There are several reasons for the gap between the unconventional instrument products of petroleum instruments in China and foreign countries. China's enterprise operation mechanism can not fully meet the requirements of the development of market economy. In the process of development, a number of backbone enterprises invested by the state are facing the grim situation of product aging and the loss of technical personnel. After restructuring, although the production and operation have been improved, the scientific and technological innovation ability is still not enough: a number of private enterprises with mechanism innovation and flexible operation are gradually becoming new bright spots, but the vast majority of enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, and most of them have not yet been able to learn advanced core technologies, it can't compete with big foreign companies.
First of all, the country's overall organic integration system and policies of production, learning, and research have not been formed, the conversion rate of innovation results is low, and the application of technology is poor. In the early stage of reform and opening up, there was a big gap between the petroleum instrument industry and foreign countries, and enterprises generally sought technology sources from the outside. Although there have been changes recently, some enterprises have come to the fore, but on the whole, it is difficult for many large enterprises to grow up with the combination of independent innovation and technological achievements and applications.
China's scientific research institutions involved in measurement and control technology and related instruments a lot of scientific research results, but the practicality is poor. The research depth and intensity of related manufacturing technology, especially the core process technology, is not enough, the workload of secondary development is very large, and the conversion rate of results is low. High and medium-grade instrument products and systems involve different fields with a certain depth of application technology, foreign enterprises have professional departments and have experienced application personnel, while China's petroleum instrument enterprises are often unfamiliar with large-scale engineering technology, lack of application technology integration capabilities. Therefore, it is difficult to produce high-grade products.
Second, the lack of a strong national research support system. The petroleum instrument industry has many varieties and small batches, which require long-term and unremitting investment. However, at present, the country's investment channels are scattered and it is difficult to focus. Enterprises can neither compete in full accordance with the rules of the market economy as foreign enterprises do, nor lack strategic investment in research resources. At the same time, the market environment needed for the marketization of new technologies has not been perfected.