The third-party testing industry refers to a third-party testing agency that accepts customer entrustment, comprehensively uses scientific methods and professional technology to evaluate the quality, safety, performance, environmental protection and other aspects of a certain product, and issues an evaluation report.
The upstream of the third-party testing industry chain mainly includes testing equipment, testing reagents and other industries; the downstream of the industry chain mainly includes terminal manufacturers of industrial products and consumer goods, and the users of testing reports are governments, consumers or downstream manufacturers of manufacturers.
The development history of the global third-party testing industry
The inspection and testing industry started with industrialization. Since humans entered the industrial era, the global inspection and testing industry has begun to develop as an independent industry. So far, European countries, Japan, the United States, etc. have formed relatively standardized inspection and testing markets, and have formed a number of internationally renowned and authoritative private commodity testing institutions; China, as a developing country, has a relatively early start in industrialization. It is late and the process is slow, and the development of the inspection and testing industry also lags behind other developed countries.
Global third-party testing industry market size
According to the "Research Report on Development Trends and Investment Decision Support of the Third-Party Testing Industry" released by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, judging from the market size of the global testing industry, the average industry growth rate in recent years has been about 10%. Even during the 2008 financial crisis, the testing industry still maintained good growth. According to relevant data, the market size of the global testing industry in 2015 was approximately 1.34 trillion yuan.
Chart 1: Global testing industry market size trend from 2008 to 2016 (unit: 100 million yuan)
Global third-party testing industry development trends
01. Growth trend of the scale of the testing industry
The global testing industry has a strong ability to resist risks. Even under the impact of the severe international economic crisis from 2008 to 2009, the entire market size of the testing industry has still grown. There have been no bankruptcy cases, or even layoffs and reorganizations worldwide. All rarely happen. Looking forward, it is predicted that in the context of the slow recovery of the global economy, the growth rate of the global testing industry will remain at around 8% in the next few years. It is expected that by 2022, the scale of the global testing industry will exceed 2 trillion yuan.
Chart 1: Forecast of the scale of the global testing industry from 2017 to 2022 (unit: 100 million yuan)
02. Regional distribution trends of the testing industry
With the worldwide industrial transfer, the trend of manufacturing industry shifting from developed countries to developing countries has become more obvious. The inspection and testing industry, which is inseparable from the manufacturing industry, has also shifted from developed countries to developing countries. Chinese home. At present, large-scale comprehensive testing institutions around the world basically come from developed countries and regions such as Europe, the United States, and Japan, while the receiving areas are concentrated in China and other Southeast Asian countries.
Chart 2: Schematic diagram of global testing industry transfer
03. Trends in testing entities in the testing industry
In the future, as the marketization of the testing industry continues to advance and laws and regulations continue to be standardized and improved, third-party testing will become the mainstream of the industry. The main reasons are as follows:
First of all, in mature economies such as the United States, Europe and Japan, in addition to "legal inspections" that require the use of public power, general testing, such as food safety testing, has been opened to third-party testing agencies. Secondly, in the face of severe food safety problems, for the food authorities, there is an inevitable functional opposition between promoting the development of the food industry and supervising food safety.
Chart 3: Schematic diagram of the trend of testing entities in the global quality inspection and testing industry
After 2010, the food, environmental protection, trade, and medical industries all issued relevant policies recommending the construction of independent third-party testing institutions, forcing the market to gradually open to third-party independent testing institutions. Today, although private testing institutions started late and have small capital strength, after several years of rapid development, their market share has achieved rapid growth. In the next few years, the growth rate of the global testing industry will remain at around 8%. It is expected that by 2022, the scale of the global testing industry will exceed 2 trillion yuan, and my country's third-party testing market will present huge room for development.
