This article reviews the development of ion sources for materials processing and the progress of commercial product of ion sources in China. The various ion-beam processing and the relative needs to ion sources are mentioned and discussed, such as ion sources with ion implantation, plasma immersion ion implantation, ion-beam-assisted deposition, ion-beam deposition, and so on. The states of progress for different kinds of ion sources specially for electron cyclotron resonance∕microwave, metal vapor vacuum arc, radio frequency (rf) ion source, end-Hall ion source, and cluster ion source, are given and discussed.