The development history of vacuum pumps in China

As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties of BC, China has appeared orange mallet, reel overturning, barrel car and other primitive water lifting tools, to the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period further developed into a pedal car (that is, water wheel), becoming the predecessor of modern industrial pump.
In 1654, the German scientist Otto von Glick invented the world's first vacuum pump in Magdeburg and conducted the famous Magdeburg hemispheric experiment, opening a new chapter in the field of human vacuum applications.
The First Opium War in 1840 opened the door to China, gradually reducing China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, but also introduced some modern Western science and technology.
After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War in 1894, the Qing government formulated a series of laws to reward the development of national industry and commerce, which enabled the development of national industry. The production of industrial pumps in early China also began to appear during this period.
In 1932, Japan established the "Manchurian Joint Venture Workshop" in Shenyang, using Chinese labor to produce small pumps (individual parts were shipped from Japan), with an annual output of up to 890 units.

In 1936, Shanghai Yonggu Machinery Factory copied the piston vacuum pump supporting steam equipment imported from Germany.

In 1954, Fan Jingchun referred to the Japanese CE type single suction double-stage pump structure and designed China's first single-suction two-stage vacuum pump.

Since 1983, foreign vacuum pumps have entered the Chinese market in large quantities. Japanese vacuum pumps are deployed all over the world, Germany's Leybold has built factories in China, and international famous manufacturers such as Atlas Group of the United States and South Korea's Youcheng have also sought partners to establish manufacturing bases in China. Their appetite is very large, quite a whale swallowing China's vacuum pump market.
After 1990, although some vacuum pump companies in China have gradually risen and occupied a leading position in the market, most of the enterprises have poor research and development capabilities, and compared with foreign counterparts, high-end products are still at a disadvantage in technology.

In 1996, the German brand "Hokaido" vacuum pump entered the Chinese market;

In 2002, Hong Kong Fenglisheng Group wholly acquired the German "Hokaido" and moved the factory to Dongguan;

Since 2008, although the success of vacuum pumps of foreign brands in the Chinese market has become an indisputable fact, the domestic vacuum pump enterprises represented by Hanzhong Precision Machinery, Hokaido and Zhongkeyi are still making unremitting efforts and catching up.
 
In 2011, "Hokaido" set up a production and research and development base of 10,000 square meters in Dongguan, set up a research and development team, and invested a lot of research and development funds.

In 2016, there were about 500 vacuum pump manufacturers in China, of which 90% of the small-scale manufacturers with an annual output value of between 1 million and 10 million, and the sales volume of Hokaido vacuum pumps ranked among the top 10 vacuum pumps in China.

In 2021, "Hokaido" successfully developed an oil-free cup roots pump, which completely solved the historic problem of oil leakage in roots pumps and attracted the attention of domestic and foreign markets.

Nowadays, with the sustained and rapid development of China's economy, the vacuum pump-related downstream application industry has maintained a rapid growth momentum, and at the same time, driven by the continuous expansion of the vacuum pump application field and other factors, China's vacuum pump industry has achieved sustained and stable development.