造纸术作为中国古代四大发明之一，是中华民族为世界文明史做出的无与伦比的贡献。但由于历史的原因，中国具有规模的机制纸却落后于西方国家80年，直到1882年才始建中国第一家机器造纸厂──上海机器造纸局。过去一般认为，中国的第一家机制纸厂是美商创办的上海华章造纸厂。 As one of the four great inventions in ancient China, papermaking is the unparalleled contribution of the Chinese nation to the history of world civilization. However, due to historical reasons, China’s large scale mechanism paper lags behind Western countries for 80 years. It was not until 1882 that the first machine paper mill in China, the Shanghai Machine and Paper Bureau, was founded. In the past, it was generally believed that the first mechanism paper mill in China was the Shanghai Huazhang paper mill established by the United States.