When it comes to the "globalization of national science teaching tools", it's probably a long way to go. After all, we usually go shopping and buy teaching tools, but at best buy our own children a microscope or a human model. Who's going to wonder if they can sell it abroad? But the recent news about Zhang Jia-Hong's scientific instrument has brought to the attention of many people that our teaching tools had gone out of the sea quietly and that there were many orders. That's the question.——Where is the path to globalization of national science teaching aids? How far is it from the real international card?
To be honest, it's not "cheap" for a state-owned teaching tool to walk out. It may not be known that foreign higher education and research institutions have been largely monopolized over the past decades by German and United States established companies, at a price that is prohibitively high, with a heart model selling thousands of dollars. And our products, solid, hand-drawn, colored, are high, and only one third of the price is even lower. It's like when a national phone rose.——The same configuration, the price is a big one. Who's gonna get past the money?
Moreover, the national teaching aids have expanded particularly rapidly. From the original human bones, organ models, to the present stage of tissue embryoology, orals and nursing, there are virtually all available educational scenarios. Businesses like CS, which have also adapted their curricula to different countries, e.g. European and American schools, which focus more on anatomy details, have increased the number of key parts of the model and increased their durability. This "customed" service has to be used to raise a thumb.
However, it is too early to say that globalization has "done." The biggest, actually, is brand recognition. Ask the procurement teachers at foreign universities who may know "3B Scientific" "SOMSO" but have never heard of "PNA TOMY" or "Scientific". This is not a matter of product quality, but rather of building up brand trust. After all, science teaching tools don't look like cell phones.——If a teaching model is not proportional and coloured, and has a direct impact on the effectiveness of the teaching, the university procurement department may not easily try the new brand.
In addition, international certification and standards are a pit. Material safety of teaching aids, environmental standards and even size requirements vary from country to country. For example, the European Union's CE certification, the US ASTM standard, each of which has to pay to apply and fit. Many small factories have to spend more than half a year on this. So what really goes out is basically a research-and-development, capital-reserve enterprise like Koshin.
To be honest, it is now the best window for the globalization of national science teaching aids. On the one hand, in the wake of the global epidemic, education budgets are shrunk in many countries, and they are more willing to find alternatives with high value for money. On the other hand, the emergence of online fairs and cross-border B2B platforms has allowed SMEs to have direct access to overseas customers without relying on intermediaries. Companies such as Koshin have started to build warehouses and agents overseas, and services are responding even faster than some indigenous brands.
But the key is "product power" itself. If we can continue to make models more sophisticated, more realistic, and even interactively combined with AR/VR technology, then it's not just "salvation," but a real "supercar." Then, when the foreigners bring up science teaching tools, the first reaction in their minds may not be the old German, but our "made in China".
This road is not short, but as long as it moves steadily, it will eventually see the light.
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It's really too much, I've bought two models.
Are these models certified by the CEO? Does foreign procurement worry about quality and after sale?
I used a homemade skeletal model at school, had a better sense of hand than an imported one, and taught students without losing color. 😂
It was surprising to hear that foreign universities had included the model of science on the procurement list.
It's too complicated to certify.