In 2011, the packaging industry, industrial output was 929.639 billion yuan in industrial output value of packaging industry and packaging industry in the country's total industrial output value of 10% in 2011, industrial output value of packaging industry is estimated to reach 90 billion yuan, the number of enterprises reached 2000. China's packaging industry, packaging materials can produce more than 30 varieties of six categories, and has to meet the basic needs of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, sales have accounted for about 15% of industry sales.
In the packaging industry, large enterprises, state-owned enterprises small, private enterprises many and scattered, small overall size of the industry, while facing many foreign brand market intrusion, such as Germany SCHOTT Group, relying on its strong technical and economic strength inroads into the Chinese market. During the second five, China's packaging industry needs consolidation, through syndication, acquisitions, mergers and other means, the formation of some large enterprises, joint ventures, thus promoting the healthy development of the industry forward.
With the rapid development of China's economy, people's living standards improve health care costs and an aging population due to increased efforts to develop new drugs to increase the pace of reform of the health care system to accelerate and expand medical insurance for urban residents, industry will continue to maintain rapid growth momentum. Also China packaging materials and packaging quality varieties are significantly lower than the international level. Investigation, in developed countries, accounting for 30% of the value of the product packaging, while China is less than 10%. The next few years will be a period of rapid development of China's packaging industry.
"Packaging industry," second five "Development Plan (draft)" put forward, packaging is an important part of the industry, direct contact with drug packaging materials containers are the basic elements of drugs, drug quality and drug safety have a major impact. Therefore, in the industry, "second five" plan, the packaging should be placed with the same status as the drug instead of supporting industries in the national industrial planning should be given clear. Study packaging materials should be synchronized with the development of drugs, packaging industry should increase policy support efforts to reflect the industrial policy of the packaging material, product and technical areas focusing on the development and direction of development.