New Measures in the View of Scientific Development of China Packaging Industry (I)

The “people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable” scientific development concept emphasizes that economic growth should be coordinated with population, resources, and environment. Economic development should be accompanied with environmental protection. Economic growth must be based on the bearing capacity of resources and ecological environment. This is a major strategic decision in the face of the world's three major crises of “population, resources, and the environment” and the growing environmental pollution in China and the deteriorating ecological environment. The scientific concept of development will also be an important basis for the government to carry out macro-control over the market, and it is a historic symbol of China's transformation from economic development that emphasizes only GDP and light environment to people-oriented and comprehensive economic and social development.

Faced with the transformation of China's economic development mode, under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, what new trends and trends will the packaging industry have? How should we deal with it and adopt new measures? This article will discuss this.

(a) Grades and questions

After more than 20 years of hard work, China's packaging industry has achieved world-renowned achievements: it was basically zero before 1978 and it was built into six modern categories including paper packaging, plastic packaging, metal packaging, glass packaging, packaging materials, and packaging machinery. System, packaging output value at a rapid rate of growth of 18% per year, this year's output value will reach 300 billion; in the national economy from the last few of the more than 40 industries to the 15th, packaging industrial product output It has also entered the top five in the world, making China a big packaging country in the world. It has made significant contributions to China's GDP growth, market prosperity, and foreign trade development.

However, due to the extensive and unrestrained consumption of resources in the packaging industry, there are also serious negative effects. The main problems are:

1, a large number of resources. 80% of packaging industry products are used once and become waste after use. The secondary utilization rate of resources is only 1/4 to 1/3 of that of industrialized countries. To meet the market demand, the number of products is large, so the waste of resources is even greater. Among the resources consumed, petroleum, quartz sand, and iron-aluminum ore are all non-renewable resources. Pulp and wood are taken from forest resources that are very lacking in China. Therefore, the packaging industry is a typical resource-consuming industry.

2, serious pollution environment. According to statistics, packaging waste in industrial countries accounts for 1/3 of urban solid waste, and is still increasing at a rate of 10% per year; this is particularly caused by non-degradable plastic packaging wastes such as foamed plastic, handbags, etc. White pollution has become a major public hazard.

(II) Development of new trends

As a guiding ideology for economic development, the scientific concept of development can well suppress the negative effects of the packaging industry and give better play to its positive functions. The packaging industry is expected to have the following new trends.

(to be continued)