"Outstanding Craftsmen" — The Future Road of Automation

In continuous large-scale process industries such as petroleum refining, chemical engineering, and metallurgy, process instruments are the core equipment for monitoring production and operation status. The development of China's industrial process instruments did not start from scratch—remarkable achievements were made in this field as early as the mid-20th century. Through long-term exploration of "introduction, digestion, modification, and innovation," China established an independent industrial instrument system in the mid-1970s and formulated the "Chinese Standard," which was internationally advanced at that time. Although foreign brands have long dominated the market, the trend of domestic substitution has been gaining momentum in recent years, with more and more users listing it as a key priority, injecting new impetus into the resurgence of China's independent industrial process instrument system.

Welcome to this episode of "Outstanding Craftsmen" — "The Future Road of Automation"

Featured Company: Xiamen ZONER Instrument Co., Ltd.
Program: "Outstanding Craftsmen"
Host: Li Yufei

【Broadcast Schedule】
November 16, 2025 (Sunday) 11:26
November 16, 2025 (Sunday) 19:26
November 17, 2025 (Monday) 15:26
November 17, 2025 (Monday) 23:26
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(If the channel's broadcast time adjusts, please refer to the actual channel schedule)

【Television Platform】
Broadcast on the Central New Films Old Story Channel, affiliated with China Media Group
Simultaneously broadcast on CCTV Mobile TV

【Online Streaming Platform】
To be announced

In the development wave of "Made in China 2025," achieving independence in core technologies is key to breaking through industry bottlenecks. Currently, 80% to 90% of the mid-to-high-end market is occupied by foreign brands, while domestic companies generally invest only 1% to 2% of their revenue in research and development, posing significant challenges to the industry's growth. Drawing inspiration from Huawei's development philosophy, ZONER has taken its agency business as a core pillar, continuously investing the profits into independent research and development, successfully transforming from a trading agent into a technology-driven industrial enterprise. The company resolutely avoids low-end homogenized competition, focuses on technological breakthroughs to reshape the industry landscape, and takes root in the land of Southern Fujian, which nurtures the spirit of hard work and wisdom. After a decade of deep cultivation, it has written a chapter of transformation from an industry follower to a technology leader. Today, ZONER's technological strength has gained widespread recognition from a growing number of users.

While peers were focusing on the steady expansion of ZONER's process instrument agency and distribution business, Hu Huaneng resolutely made a difficult decision—shifting the development focus toward independent research and development. He deeply understood that only by replicating the breakthrough path of the "Chinese Standard" from decades ago, and overcoming industry certification barriers with core technologies, could the monopoly of foreign brands in this field be truly broken. To this end, Hu Huaneng led the team with technological breakthroughs as the core direction, consistently adhering to strict quality standards even in the face of significant obstacles in brand promotion and immense pressure from import substitution.

ZONER deeply understands that corporate culture is the core soul of enterprise development. Therefore, it has always focused on cultivating and inheriting its unique cultural genes, establishing a core value system centered on "Respect for the Individual, Integrity, Mutual Trust, Reputation First, Pioneering and Refinement, Performance-Based Reward." The spirit of openness, inclusivity, innovation, and progress conveyed by these values perfectly echoes the arduous development journey of China's industrial automation instrumentation industry—from its former brilliance, to a period of quietude, and now to its current counter-trend breakthrough and leap from following to leading.

Starting from agency business and establishing itself through independent research and development, ZONER has progressed through the stage of following and ultimately achieved industry transcendence. Through practice, it has demonstrated the profound meaning of "domestic substitution"—it is by no means a simple product replacement, but rather driving the upgrade of the industrial chain through solid technological breakthroughs, and reshaping the industry's glory with an independently constructed standard system. The future has arrived. ZONER will continue to take innovation as its core engine, injecting strong momentum into the field of industrial processes and automation, and writing an even more brilliant new chapter of development.

【Friendly Reminder】
This episode of "Outstanding Craftsmen" — "The Future Road of Automation"
Will premiere on the Central New Films Old Story Channel at 11:26 on November 16, 2025
You can watch the live broadcast by downloading the CCTV Mobile TV app.
Please be sure to tune in on time!