Packaging has more and more extensive applications in modern society due to its multiple functions of protecting products, facilitating circulation, facilitating consumption, promoting sales, and increasing added value. Its downstream areas include food, electronics, medicine, daily chemicals, tobacco, household appliances, and electromechanical devices. Such as national economy, all walks of life, is an integral part of commodity circulation. As a packaging manufacturing and consuming country, after more than 30 years of development, China's packaging industry has formed a modern industrial system with paper, plastic, metal, glass, printing, and machinery as the major components, with certain modern technologies and equipment, and more complete categories.

According to the different types of packaging materials, plastic packaging materials can be further divided into: flexible packaging films, plastic woven products, packaging boxes and containers, foam packaging materials, packaging sheets and other types.

China's plastic packaging industry market size

China's plastic packaging industry is huge and has maintained sustained and steady growth in recent years. According to the “Analysis Report on Production and Sales Demand and Investment Forecast of Plastic Packaging Industry” published by the Industry Research Institute of Qianwang, the sales revenue of China's plastic packaging industry reached 286.832 billion yuan in 2016, an increase of 8.02% year-on-year, and a compound growth rate of 7.94% over the past five years.

China's plastic packaging industry segment main income

After more than 30 years of development, China's plastic packaging has initially formed a complete range of industries with considerable technological level and a certain scale, which occupies an important position in the packaging market, and has become one of the largest in China's plastics industry and packaging industry. In 2015, the enterprises above designated size in the packaging industry in China completed a total of RMB 1,135.548 billion in main business income, of which the main business revenue of plastic packaging (plastic film, plastic containers and containers) accounted for 39.65% of the total.

During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, driven by steady advancement of new urbanization and consumption upgrades, the demand for petrochemical chemical products will continue to grow at a relatively fast pace. In 2015, China’s urbanization rate is about 56%. It is expected that by 2020, it will exceed 60%, and that more than 50 million people will move from rural areas to cities. New urbanization and consumption upgrading will greatly promote energy, building materials, household appliances, food, and clothing. Demand for vehicles and daily necessities increased, and the demand for petrochemical chemicals continued to increase.

From 2016 to 2020, the added value of China's petrochemical and chemical industries will increase by 8% annually. Plastic packaging is widely used in the packaging of various particles, powdered petrochemical products and chemical raw materials because of its advantages of low-consumption materials, light weight, easy transportation, and chemical resistance; the steady and steady growth of the petrochemical and chemical industries will be given to the upstream. The plastic packaging industry creates a vast market space.

The lightweighting trend of plastic packaging is becoming more and more obvious

Lightweighting is a common industrial term in the current packaging field, that is, packaging is produced with fewer materials and weight is reduced for packaging. Reducing the weight of the package helps protect the environment and reduce costs. When a plastic package is successfully weight-reduced, the use of resin materials in the plastic molding process is reduced, not only effectively saving resources, reducing costs, but also effectively reducing the amount of waste after packaging is used. Protect the environment.

National Industrial Policy Support

In recent years, the Chinese government has formulated a series of industrial policies to support and promote the development of the plastic packaging industry in the direction of high performance, high quality, and environmental protection.

Industry consolidation trend begins to appear

The number of plastic packaging companies in China is large, and the proportion of the output value of the enterprises above the designated size to the total output value of the industry is relatively low, and the industry concentration is relatively low. Most small and medium-sized enterprises lack core competitiveness. With the continuous advancement of advantageous industries in terms of technological innovation level, process manufacturing level, management level, and financial strength, China's plastic packaging industry has emerged an industry consolidation trend. As a traditional manufacturing industry with obvious scale effect, the advantageous enterprises in China's plastic packaging industry have begun to use modern capital to gradually expand rapidly, which is conducive to the expansion and strengthening of China's plastic packaging industry and the elimination of backward industries that are not competitive. Enterprises, thus helping to promote the overall strength of China's plastic packaging industry, and promote the healthy development of the industry.