Yutian County in Hebei Province is home to 387 enterprises spanning the entire printing machinery industry chain-from pre-press, pressing, to post-press-offering over 120 product models across 18 series. These products are exported to more than 50 countries and regions, including the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2022, Yutian's printing machinery cluster was designated as one of the first national-level specialized SME clusters, generating an output value of RMB 12.213 billion.
Yutian, a modest-sized county on the eastern Hebei Plain, has been the birthplace of numerous "firsts" in China's printing machinery industry:
• China's first fully automatic flat-bed die-cutting machine,
• China's first water-based laminating machine,
• China's first fully automatic high-speed paper-mounting machine capable of processing over 12,000 sheets per hour,
• China's first automatic plastic-handle-inserting machine,
-and many more.
Over the past four decades, Yutian's printing machinery industry has undergone a remarkable transformation-from small workshops to a high-end, specialized, and robust industrial ecosystem. In 2022 alone, the sector achieved an output value of RMB 12.213 billion, marking a year-on-year increase of 19.02%.
