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The six essential selection criteria for portable gas detectors—none can be omitted!
Portable gas detectors are essential tools in modern industry, environmental monitoring, and safety management. They enable timely detection and early warning of gas leaks, thereby ensuring safety. However, as industries continue to develop and expand, the environment is becoming increasingly complex. Enhancing workplace safety while maintaining efficient operations has become a critical issue for enterprise development.
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2025-04
What are the commonly used specialty electronic gases in semiconductor fabs?
Specialty electronic gases primarily include group IV silicon gases, halides or halogenated gases, gases containing boron, phosphorus, arsenic, and other elements, as well as fluorocarbon gases—there are numerous varieties.
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2025-04
Knowledge Section || Instruments Also Need to “Beat the Heat” in Hot Summer Weather
With the arrival of summer, high temperatures have become the norm—especially as we approach the Sanfu period, when temperatures will remain stubbornly high. For instruments installed outdoors, this hot environment undoubtedly poses a significant challenge.
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2024-06
Industry News || “Deep Earth No. 1” – Asia’s Deepest Onshore Well
On January 15, the “Deep Earth Project—Shunbei Oil and Gas Field Base” (nicknamed “Deep Earth No. 1”), deployed by Sinopec in the Tarim Basin, achieved a high-yield oil and gas flow from the Yuejin 3-3XC well during testing. The well produces 200 tons of crude oil and 50,000 cubic meters of natural gas per day. With a total drilling depth reaching 9,432 meters, this well has set a new record for the deepest onshore well in Asia. Drilling on this well began on May 1 this year, and after 177 days of operation, it was completed on October 26, breaking two previous Asian records: the deepest horizontal depth and the longest lateral displacement in ultra-deep wells. The successful drilling of this well once again demonstrates that China’s deep-earth technology has risen to the world’s forefront, providing crucial technological and equipment reserves for venturing into ultra-deep formations exceeding 10,000 meters and further strengthening our ability to ensure national energy security.
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2023-11
Breaking News || Xi Jinping: We must fight a tough battle to achieve domestic production of scientific instruments and equipment, operating systems, and basic software!
China’s entry into the industrial software sector wasn’t late at all. As early as 1978, the Shenyang Blower Factory introduced advanced blower technology from Italy and, for US$940,000, acquired a large-scale IBM 370/138 mainframe along with its accompanying MRPII software from IBM. Engineers from the Beijing Institute of Mechanical Industry Automation (Beijing Institute of Automation) even brought back from IBM eight black books that meticulously documented the fundamental principles and algorithms of the MRPII software. From that moment on, China’s industrial software industry began to take off. By the mid-to-late 1990s, China’s industrial software market share had reached 25%, and in certain specialized fields, it even climbed as high as 45%. In 1997, Beijing hosted the first CAD Application Engineering Expo, attracting participation from delegations representing 32 provinces and cities as well as over 40 CAD companies. According to incomplete statistics, by the year 2000, the number of domestic institutions engaged in CAD research and development had grown to more than 300. In 2001, China officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), and with it came an influx of high-end foreign equipment and cutting-edge industrial software into the Chinese market. Faced with intense competition from foreign industrial software giants, China’s nascent domestic industrial software industry found itself completely at a disadvantage in marketing and customer acquisition, and was swiftly stifled in its infancy. From 2012 to 2021, the software industry’s business revenue grew from approximately 2.5 trillion yuan to roughly 9.5 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 16.1%, placing it among the top-performing sectors of the national economy. The number of people employed in the software industry rose from 4.7 million to 8.09 million, and overall labor productivity increased by more than 80%. The number of software copyright registrations surged from 139,000 to 2.28 million. As of the end of 2021, the CNC rate for key processes in industrial enterprises reached 55.3%, and the penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools hit 74.7%. Although the domestic industrial software industry has experienced rapid growth over the past decade, the problem of being “small and fragmented” remains prominent, with low market concentration. Among the more than 100 enterprises independently developing industrial software, over 90% have revenues below 50 million yuan. Even among the major publicly listed companies, Baosight Software—the largest player in terms of market share in 2021—held only a 3.52% share, with revenues still hovering around 10 billion yuan.
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2023-03
Emergency Science Popularization || Cold Wave Strikes: A Guide for Chemical Enterprises on Cold and Freeze Protection
According to the weather forecast, the cold wave will continue to sweep across most of central and eastern China, moving from north to south. Temperatures across various regions will plummet sharply. The winter weather is bitterly cold. Chemical enterprises should take proper measures to prevent freezing and solidification. Please keep these safety tips handy.
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2022-12
Latest Update || Major Breakthrough in Exploration of the Qijiang Shale Gas Field in the Sichuan Basin: 145.968 Billion Cubic Meters!
