Since the reform and opening up, China has attracted a large-scale transfer of manufacturing industries from Europe and America due to preferential policies in labor resources, market, investment, and other aspects. A large number of electronic products and manufacturers have set up factories in China, which has driven the development of related industries including PCB. According to statistics from China's CPCA, in 2006, China's actual PCB production reached 130 million square meters, with an output value of 12.1 billion US dollars, accounting for 24.90% of the world's total PCB output value, surpassing Japan to become the world's largest. From 2000 to 2006, the average annual growth rate of China's PCB market reached 20%, far exceeding the global average. The 2008 global financial crisis had a huge impact on the PCB industry, but it did not cause a catastrophic blow to China's PCB industry. Under the stimulation of national economic policies, China's PCB industry experienced a comprehensive recovery in 2010, with a PCB output value of up to 19.971 billion US dollars. Prismark predicts that China will maintain a compound annual growth rate of 8.10% from 2010 to 2015, which is higher than the global average growth rate of 5.40%.

Uneven regional distribution
The PCB industry in China is mainly distributed in the southern and eastern regions, accounting for 90% of the country's total. The industrial agglomeration effect is significant. This phenomenon is mainly related to the concentration of the main production bases of China's electronics industry in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta.

Distribution of PCB downstream applications
The downstream application distribution of China's PCB industry is shown in the following figure. The proportion of consumer electronics is the highest, reaching 39%; Next is computers, accounting for 22%; Communication accounts for 14%; Industrial control/medical instruments account for 14%; Automotive electronics account for 6%; National defense and aerospace account for 5%.

technologically backward
Although China is currently the world's largest in terms of industrial scale, the overall technological level of the PCB industry still lags behind the world's advanced level. In terms of product structure, multi-layer boards account for the majority of the output value, but most of them are mid to low end products with less than 8 layers, HDI、 Flexible boards have a certain scale, but there is a gap in technological content compared to advanced foreign products such as Japan. The IC carrier board with the highest technological content is rarely produced by domestic enterprises.