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[ppzhan abstract] As the year-end approaches, governments in many places have begun special rectification campaigns in the printing industry. Wenzhou, a major packaging and printing city, is among them, and Cangnan County has adopted a multi-pronged approach to crack down hard on illegal printing and reproduction activities. Recently, the rectification work of the printing industry in Cangnan County will aim to establish a long-term management mechanism, combining inspection with supervision, addressing symptoms with root causes, and cracking down on counterfeits with supporting quality producers, taking a multi-pronged approach to effectively curb and crack down hard on all kinds of illegal printing and reproduction activities, and earnestly

Starting tomorrow (February 1), the "Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging" will be officially implemented. As a local regulation for the country, these Provisions will further regulate commodity packaging on the basis of the national standard. Further refined on the basis of the national standard So-called "excessive packaging" refers to packaging that exceeds the appropriate functional requirements of packaging, where the packaging void ratio, number of packaging layers and packaging cost exceed the necessary level. In 2009, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued the national standard GB233

On January 10, at the 2013 press conference held by the Ministry of Health, Yang Yuexin, director of the Evaluation Office of the National Institute for Nutrition and Health under the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the implementation rules for the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods are expected to be fully introduced this year. When describing the specific measures taken since the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods came into effect, Yang Yuexin said: First, Q&A on more than 70 items of the General Rules has been published on the Ministry of Health website, which can basically address issues of public concern and corporate

Unlike in previous years, the 2013 centralized bidding for designated printing services for central government agencies requires that, for projects with a printing value of 200,000 yuan to 1.2 million yuan (1.2 million yuan included), procuring units select three or more designated printing enterprises (three included) to submit sealed quotations. Of these, at least one enterprise must be randomly selected from among the designated enterprises through the Central Government Procurement Network. The author learned from the contract award ceremony for 2013 central government agency designated printing suppliers held a few days ago

[ppzhan abstract] The Spring Festival, as a traditional Chinese holiday, always brings rapid growth to the food market. On the one hand this reflects people's demand for food, while on the other it also offers convenience to unscrupulous traders, because counterfeit and shoddy products are especially rampant at this time of year. But if consumers can clearly recognize the type sizes on packaging labels, they can fully protect their rights and interests from harm. The labeling content on packaging is a bewildering array of items that leaves one dazzled, and ordinary consumers

Taihainet, Feb 5 — According to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine's Guidelines for the Integrity Management of Quarantine of Imported Wood Packaging (Trial), the Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau began trialing integrity management for imported wood packaging quarantine on the 1st of this month, and after one scoring cycle — that is, one quarter — will step up quarantine inspection of wood packaging imported by non-compliant enterprises. An official from the Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau explained that integrity management of imported wood packaging mainly targets those found during on-site quarantine to have no IPPC mark or non-standard marks

Starting January 1, 2013, the 2013 Import and Export Tariff Schedule of the People's Republic of China came into force. Among its contents, the policies concerning the import of printing equipment drew the attention of people in the industry. Comparing the 2012 edition of the Tariff Schedule with the 2013 edition, the main changes in the new Tariff Schedule are reflected in three aspects: first, the new tariff schedule added "cross-cutting knife units for paper cutting machines" and "inkjet printing with 297 mm < web width < 360 mm

In recent years, online printers have taken a large share of the market for standard business printing such as business cards and letterhead, and the ability of a company to handle a large volume of such work every day means it can make very good use of proofs, which requires extensive technical knowledge in data preparation, positioning, prepress technology and shipping. There are slight differences between the business models of wide-format printing and advertising printing. Sometimes, for small-format products such as business cards, the trick of online printers lies in knowing how to

[ppzhan abstract] Standards, as a guarantee for the orderly development of an industry, have long been sought after by numerous enterprises. The printing blanket industry is no exception. At present, the field of national standards for printing blankets remains a blank, and according to an announcement released by the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee at the end of January 2012, the standard for offset printing blankets is tentatively scheduled for inclusion in the 2013 standard project establishment plan. At present, China's annual production capacity for printing blankets exceeds 1

On January 31, 2013, the General Office of the General Administration of Press and Publication issued a notice announcing the 12 key work points for the reform and development of press and publication in 2013, among which green printing technology, multimedia printed reading materials and green printing industrial bases were included. The notice pointed out that it is necessary to firmly establish the concept that "reform is always in progress and never completed," and, with a more resolute attitude and more powerful measures, unswervingly accelerate the reform and development of press and publication from a higher starting point. 2013