1878, British businessman Jardine Matheson established China Refined Sugar Company in Hongkong. The machine is purchased from England, and refined sugar is produced from soil sugar, which can handle 4000 tons of soil sugar every day. 1880, Jardine Matheson opened a branch in Shi Jiao, Shantou, Guangdong.
In addition, British businessmen also set up Swire Sugar Refining Company in Swire Foreign Firm in Hong Kong.
After Britain, American and Japanese businessmen also set up mechanical sugar factories in China, and the sugar-making technology, technology and equipment were introduced from abroad. Due to social unrest and poor management, these sugar factories failed to survive for a long time.
1905, sugar beet was planted in northeast China. 1908 Build a sugar beet factory (Acheng Sugar Factory) with a daily processing capacity of 350 tons.
19 15 A sugar beet factory (Hulan Sugar Factory) with a daily processing capacity of 350 tons will be built.
19 16, the Japanese established "Nanman Sugar Co., Ltd." in the northeast of China, and established a Toyota Sugar Factory with a daily processing capacity of 500 tons of sugar beet in the suburbs of Shenyang, which was put into operation in 19 17. Tieling Sugar Factory was built in Tieling on 1922, and both sugar factories stopped production on 1926.
1920 Beijing puyi company built puyi sugar factory in Jinan, Shandong province, 192 1 put into production, 1929 stopped production.
Before 1930s, sugar beet, sugar cane and refined sugar factory; Sugar factories established by foreign capital or national capital have failed. China's mechanized sugar industry has not yet formed, and it is still in the stage of manual sugar production. The ancient method of pulling stones from cows with sugarcane to make sugar is still popular today, and local sugar houses, earth sugar houses and small workshops are all over urban and rural areas. The output and quality of sugar is not as good as that of advanced countries, so it needs a lot of imported sugar.
From 1929 to 1933, a serious economic crisis broke out in the capitalist world, and many companies and businessmen were eager to promote unsalable goods and overstocked equipment. China has become a big market for their capital export. For example, Honolulu Iron Works in the United States and Skoda Factory in the Czech Republic came to Guangdong at this time to promote their backlog of sugar-making equipment.
Guangdong warlords tried to enrich their economic strength, consolidate and expand their political status by establishing sugar industry, and vigorously supported and established mechanized sugar industry.
Guangdong sugar industry has a long history and abundant raw materials (sugarcane), which is also beneficial to the development of sugar industry objectively. From August of 1933 to June of 1936, under the contract of Honolulu Iron Works and Czech Skoda Works, six mechanized sugar factories were built in Guangdong, namely Stone, Shunde, Dongguan, Zhao Xin, Huiyang and Jieyang. Its designed total production capacity is 7000 tons of sugarcane and 700 tons of sugar per day. All machinery and equipment are imported from abroad, and the scale of technical equipment is unprecedented. Guangdong has become an important base for sugar mechanization in China.
The upsurge of establishing mechanized sugar industry in Guangdong also spread to other provinces that can use sugarcane to make sugar, and then mechanized sugar factories were established one after another. However, due to the turbulent situation and weak industrial base, these new mechanized sugar factories failed to develop and prosper, and many sugar factories were forced to close down.
Since the 20th century, the mechanization of sugar industry in Taiwan Province Province has developed rapidly. The earliest mechanized sugar factories were established in 190 1, and reached 1945. There are 42 mechanized sugar factories in the province. During the period of 1934 ~ 1943, the sugar industry in Taiwan Province Province developed rapidly, and the sugar output increased sharply, with a large number of exports. During the sugar-making period of 1938 ~ 1939, the output of machine-made sugar reached1370,000 tons.