Before 1949, offset printing paper in China mainly relied on imports, because the imported goods were produced by British Dowling Paper Mill, commonly known as "Dowling Paper". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, all provinces and cities can produce offset printing paper, which is basically self-sufficient.
Although the history of painting and calligraphy mounting is long, there are not many written records left. According to the existing literature, the earliest record of mounting historical materials is Zhang Yanyuan's Record of Famous Paintings in Past Dynasties in Tang Dynasty, which mentioned: "Since Jin Dynasty, it has not been well mounted, but it was mounted in Song Dynasty. Ye Fan, the satrap of Xuancheng in the Southern Song Dynasty, the author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and a famous historian, was an early master of mounting in the history of mounting in China. Emperor Taizong made great efforts to collect Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and famous paintings of past dynasties, appointed Wang Hang to mount them directly, and Wang Zhijing supervised them, which shows that the Tang Dynasty attached importance to painting mounting.