On November 24, reporters learned from Sinopec that the Qijiang shale gas field located in the Sichuan Basin has achieved a major breakthrough in exploration. The initial proven geological reserves of 145.968 billion cubic meters have been approved by an expert panel under the Ministry of Natural Resources, marking the emergence of another large-scale, fully-developed shale gas field in China with reserves exceeding 100 billion cubic meters.
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2022-11
Research Report Sharing || An Overview of China’s Industrial By-Product Hydrogen Industry in 2022
On March 23, 2022, the “Mid- to Long-Term Development Plan for the Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035),” jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration, injected new vitality into China’s hydrogen energy development. The plan calls for China to preliminarily establish, by 2025, a hydrogen supply system primarily based on the local utilization of hydrogen produced as a byproduct of industrial processes and hydrogen generated from renewable energy sources. In the short term, due to large-scale expansions in the production of coke, caustic soda, propylene, and ethylene, hydrogen produced as a byproduct of industrial processes will become one of China’s primary sources of hydrogen.
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2022-11
Industry News || Shanxi: Reasonably Control the Scale of Coal-to-Oil and Coal-to-Gas Production Capacity
Recently, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Fight Against Pollution," proposing that efforts should be focused on sectors such as energy, building materials, coke production, and chemical industries to vigorously advance the carbon peak initiative. Shanxi's energy and chemical enterprises will further intensify their efforts toward green development.
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2022-11
Customer Update || The Southwest Petroleum Bureau of Sinopec has achieved a major breakthrough in shale gas exploration in the Sichuan Basin!
On October 18, Sinopec announced that the Southwest Petroleum Bureau of Sinopec has achieved a major breakthrough in shale gas exploration in the Sichuan Basin, with evaluated geological resources reaching 387.8 billion cubic meters. The Jinshi 103HF exploration well, deployed by the Southwest Petroleum Bureau in Leshan City, Sichuan Province, recently produced a stable, high-volume industrial gas flow, yielding 258,600 cubic meters of natural gas per day. Multiple-well drilling has confirmed that the resource volume in the productive stratum penetrated by the Jinshi 103 well amounts to 387.8 billion cubic meters, while the total resource volume of the entire shale formation exceeds 1 trillion cubic meters. This marks the first time that China has achieved a significant breakthrough in shale gas exploration within the Cambrian Qiongzhu Temple Formation.
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2022-11
Breaking News || MIIT Issues Document: Promoting the Upgrading of Online Testing and Measurement Instruments and Meters
To promote the upgrading of quality management in the manufacturing sector, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the "Implementation Guidelines for Digitalization of Manufacturing Quality Management (Trial)." The Guidelines contain numerous references to metrological testing and measurement: 1. Key digitalization scenarios for quality management in priority industries: Promote digitalization and control of production processes in the equipment manufacturing industry by deeply integrating technologies such as sensors, machine vision, automated control, and advanced measuring instruments into production operations, thereby enhancing the level of quality control in lean manufacturing processes. 2. Digitalization of quality management for key business processes in enterprises: Enterprises at the initial stage of digitalization should, based on their actual needs, select key business processes from among R&D, design, procurement, production, inspection, warehousing, logistics, sales, and service, and focus on advancing the application of digital technologies. Fully leverage digital tools to strengthen the collection, analysis, and utilization of quality information across business processes, conduct digital design validation, quality control, quality inspection, quality analysis, and quality improvement, and elevate the sophistication and intelligence of quality process control, thus improving the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise quality management. 3. Strengthening digital management of inspection and testing: Enterprises should, in accordance with the requirements of digitalization in quality management, refine their inspection and testing methods and procedures. Promote upgrades of online detection and metrological instruments, facilitate interconnectivity between manufacturing equipment and inspection/testing devices, enhance the efficiency of quality inspection, and improve measurement accuracy and dynamic sensing capabilities. Employ technologies such as machine vision and artificial intelligence to boost the comprehensiveness, precision, and predictive alert capabilities of production quality inspection. 4. Improving standards and testing & certification services: Standardization organizations, industry associations, social groups, and key enterprises are encouraged to establish standards and norms around digitalization of quality management, and to promote the development and improvement of public service systems covering standard formulation, industrial metrology, testing, and certification for digitalization of quality management. Additionally, professional institutions providing comprehensive digitalization enhancement services—including consulting diagnosis, project implementation, and operation and maintenance—should be fostered.
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2022-04
Specialized Knowledge || The Differences Between 304, 304L, 316, and 316L
Stainless steel is a type of steel. Steel, by definition, refers to an alloy containing carbon (C) at a concentration of less than 2%; when the carbon content exceeds 2%, it is classified as iron. During the smelting process, alloying elements such as chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and molybdenum (Mo) are added to steel, enhancing its properties and giving it corrosion resistance—meaning it won't rust. This is what we commonly refer to as stainless steel. So, what exactly are “steel” and “iron,” what are their respective characteristics, and how are they related? Moreover, how did the terms “304,” “304L,” “316,” and “316L”—which we often hear about—come into being, and what are the differences among them?
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2021-10