In recent years, the Chinese government has paid more and more attention to environmental governance, and its environmental protection efforts have continued to increase. As an indispensable field of environmental monitoring, it also benefits a lot and is expected to usher in rapid development.

Compared with the three sub-industries of air pollution, water pollution, and soil treatment, environmental monitoring is a small and refined environmental protection sub-sector. However, environmental monitoring is an indispensable part of environmental protection work and plays an important role in achieving China's environmental protection industry goals.

It is very difficult to carry out environmental governance. To ensure the effect of governance, we need to rely on detailed test data. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the Chinese government focused on building a national environmental monitoring network, with air environment monitoring, water quality monitoring, and pollution source monitoring as the main body, forming a basic detection framework.

From the perspective of industrial division, China's environmental monitoring is mainly divided into environmental quality testing and pollution source testing. The former includes air, water, noise, and soil testing, and the latter includes wastewater, sewage, exhaust gas, and heavy metal testing.

It can be seen that environmental monitoring is the foundation of environmental governance. Promoting the development of environmental monitoring is not only to prevent the further expansion of pollution, but also to test the existing treatment facilities and methods, which is of great significance.

China's environmental monitoring industry started early, but because the entry threshold is slightly higher, the overall volume is not large, and the market concentration is relatively high. With the increase of policy support, environmental monitoring will maintain rapid growth, and the basic environmental monitoring instrument industry is also expected to benefit.

According to the data from the "China Environmental Monitoring Instrument Industry Production and Sales Demand and Investment Forecast Analysis Report" released by Foresight Industry Research Institute, the global environmental monitoring market will maintain an upward trend. It is estimated that by 2020, the market size will reach USD 20.5 billion, with a CAGR of 7.5%.

Among them, North America still occupies the largest market share, followed by Europe. However, the growth rate in the Asia-Pacific region is obvious. In particular, China and India are implementing increasingly stringent environmental regulations, and market demand is rapidly being released.

China and the global environmental monitoring industry can maintain rapid growth, mainly because governments continue to attach importance to environmental governance, support for environmental monitoring continues to increase, and government budgets for pollution control and monitoring continue to increase.

The expansion of the environmental monitoring market space will stimulate the demand for environmental monitoring instruments, and the future prospects are worth looking forward to.

At present, there are three main categories of environmental monitoring instruments, namely environmental monitors, environmental sensors, and environmental software. Among them, in the global environmental market, environmental detectors occupy the largest market share, because the global environmental pollution is increasing. Environmental sensors are mainly used for temperature, humidity, biological, chemical and noise monitoring.