中国塑料机械起始于20世纪五十年代末期，随着中国石油化学工业的发展，中国塑料机械工业逐步形成了一个独立的工业部门，并初具规模。中国已成为世界塑机台件生产的第一大国，宁波海天也成为全球产量最大的注塑机生产企业。
China's plastic machinery industry began in the late 1950s. With the development of China's petrochemical industry, China's plastic machinery industry has gradually formed an independent industrial sector and begun to take shape. China has become the world's largest producer of plastic machine parts, and Ningbo Haitian has become the world's largest producer of injection machines.
近些年，塑料机械工业发展很快，全国塑料机械生产企业已发展到1000家以上，但具有一定规模、实力的企业约400家左右。中国塑料机械工业经过“十五”实现了跨越式的发展，产业规模扩大，连续八年主要经济指标逐年递增，其发展速度与主要经济指标在机械工业所辖的194个行业中名列前茅。
In recent years, the development of plastic machinery industry is very fast, and the national production enterprises of plastic machinery have developed to more than 1000, but there are about 400 www.lvhejizhujian.cnwww.yanglaoyuanq.com.cnwww.diandongmenq.com.cnwww.zhonglizhuzao.com.cn www.yanglaoyuanc.cnwww.yazhujian.net.cnenterprises with certain scale and strength. After the Tenth Five-Year Plan, China's plastic machinery industry has achieved great-leap-forward development. Its industrial scale has expanded and its main economic indicators have increased year by year for eight consecutive years. Its development speed and main economic indicators are among the top 194 industries under the jurisdiction of the machinery industr