China's traditional optical component processing is gradually developed since the founding of new China, mainly distributed in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, military industry, aerospace research institutes and enterprises. China's optical processing industry as a whole is relatively scattered, small scale, outdated equipment, processing technology level compared with the international advanced level there is a large gap, especially in the efficient, high quality, low-cost mass production technology, engineering and industrialization level and promotion capacity is weak. Most optical companies have a low degree of processing automation and rely on the processing experience of employees to control quality and precision. The products are mainly used in traditional optical products such as telescopes, microscopes, and spectacle lenses. With a large number of international optical component enterprises setting up factories in China and establishing outsourcing relations with a small number of domestic optical processing enterprises, the development of domestic optical industry has been promoted, and the gap with the international advanced level has been gradually narrowed, A number of enterprises with advanced technology and equipment, high degree of automation, strong quality assurance and process control ability, mass production level of precision optical components and international market competitiveness have emerged.

The 21st century is the era of information economy, the status of information industry in the national economy will become increasingly prominent, and the development of information industry is closely related to the development of optoelectronic technology. Optoelectronic technology is an important technical support for key development fields such as contemporary information technology, new materials, life sciences, biomedicine, resources and environment, and the optical component manufacturing and processing industry is the core of the entire optoelectronic industry. At present, China has become a global manufacturing center, and the global industrial transfer has brought long-term favorable opportunities for the development of China's optoelectronic industry. The gradual establishment of a globalized and specialized division of labor and cooperation system is conducive to the participation of domestic optical enterprises in the competition of global optical enterprises at a higher level.