It refers to the construction site for the workers to operate and resolve the vertical and horizontal transport and erection of various carriers. Generic term construction industry, refers to the construction site for use in exterior walls, interior or higher storey construction can not directly place. Primarily for construction workers to work up and down or perimeter security network maintenance and high altitude installation member, etc., that white is put on airs, scaffolding usually made are: bamboo, wood, steel or synthetic materials. Some projects also use scaffolding when a template, in addition to the advertising industry, municipal, transportation roads and bridges, mining and other sectors are also widely used.

China in 1949 and the early 1950s, construction of bamboo or wood are used scaffolding erection methods. From the 1960s to promote the steel tubular scaffolding couplers.

Since the 1980s, China in the development of advanced, multi-functional aspects of scaffolding achievement remarkable series such as door scaffold, bowls button steel scaffold series, has reached an annual output of thousands of tons of scale, and there are a certain number of Export.