Thermal power generation is the main power generation mode in China. As one of the three main equipments in thermal power plants, utility boilers have developed with the development of thermal power industry in China.

In recent years, environmental protection and energy saving have become an important direction of structural adjustment of China's electric power industry. Guided by the policy of "big pressure and small pressure", the thermal power industry has actively promoted the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, closed a large number of small thermal power units with low energy efficiency and heavy pollution, and greatly accelerated the upgrading of domestic thermal power equipment.

Forward-looking Industry Research Institute's In-depth Investigation and Investment Forecast Analysis Report of China Power Plant Boiler Industry shows that by the end of 20 10, thermal power units with a single capacity of 300,000 kilowatts or more will account for more than 60% of all thermal power units. The "big pressure and small pressure" in the thermal power industry has also promoted the development of utility boilers in the direction of high parameters and large capacity. In addition, clean coal technologies such as circulating fluidized bed (CFB) and IGCC have gradually matured and been widely used, thus promoting the development of CFB boilers and IGCC gasifiers.