Plastic packaging industry is a global, sustainable development of the industry. With the recovery of the world economy and the rapid development of modern business and logistics industry, packaging industry has risen rapidly in the world since the middle of the 20th century.

With multiple functions such as protecting goods, facilitating circulation, facilitating consumption, promoting sales and enhancing added value, packaging products have been more and more widely used in modern society and have become an indispensable part of commodity circulation.

(1) Definition of plastic packaging industry

Plastic packaging means packaging in plastic. Plastic is a synthetic or natural polymer resin as the main material. A class of materials that are malleable at certain temperatures and pressures and can be fixed when cooled by the addition of various additives.

(2) Relevant policies of plastic packaging industry

With the great achievements of China's economy and the rapid development of modern commercial and logistics industries, the plastic packaging industry has risen rapidly in China since the middle of the 20th century. To this country has also introduced relevant policies standard industry development.

(3) the market status of the plastic packaging industry

China is a big country of packaging manufacturing and consumption in the world. The proportion of plastic packaging in the total output value of packaging industry has exceeded 30%, and it plays an irreplaceable role in various fields of food, beverage, daily necessities and industrial and agricultural production. In recent years, the plastic packaging industry in China has been growing steadily, and the structure of packaging products is second only to paper packaging.

In 2019, there were 7,916 enterprises above the scale of packaging industry (all industrial legal persons with annual main business income of 20 million yuan and above), and the number of enterprises increased by 86 last year.

In 2019, the national packaging industry completed the cumulative business revenue of 10,03.253 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 1.06%, a year-on-year growth of 1.06%, the growth rate is 5.47 percentage points lower than the same period last year. Among them, the manufacturing of paper and cardboard containers accounted for 28.88%; Plastic film manufacturing accounted for 26.96%; Plastic packing boxes and container manufacturing accounted for 15.87%; Metal packaging containers and materials manufacturing accounted for 11.64%; Plastic processing special equipment manufacturing accounted for 6.49%; Glass packaging container manufacturing accounted for 6.08%; Softwood products and other wood products accounted for 4.1%.