In recent years, with the increasing the demands on productivity as well as the requirements for manufacturing quality, China’s mould manufacturing industry has been also constantly improving to meet those requirements. Besides, Chinese mold manufacturers also realized that their manufacturing needs to rely on technology, and they always need invest in research, innovation to meet the needs of the current market.

The basic advantages of China’s mold industry are cheap labor cost and the economy basically maintained the rapid and sustainable development momentum. It is expected that China will become the world’s largest mold manufacturing base in 2018.

China’s mold industry has also witnessed the emergence of many big mould manufacturers, such as in the automotive panel mould sector there is "Big Four" (four big mould manufacturers specialized in automotive panel mould), and 100 enterprises were awarded "China Die and Mould Industry" title. Besides, the mould-developed regions are allocated from Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta to North China.

China’s mould industry is not only large but also decent with large-scaled, sophisticated. However, in general, this industry in China still lags behind in the level of production compared to the world, while manufacturing output has not met the needs of the market yet. Currently, this sector can only meet 80% of the mould demand of domestic China, and the rate of the advanced-technique mould is still below 60%. Therefore, for a better development, the Chinese government and mould  manufacturers have been setting to promote investment in technology to enhance the competitive advantage of this industry.

Whereas the mold manufacturing industry in China just focused on manufacturing for daily life products, or other traditional manufacturing industries, but now with the development of technology, as well as the needs of the market, the manufacturing should be developed further with more advanced methods, more efficient, bringing high-quality products and cost less.