The historical origin of the water meter industry

Since the invention of a balanced tank water meter with instrument characteristics in Britain, Krolls has been developing water meters for nearly two hundred years since 1825. China's water meter use and production started late. In 1879, Li Hongzhang established the country’s first water plant in Lushunkou to administer the navy. In 1883, the British colonialists established a second water plant in Shanghai and the water meter began to enter China. With the construction of water plants in some coastal cities successively, by the 20th century, Shanghai Guanghua Machinery Factory (now the predecessor of Shanghai Guanghua Instrument Factory) and other parts imported water meters from abroad. For quite a long time, the water meters of countries such as Britain, France, Japan and Germany have occupied the Chinese water meter industry. These meters with different varieties and specifications have brought about different water meter maintenance due to different standards and parts that cannot be exchanged. Great difficulty.

After the liberation in 1949, with the development of the urban water supply industry, China's water meter industry also developed accordingly. Since 1955, water companies in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou have begun producing water meters. In the early 1980s, the water meter industry was organized by the Shanghai Industrial Automation Instrumentation Research Institute of the Ministry of Machinery Industry. According to the requirements of the international standard ISO4046 for water meters at that time, a water meter with eight pointers and integral impellers was designed for the nationally unified design of small-diameter water meters. . The unified design and the plasticization of water meter components have created favorable conditions for the organization of specialized production of water meters, which has greatly promoted the progress and development of China's water meter industry and met the growing needs of the urban and rural tap water industry. In the 1990s, China's economic construction continued to develop at a rapid rate, and the water meter industry also developed rapidly. Both the number of enterprises and the total output had more than doubled, and products such as smart water meters and water meter reading systems also began to rise.