Hot dip galvanized steel strip has always been a scarce variety in China's market. Since the mid-1990s, about 800000-1million tons have been imported from abroad every year. With the development of domestic economy, especially the development of automobile, home appliance and construction industry, the demand for galvanized strip steel has also increased greatly. China has built a batch of production lines with an annual output of more than 100000 tons in recent 20 years, but the hot-dip galvanizing units with low-level traditional technology in terms of process flow, equipment composition and product varieties can not meet the needs of China's economic construction and development in terms of variety, quality and quantity, and new hot-dip galvanizing lines still need to be built to meet the needs of the market.
Since the 1990s, the production of galvanized steel sheet in China has made great progress, and the processing capacity of galvanized steel sheet in China has reached nearly 3million tons. The market share of domestic galvanized sheet has increased rapidly, from about 27% in 1996 to about 59% in 1998. The main domestic manufacturers are Baosteel, Wuhan Iron and steel, Panzhihua Iron and steel, Handan Iron and steel, Benxi Iron and steel, with a total production capacity of more than 1.3 million tons.