Abstract:
NDT&E plays a very important role on our daily production testing and in-service inspection of industrial and civil equipment in China. The history, personnel qualification and certification system, conference and instrument exhibition, standard, instrument, education, main research and application areas for NDT in China were reviewed. From the statistic results, we can find that there are more than 170, 000 qualified NDT personnel and 2,000 NDT organizations in China. A lot of NDT instrument and equipment valued more than one billion Yuan RMB revenue were sold in 2007. Near 1,000 students of NDT major are graduated from college or University. China not only has a large requirement for conventional NDT instrument and service, but also for advanced instrument, technique and service. China is being a big market for NDT instrument, technique and service. Many advanced NDT techniques also have been studied, developed and successfully used.