Tribology in China

History of tribology researches in China is reviewed briefly in this paper. Development stages are divided and some memorable events in tribology researches in China are introduced in my personal view. The statistics of the funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and of published research papers on tribology in the database of Web of Science are analyzed in order to better understand the state-of-the-art of tribology researches in China, including most active research institutions and fields. In addition, major research contents are obtained according to keywords and main achievements in tribology related to lubrication, lubricating materials, superlubricity, wear, biotribology and bionictribology, nanotribology, surface engineering, tribology in extreme conditions, and machine elements, particularly for recent years, are summarized. This paper shows that tribology is a rapid developing discipline in China has been one of the most important contributors in world tribology.