The Shandong Equipment Manufacturing Industry Association was established on December 28, 2016, jointly initiated by the backbone enterprises of the equipment manufacturing industry in the province and local social associations. It is a provincial-level, comprehensive, non-profit social organization in the equipment manufacturing industry approved and registered by the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs after the decoupling of social organizations from the government. We have promoted the establishment of six city level associations in Jining, Zibo, Weihai, Yantai, Dezhou, and Tai'an, and set up offices in Zaozhuang, Linyi, and Binzhou. We have five directly affiliated branches in engineering machinery, special vehicles, mining electromechanical, forging, and hydraulic industries, as well as group members such as Tengzhou Machinery Industry Association, Laizhou Equipment Manufacturing Industry Association, Zoucheng Mining Electromechanical Equipment Industry Association, and Liangshan County Special Vehicle Industry Association. There is an expert committee, standardization work committee, and digitalization professional committee composed of more than 400 professors from universities, research institutes, and senior engineers from enterprises both inside and outside the province. At present, the Association has more than 3000 backbone member units of all kinds, covering 130 districts and counties in 16 cities, including machine tools, engineering machinery, agricultural machinery, transportation machinery, automobile manufacturing, shipbuilding, marine equipment, aviation equipment, new energy equipment, special equipment, casting and forging, electrical engineering, instrumentation, intelligent manufacturing (industrial Internet) and other sub industries. Among them, there are more than 500 core member units above the director level, and they are group members of China Machinery Industry Federation, China Machinery Enterprise Management Association, and Shandong Federation of Industry and Commerce. In 2019 and 2024, it was rated as a "5A level social organization" by the Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs. In 2022, it was rated as a "key industry chain high-quality development promotion institution" by the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. In 2023, it was rated as a "four good" chamber of commerce by the Shandong Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce.

On December 28, 2018, the "Communist Party of China Shandong Equipment Manufacturing Industry Association Party Branch" was established with the approval of the Comprehensive Party Committee of the Social Organization Management Bureau of the Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs. It has been rated as a "5-star Party Branch", "Party Building Work Demonstration Point", and "Excellent Branch for Standardized Party Branch Construction" by the Comprehensive Party Committee of the Shandong Provincial Social Organization Management Bureau.