Makampani owumba zamkati apanga kwazaka zopitilira 80 m'maiko ena otukuka kwambiri. Pakadali pano, makampani owumba zamkati ali ndi gawo lalikulu ku Canada, United States, Britain, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan, Iceland, Singapore ndi mayiko ena. Mwa iwo, Britain, Iceland ndi Canada ali ndi ukadaulo wokulirapo komanso ukadaulo wokulirapo.

China makampani zamkati akamaumba anayamba mochedwa. Mu 1984, Hunan zamkati akamaumba General Factory of China Kenaka Corporation padera ndalama zoposa 10 miliyoni n'chokwana mu Xiangtan, Hunan, ndipo anayambitsa makina ng'oma basi zamkati akamaumba kupanga mzere ku El kampani ya France, amene zimagwiritsa ntchito yopanga trays dzira, chimene chiri chiyambi cha makampani China zamkati akamaumba.

Mu 1988, mzere woyamba wamkati woumba wopangidwa ndi China udakhazikitsidwa, kutha mbiri yakudalira kulowetsa zida zamkati zoumba.

Chaka cha 1993 chisanafike, zopangidwa ndi zamkati ku China zinali makamaka thireyi la mazira a nkhuku, thireyi ya mowa ndi thireyi yazipatso. Zogulitsazo zinali zosakwatira komanso zotsika. Idagawidwa makamaka m'maiko a Shaanxi, Hunan, Shandong, Hebei, Henan ndi kumpoto chakum'mawa.

Kuyambira 1993, chifukwa chakum'mawa kwa makampani opanga zinthu padziko lonse lapansi, zogulitsa kunja kwa mabungwe akunja ku China zimafuna kugwiritsa ntchito zoteteza zachilengedwe. Zolemba zamkati zidapangidwa kuti zizikhala zolumikizidwa modabwitsa zamagetsi zamagetsi, zida zapanyumba, zida ndi mamitala, zida zamagetsi, zida zoyankhulirana, chakudya, mankhwala osokoneza bongo, zodzoladzola, zoseweretsa, zogulitsa, zosowa zatsiku ndi tsiku, kuyatsa ndi zinthu zina za mafakitale. Pogwira ntchito phukusili, lingafanane ndi pulasitiki yoyera ya thovu (EPS) pamtundu wina, ndipo mtengo wake ndi wotsika poyerekeza ndi ma CD a EPS amkati, omwe adzavomerezedwe posachedwa ndi msika. Choyamba, zidakula mwachangu ku Guangdong, kenako ku East ndi North China.