Discussing the Development Prospects of Domestic Landscape Machinery from the History of Foreign Landscape Machinery Development

Due to factors such as land resources, cultural environment, and living standards, most people in foreign countries like to plant ornamental plants in front and behind their own courtyards to beautify them. This can be seen from Western film and television works. They generally believe that "the courtyard is the face of the living room, the soul of the home, and the manifestation of prosperity and decline." A person who does not take care of their own courtyard will be seen as a "lazy man" and will also be criticized by neighbors.

At the beginning, garden machinery was not used for planting and pruning in landscaping, but rather as tools for farmers to cultivate crops. Regardless of style or function, they were very simple. However, at that time, there were no professional garden machinery to cope with heavy greening operations, so these farming equipment should have become alternative tools for landscaping work.


The development of foreign garden machinery can be traced back to the early 19th century. Prior to this, people mainly used long handled sickles to mow grass, which was a super laborious physical labor. In 1805, British engineer Thomas Plaknett invented the world's first lawn mower. In the following decades, engineers carried out multiple technological innovations on lawn mowers, greatly reducing the labor required for garden maintenance and replacing it with mechanized maintenance. The emergence of lawn mowers has provided significant inspiration and promotion for the development of garden machinery, becoming a guide for the development of garden machinery.

In the mid to late 20th century, with the continuous development of the economy, material satisfaction further promoted people's spiritual pursuit. People also developed a large number of specialized machinery and equipment for landscaping, such as pesticide sprayers and hedge machines. Especially in developed countries such as the United States, Britain, and Germany, these small and exquisite machinery have entered ordinary households and become essential household tools. Various types of garden machinery production enterprises have emerged, and a large number of green machinery tools have been produced, sold, and provided with one-stop after-sales services.


By the beginning of the 21st century, developed countries had fully mechanized operations from households to public green spaces. It is common to see green workers using landscaping machinery to beautify lawns, trees, and gardens, further improving the aesthetic level of urban greening. Various garden machinery are constantly developing towards humanization and intelligence, with the rapid development of science and technology as the background. Some foreign garden machinery manufacturers have even established dealer networks in various countries, exporting their produced garden machinery in large quantities, creating considerable net profits for their companies and dealers.

Compared to the development and application of garden machinery abroad, the rise of garden machinery in China came relatively late and only gradually developed after the reform and opening up. Its initial development was applied in the late 1970s, but its development can be described as slow. It was not until the mid-1990s, with the acceleration of national urban construction, the increase of urban beautification and ecological environment construction projects, that the previous artificial landscaping operation methods and energy storage operation modes could no longer meet the new situation of landscaping construction work. Landscape machinery was valued and rapidly developed, and more and more equipment was applied to landscaping construction projects. Currently, the common types of landscaping machinery in China mainly include the following:

Planting machinery information sharing

The common medium-sized garden machinery in urban landscaping and greening are tree excavators and pit excavators. Tree digging machines are mainly used in the process of transplanting garden seedlings. They directly cut off the roots below the soil ball carried by the roots and remove the seedlings with soil balls, promoting the survival rate of seedling transplantation. After the soil ball seedlings are transported to the designated location, they will be excavated and planted using a digging machine.


Trimming Machinery Information Sharing

Common lawn mowers and hedge trimmers in China. There are many types of lawn mowers, including push type and self-propelled type according to their operating mode. The most common lawn trimmer is the push type trimmer, which is small in size and easy to operate. It is mainly used for courtyard greening or small park green spaces, and is convenient and fast. The hedge trimmer is one of the beautification tools in garden machinery. Generally, portable hedge trimmers are divided into two types: double-edged hedge trimmer and single blade hedge trimmer. The double-edged trimmer is mainly used for trimming spherical hedge, while the single blade trimmer is mainly used for trimming wall shaped hedge.


