
We should conduct antitrust investigations on some instrument suppliers who have a bad influence in the scientific research instrument industry and are suspected of abuse of market dominance.Lan Minbo suggested that relevant laws and regulations should also be improved to strengthen antitrust and purchaser protection legislation in the field of scientific research instruments.
He feels that the important point is to establish an open system for the maintenance market for scientific research instruments and equipment, allowing and encouraging third -party companies to enter the maintenance market.Instrument suppliers should publicly repair information to third parties and open up parts of components; they should prohibit suppliers from setting up exclusive terms in the supply contract or maintenance contract.
For commodities with narrow application fields such as scientific research instruments, it is recommended to form a special price negotiation team by the main buyers in the same field.Lan Minbo said that such a group can negotiate with suppliers with market dominance in accordance with the principle of fairness and reasonable principles to determine reasonable maintenance and maintenance price standards.
In fact, according to past experience, once domestic instruments in a certain field have made breakthroughs, the price of imported equipment in this field will also fall.Even please buy it.Lan Minbo said.
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Fund Commission have instrument specials, and have invested a lot in recent years.Can we focus on several instruments that can be renewed and related to the development of science and technology.We have made large domestic instruments up in a few years.He looks forward to it.
The state should also further increase investment in the development of scientific research instruments, and pay more attention to the design of scientific research instruments.Guan Yafeng said that the national major scientific instrument and equipment development specially invested 6.7 billion yuan (RMB) during the 125th period, but the investment during the 13th Five -Year Plan fell to one -third of the original.At least at the level of lsquo; 125 rsquo;.
With the instrument, there must be some people.Guan Yafeng suggested that the relevant departments can introduce corresponding policies, stipulating that government procurement should be preferred by domestic scientific research instruments.In order to encourage domestic scientific research instrument manufacturers, it can also implement the tax reduction policy to allow them to have more funds to invest in research and development.
Core components are difficult to check, and it is difficult to produce results in the short term; the whole machine can purchase foreign parts integration assembly, which is easier to make.In the past, instrument research and development producers mainly pursued the performance of the whole machine and ignored the breakthrough of key core devices.Guan Yafeng said that scientific research instruments are products with large categories but very small sales of single varieties, and it is not meaningful to pursue the breakthrough of the whole machine.He revealed that the special review of the national major scientific instrument and equipment development has begun to pay attention to the key components during the 13th Five -Year Plan period. During the 14th, the development of key components will be focused on the development of key components.If the key components are overcome, the production scientific research instruments can be assembled like a computer.
However, there is another real problem mdash; mdash; who will develop scientific research instruments?
Guan Yafeng said that under the current evaluation mechanism mainly based on papers and SCI influence factors, few people are willing to do this line.If I was also evaluated like this when I was young, I guess I could not stick to it anymore.From the perspective of the veteran in the field of scientific research instruments, the rise of domestic scientific research instruments should first change the evaluation system.Don't think that if you are engaged in instruments, you should be a low person. Putting the problem first, attract more people to enter the field of scientific research instruments.
