Humans have known to take sweets from fresh fruits, honey and plants. Later, it was developed to make maltose from grains, and then to make sugar from sugarcane beets. The history of sugar production has roughly experienced three stages: early sugar production, manual sugar production and mechanized sugar production.

Early sugar production stage: China is one of the countries with the most premature sugar production in the world. In the early stage, maltose and sucrose were dominant, and maltose played a greater role.

Sugar-making stage of handicraft industry: Since sugarcane pith was obtained from sugarcane in the Warring States period, sugarcane planting has become increasingly prosperous and sugarcane sugar-making technology has gradually improved. After nearly a thousand years of development, a large-scale workshop-style sugar industry has been formed in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Mechanized sugar-making stage: from the end of 18 to the beginning of 19, the success of beet sugar-making greatly promoted the development of sugar-making industry and directly led to the mechanization of sugar-making industry. For a long time, the main raw material for sugar production is sugarcane, which can only grow in tropical and subtropical regions and cannot be planted in cold regions to make sugar. /kloc-at the end of 0/8th century, a new sugar raw material, beet, was finally discovered, which brought a major breakthrough to the development of sugar industry.