Chinese manufacturing industry will have more profound changes: from "big manufacturing country" to "powerful manufacturing country", from "made in China" to "created in China", is an irreversible trend.

After several decades, especially the construction and development of nearly ten years, optical image measuring instrument in China has initially formed product categories relatively complete variety, has a certain scale of production and development capabilities of the industrial system, as Asia excluding Japan second large optical image measuring instrument producer.

According to incomplete statistics, the annual output value of less than 5000000 yuan enterprises not included in statistics, part of military industrial enterprises and products not included in the statistics, in 2003 the total number of our instrument production enterprises 2232, total industrial output value of 97000000000 yuan, sales income of 92100000000 yuan; including medical instrument, total industrial output value and sales revenue exceeded 100000000000 yuan. Among them, the total number of industrial automation instrument and control system of the enterprise 620, total industrial output value of 28500000000 yuan, sales income of 28200000000 yuan; accounted for 28%, 28.5% and 29% instrumentation industry. The total number of scientific instrument enterprises 525, total industrial output value of 26300000000 yuan, sales income of 25100000000 yuan, the data about all accounted for about 25% of the whole trade. The total number of electronic and electrical measuring instruments enterprises 285, total industrial output value of 14800000000 yuan, sales income of 14700000000 yuan, respectively 13%, 14% and 14.6% of total industry. Other types of instrumentation, the total number of enterprises total industrial output value and sales income of less than 34% of total industry.