The current environmental protection requirements and policy guidance put forward higher requirements for the green development of packaging industry, green packaging is more and more people’s attention, with the continuous upgrading of printing technology, as well as the concept of environmental protection is increasingly popular, green packaging will become an important direction of the future packaging industry development.  The current industrial environment promotes the rapid development of green packaging fields such as paper packaging in China.

Packaging refers to the overall name of containers, materials and auxiliary materials adopted according to certain technical methods in order to protect products, facilitate storage and transportation and promote sales in the process of circulation, and also refers to the operation activities of applying certain technical methods in the process of using containers, materials and auxiliary materials to achieve the above purposes.  Packaging is a sub-process of the logistics process.

1.Analysis of the market size of China’s packaging industry

Business revenue analysis

According to the statistical data of China Packaging Association, from 2017 to 2019, the growth rate of main business income of enterprises above designated size in China’s packaging industry (all industrial legal person enterprises with annual main business income of 20 million yuan or more) showed a decreasing trend year by year. In 2019, the main business of enterprises above designated size in China’s packaging industry accumulated more than 1 trillion yuan.  According to the comparable caliber, year-on-year growth of 1.06%.  Up to 2020, China’s packaging industry has achieved a total operating revenue of 1006.458 billion yuan, down 1.17% year on year;  The total accumulated profit reached 61.038 billion yuan, up 24.90% year on year.

Enterprise quantitative analysis

According to the statistical data of China Packaging Association, from 2016 to 2019, the number of enterprises above designated size in China’s packaging industry (all industrial legal persons with annual main business income of 20 million yuan and above) showed a steady rising trend.  In 2019, the number of enterprises above designated size in China’s packaging industry reached 7,916, up 1.10% year on year.  By 2020, the number of enterprises above designated size in China’s packaging industry has reached 8,183, 267 more than last year.  Reflect industry to enter bureau gradually increase, market competition is increasingly fierce.