China Association of Plant Engineeringwas established on December 9, 1982. It is the inter-industry & trans-regional nationwide public organization of equipment management industry. There are 64 associations of equipment management of every province & autonomous regions & chinese_simplified & municipalities separately& key cities. There are 19 industrial associations of equipment management, involvingland and resources & traffic & information industry & architecture & electric power & railway & machinery & coal & chemics & metallurgy & coloured & petrocs & petroleum & medicine & gold & aviation & spaceflight & weapon & commodity inspection, etc. . These members of group of the association spread all over the whole country.

The development of this association has got cordial care and support of the leaders of the country and the Party all the time. The leaders of the country and the Party's epigraph over the years are following: Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Li Xiannian, Bo Yibo, Zou Jiahua, Ni ZhiFu, Hu Juewen, Hu Ziang, etc..