Brief introduction to Chinese electrical machine industry

The electrical machine manufacturing inChina began early in the tenth of twentiethcentury,but the electrical machine industry hasbeen developed quickly ever since the establish-ment of the new China.The output of electricalmachines in 1949 was only around 70 MW,while the output in 1987 was 40.000 MW,inwhich AC electrical motors amounted to 37,000MW.The varieties of products also developedquickly.From the manufacturing aspect,it maybe classified into five categories,i.e.large elec-trical machines,medium electrical machines,small electrical machines,fractional-horsepowermotors and micro motors for control use.Nowthey are stated separately as follows.