The 21st century is the era of information, the proportion of tertiary sector of the economy in the world is rising, especially in the service industry, which has become the leading industry in the 21st century, which leads to the emergence and development of e-commerce. From the emergence and development of e-commerce, compared with traditional business, there are many new features. E-commerce is not only a challenge to traditional business, but also a leap to traditional business. To be sure, with the development of e-commerce, the business field will present a new scene.

At the same time, in today's e-commerce, unimpeded information channels and information resources determine the number of“Life and death and success or failure”, especially for instrumentation, a highly specialized field. Recently, with the“Chinese instrument network” on-line popular, widely recognized by the industry. The online development model integrates and develops all the advantages of its own resources, establishes a complete set of service systems and models, with timely release of query information, complete and comprehensive data resources, information professional authority, extensive network coverage and many other advantages.

Instrument industry expert Zheng Shuming said, our instrument industry sales in 2004 for the first time to break through the hundred billion yuan mark, indicating that the development of our instrument industry into the fast lane. In 2006, the total output value of the instrument and instrument industry exceeded two hundred billion yuan, and in 2009, the performance of the instrument and instrument industry was even more encouraging. The total output value increased by nearly 100 billion yuan a year, and both production and sales exceeded 400 billion yuan, up to November 2010, the total value of production and sales of instrument industry has reached the highest record of 500 billion in the history of instrument development in our country.

With the rapid development and maturity of computer, communication, software, new material and new technology, artificial intelligence and on-line measurement and control become possible, the instrument industry to intelligent, virtual, networking. Digital instruments, intelligent instruments, personal computer instruments, virtual instruments and network instruments represent the mainstream and direction of the development of modern scientific instruments in the 20th century.

During the 12th five-year plan period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has put sensors and intelligent instruments in an important position to promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

Zheng Shuming said that our country has already stepped into the industry of a big country in the production of instruments and meters, and has acquired a considerable industrial scale through years of development. Facing the complicated international trade situation, our instrument industry should firmly grasp the strategic advantage period of development, in line with the principle of“Innovation first, key breakthrough, technology integration, solid foundation, multi-input”, the layout conforms to the development plan of strategic emerging industries.

With the arrival of fifteen, our instrument industry will also enter a high-speed development stage. In the next five years, our instrument industry application of e-commerce market, will become the mainstream trend of sustainable development of the industry, Zheng Shuming that.