AIR & WATER POLLUTION
MONITORING NEWSLETTER
July 2012
No. 393
Domestic and Foreign Outlook of the Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Market in China
The majority of China's wastewater equipment industry consists of continuous and portable monitoring as well as large laboratory industries. However, the monitoring devices and equipment sector are underdeveloped in China, causing China to have to import the high-quality devices. The current supply of domestic monitoring devices is very limited but still commands a very high market share due to their low prices. China's environmental monitoring and analysis industry consists of the need for quality tests to be performed while water and wastewater treatment facilities operate (i.e. in-situ, continuous and online monitoring). Again, although these services are domestically available, their equipment and instruments are of much lower quality than that of more developed countries. To add to the domestic struggle for sensor and monitoring equipment development, most of the quality monitoring is done by state-owned monitoring stations that are authorized by the government that doesn't allow domestic companies to provide the monitoring services without government authorization. Never the less, this subsector is expected to grow due to the monitoring demands and proposals for co-supervision over monitoring stations along-side the government.
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