Information sharing for sprinkler irrigation machinery

It is mainly divided into sprayer and spray, which are mainly used in the growth and maintenance of landscaping. The sprayer is easy to use and forms small water droplets that are evenly sprayed within the green area. It has the advantages of uniform spraying, reducing waste, saving labor, and improving efficiency. Spray machine is a medicine machine, which can be manual or motorized. The seasonal periodicity of this machine is very obvious. It is used more in spring and summer, and less in late autumn. The spray used in many large garden construction sites mainly includes high-pressure sprayer, high-pressure suspension spray, and lift suspension spray.


Cleaning machinery information sharing

In the past, fallen leaves were mainly cleared manually in garden management. In some larger gardens, more cleaning personnel need to be arranged, which invisibly increases the cost of garden management. Blowing and suctioning leaf machines can improve the efficiency of leaf cleaning. Currently, some high-power blowing and suctioning leaf machines can achieve a workload of 5-8 cleaning personnel per unit time, which has significant advantages in both work efficiency and operating costs.


Information sharing for crushing machinery

Crushing machinery is mainly divided into two types based on their movement: fixed crushers and mobile crushers. Its main function is to crush plant residues that have naturally died or been pruned during garden maintenance. The crushed materials are used as raw materials for the production of economic products such as biomass pellets, organic fertilizers, and biomass charcoal, solving the problem of waste disposal in garden greening and completely turning waste into treasure.


The landscape machinery industry is very similar to the construction machinery industry. Twenty years ago, China's construction machinery relied entirely on imports. Domestic enterprises such as Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion Heavy Industry have become global construction machinery giants through independent innovation. At the beginning of the development of garden machinery in China, it was mostly learned from abroad. Starting from the construction of urban landscaping in China, guided by national policies, the demand for planting, pruning, sprinkler irrigation, and cleaning machinery has surged. Domestic landscaping equipment manufacturers have innovated and surpassed the domestic landscaping maintenance situation, and independently manufactured and produced. Domestic garden machinery production enterprises, like foreign garden machinery production enterprises in the mid-20th century, have emerged in response to the times and developed rapidly. In less than half a century, most of their products have occupied the domestic demand market, replacing imported brands.

Unlike the electromechanical landscaping construction in foreign countries, China's landscaping industry has not yet applied mechanical equipment on a large scale by the beginning of the 21st century. The development of domestic independent brands of landscaping machinery is still in its early stages, so its development potential and space are huge, especially because the national policy guidance for the newly emerging specialized landscaping equipment industry, such as crushing machinery, is still blank.

In recent years, with the increasingly strict national environmental protection policies, garden waste has been prohibited from being discarded, buried, or incinerated in multiple cities. The commonly used treatment method at home and abroad is to crush it and use it for resource utilization. Tree crushing equipment has also begun to appear in the operation of garden waste treatment. However, due to the low domestic demand and mostly medium to large machinery before this, there were few domestic enterprises producing it. In the initial stage, it mainly relied on imports, and factors such as expensive imported equipment, shortage of accessories, and difficult maintenance seriously affected the resource utilization process of garden waste.

As one of the few domestic independent brands specializing in the research and development of tree shredders, Zhongneng Equipment has been determined to break through the situation since its establishment, deeply cultivating the industry of garden waste resource utilization. With the help of the R&D team's years of experience in the research and development of engineering machinery and equipment, we have strengthened technological innovation and innovation. Combining with the domestic situation of garden waste treatment, we have independently developed multiple tree shredding equipment, including traction type tree shredders, track type tree shredders, tree shredding vehicles, and other products, all of which are the first products in China. Currently, we have established subsidiaries in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Wuhan, and have laid a national sales network, successfully rewriting the import of tree shredders as China's creation.


Since the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China first included "ecological civilization" in the political report, the construction of ecological civilization has been raised to the height of development strategy. After more than ten years of greening construction, the domestic greening industry has made a leap forward, and the demand for mechanical equipment has shown a clear upward trend. Its importance is increasingly valued, which provides a broader market demand for garden machinery manufacturers. The construction of garden machinery has been recognized by construction units for its efficiency, speed, and standardization. The development and popularization of garden greening machinery is the trend and will inevitably follow the development history of foreign countries, but the speed will only be faster. It can be said that whoever can seize the market first will have an advantage.

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