China's packaging industry has a large social demand, increasing scientific and technological content, has become one of the important industries of China's national economy. According to forecasts, from 2011 to 2015, the total output value of the packaging industry reached 600 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 6%. By 2015, the paper packaging products can reach 36 million tons, plastic packaging products 9.46 million tons, metal packaging products 491 million tons, glass packaging products 15.5 million tons, packaging machinery and 1.2 million sets. By 2020, China's packaging industry will meet the comprehensive construction of well-off society needs, and built a high technological content, good economic benefit, resource consumption is low, less environmental pollution, human resources advantages into full play of the new type of China packaging industry. Packaging industry has become a "sunrise" industry, the development potential is huge.

The food and beverage industry is the use of large packaging industry, the current packaging industry chain in China has extended its extension to the industrial development, the upstream raw material but also the development direction, to the downstream consumer market.

With more and more packaging materials for the discovery and application of the type of packaging in China is more abundant. Due to the rapid development of industrial materials, the emergence of many new packaging materials, such as microwave oven special packaging, retort packaging, (PET bottle) and other new composite materials, and has high compressive, barrier property, heat sealing, gas barrier properties, such as high performance of packaging materials.

At present, China's packaging industry still exist many unreasonable, that is, from the point of view of product structure, simple, original products, deep processing and finishing products less; common plastic packaging products accounted for a larger proportion, functional packaging product development is not enough; heavy light plastic packaging products, plastic packaging materials and heavy equipment light technology, re production light research and development; product upgrading slow, resulting in plastic packing product structure is not reasonable, unable to fully meet the changes in market demand. The two is from the enterprise structure, the overall size of the plastic packaging enterprises, low industrial concentration. The three is from a regional structure, the western region packaging industry is relatively backward, and the eastern part of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian plastic packaging industry is developed.

Future development of the packaging industry is not limited to the development and application of the packaging material itself, but also on the deep processing time, our packaging industry is still in the packaging industry chain downstream, many low level packaging technology, the sustainable development of the packaging industry in the future need from the adjustment of industrial structure.

In the packaging industry downstream packaging not only has the function to protect food, convenient transportation and so on, it has become one of the growth of commodity value, is an important link to improve the added value of goods. Therefore in the terminal market, packaging enterprises pay more attention to the humanization and functional packaging.