The technological content of my country's packaging industry continues to increase, and it has gradually become one of the important industries in the domestic national economy. It is estimated that by 2020, my country's packaging industry will develop a new type of building materials industry with high technological content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption, less environmental pollution, and full use of the advantages of human resources. The packaging industry has huge development potential and has become a veritable sunrise industry.

Although the development prospects of the domestic packaging industry are broad, there are still three unreasonable aspects in the current domestic packaging industry: First, the product structure is mainly simple, with a large number of original products, and product upgrades are slow, resulting in unreasonable plastic packaging product structure , Cannot fully adapt to changes in market demand; second, the overall scale of packaging enterprises is small, and the industrial concentration is low; third, the development of various regions is uneven, the packaging industry in the western region is relatively backward, and the development in the eastern region is relatively developed.

Packaging materials are constantly being introduced. In addition to traditional paper, plastic, glass, and metal packaging, people have begun to explore the use of new types of raw materials to make packaging, and plant raw materials have begun to enter the market. With the discovery and application of more and more packaging materials, the types of domestic packaging materials will be more abundant in the future. With the rapid development of the material industry, new packaging materials with higher pressure resistance, barrier properties, heat sealing properties, and gas barrier properties, such as special packaging for microwave ovens, continue to appear. However, it should be noted that the development of the packaging industry in the future is not only limited to the research and development and application of packaging materials itself, but also to work hard on intensive processing. In the future, if the packaging industry wants to develop continuously, it must fundamentally adjust the industrial structure.

At present, my country's packaging industry is still in a stage of rapid development. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the domestic packaging industry will continue to maintain a healthy and stable development trend, its independent innovation capabilities will continue to be strengthened, the industrial structure will be further optimized, and the sustainable development capabilities will be significantly improved. Estimate: From 2011 to 2015, the total output value of the packaging industry may grow at an average annual rate of 6%. By 2015, paper packaging products are expected to reach 36 million tons, plastic packaging products 9.46 million tons, metal packaging products 4.91 million tons, glass packaging products 15.5 million tons, and packaging machinery 1.2 million sets. By 2015, the overall level of informatization of the packaging industry is expected to reach or exceed the moderately developed countries.