A hundred years of development in modern industrial sectors has witnessed the completion of the industrialization process and the gradual integration of manufacturing and the service industry in European and American countries. Since the 1980s，manufacturing companies in these countries have successively started the business transformation from basic services focusing on products to intermediate and advanced services focusing on customer needs. Accordingly，this change of enterprise practice has termed as servitization of manufacturing （SOM） in western academic circles. In the 21st century，with the rise of China’s manufacturing industry and the wide application of Internet，big data and other cutting-edge technology，new changes have taken place in the servitization practice of manufacturing companies，and the corresponding research also presents new findings. Through analyzing new trend shown both in practice and research，this paper not only sets up benchmark for Chinese manufacturing companies to understand their peers，but also provides international comparison for the construction of SOM theory framework with Chinese characteristics.