Status Quo and Development Trends of China's Paper Product Packaging Industry (II)

The correlation between the packaging industry and foreign trade is very high. The development level of China's foreign trade directly affects the market space of the packaging industry. Products in the packaging industry are often directly faced with consumers and are closely related to the living standards of urban and rural residents. With the deepening of urbanization in China, the people’s material and cultural living standards have improved, and packaging products, especially paper products with green features The demand for packaging materials is increasing. The survival conditions and service scope of the packaging industry determine that its development cannot be separated from the development of all walks of life in the national economy. It is inseparable from the equipment, technology, and raw materials provided by the manufacturing, agriculture, and extractive industries, and it is related to the market demand arising from its development. In the last five years of the last century, paper product packaging basically maintained a double-digit growth rate. Far above the general level of development of our national economy.
According to the forecast made by China's "10th Five-Year Plan" packaging industry, during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" and even in 2015, the pace of development of paper product packaging will gradually slow down to a level close to that of the national economy. (table 3)
Table 3 Year Forecast of China's Paper Products Packaging Materials Production and Development Production (ten thousand tons) growth rate%

Since the 1920s, since resisting brutal handling and eliminating extensive packaging, the paper product packaging industry has experienced a major development stage with the establishment of a market economy system in China and the overall development of the national economy, as well as the revitalization of the entire packaging industry. . The socialist market economy and the reform and opening up have provided the traditional and emerging paper products industry with conditions for vigorous development and new vitality. On the basis of the overall policy of China’s reform and opening up, we adhere to the principle of “everyone in the packaging industry and everyone in the packaging industry”. The paper product industry has gradually embarked on a stable, healthy and coordinated development path.
The work report of the Paper Product Packaging Commission in 2001 revealed that by the end of the last century, by the end of 1998, China had imported and produced 1046 cartons production lines, 7,000 single-sided machines, and it had formed a production capacity of 20 billion square meters, and the actual production of corrugated paper the following year. The box is about 11.5 billion square meters. Compared with the output of 6.3 billion square meters in 1995 four years ago, the annual growth rate exceeded 20%. Corrugated cartons are an important aspect of the entire paper product packaging product.
The report pointed out: "In the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, China's economic development has become internationalized, and the number of international trade has increased, which has promoted the upper and higher level of products in the paper packaging industry. The foreign exchange and cooperation of paper packaging related industries has increased, the number of joint ventures has increased, and the number of joint ventures has increased. Advanced foreign technology and equipment, absorbing advanced management experience, thus improving the quality of products, and significantly improving the matching ratio of export goods and domestic demand goods packaging.” In addition to the development of carton equipment, paper drums, paper bags, paper tubes and pulp molding Products and other technical equipment also have a long enough development, some of which are through the transformation or transformation, or the introduction of foreign equipment technology, and some are filled with blanks from scratch. The whole paper product packaging industry in China has begun to take shape and can meet the needs of the development of the national economy.
(II) Problems to be Solved From the perspective of the development level of the industry as a whole and from the point of view of the industrial structure and product structure, especially the structure of the enterprise, there are still obvious gaps and deficiencies in the paper packaging industry, and there are some deep-level issues that need to be seriously addressed. The specific performance is:
1. The level of overall modern management is not high, and the level of economic efficiency is not satisfactory. SMEs are still the majority, while the number of large-scale backbone enterprises and the space for their role are limited, thus affecting the overall level of the industry as a whole. Even in large and medium-sized enterprises, the traditional “hardware, light software” ideology still occupies a certain market, resulting in the management level can not keep up with the process of technological transformation of equipment, compared to developed countries, basically still in the enterprise Extensive operating status. Another non-negligible problem is that most companies do not have information, especially lack of operational experience and market information in the international market. In order to obtain market share, only vicious competition can be adopted. The defects in the internal and external aspects of the company lead to low profitability, and a large number of enterprises have low profits and large losses.
2. Product grades need to be improved due to insufficient capital investment, new product development and technology promotion ability is not strong, scientific and technological achievements can not be quickly applied to production. The medium and low-end products can still meet the needs of various industries, but the product update rate is slow, and high-grade, high-performance packaging products are still in short supply.
3. The basic raw materials and machinery and equipment have dragged down. The national economy and international economic and trade development require various new types of paper packaging products. However, some domestic packaging raw material supply capacity is insufficient. The variety, quantity, and quality cannot meet the demand, which restricts the development of the paper packaging industry. For example, in paper and paperboard, there are millions of tons of imports each year. From the figures in Table 3, it can be seen that there is a large gap between supply and demand. In 2000, imports of 5.2 million tons were imported. In 2001, the import volume decreased, and 4.83 million tons remained.
In terms of machinery and equipment manufacturing, compared with similar foreign equipment, domestic equipment has a large gap in terms of specifications, performance, efficiency, degree of automation, adaptability, and scientific and technological content, and there is also a gap between similar equipment in Taiwan. In terms of corrugating equipment, the types, quantities, and technical levels of subsequent equipment processed into box equipment and their corresponding configurations cannot be matched with the host, and the main and auxiliary and front-rear processing capabilities are not balanced.
4. The pace of technological progress is slow. Whether from the perspective of the whole industry or the individual enterprise, the pace of technological advancement in the paper packaging industry remains to be increased. Regardless of scientific research, technology, information, engineering, education, standards, etc., there is no authoritative center that specializes in serving the industry, nor does it take them as the backbone and orientation, and forms a joint force in technological innovation and product development. , driving the development of the entire industry. The degree of independent development of the enterprise is not enough. In most cases, it is simple to introduce and purchase equipment. Small factories are more imitative and apply. If a company that manufactures molding equipment blindly selects foreign prototypes for counterfeiting, this prototype is actually a device that people use to make pilot tests. When customers install it, they do not do process design, so these prototypes exist after they have been put into production. There are many problems such as unstable production and serious energy waste. Units that use this type of equipment will lose their advantage if they have other competitors, even if they are small because of the small size of the factory and they are nimble and flexible. (To be continued)