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ppzhan News: On May 14, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a notice on its website approving a total of 192 standards across three industries — machinery, light industry and packaging. Six of them involve the printing and packaging industry, all taking effect on October 1 this year. Of these six standards, four are classified as light industry industry standards and published by China Light Industry Press; two are classified as packaging industry standards and published by China Planning Press. The four light industry standards are all revisions, replacing

ppzhan News: Some industry experts believe that in the future the packaging paper industry, by virtue of the recyclability of paper packaging, will benefit from the introduction of national carbon-reduction standards for packaging. According to a report in Paper Packaging Industry, from January 1, 2011, there will be national standards to follow for pre-reducing packaging volume, reusing packaging and recycling packaging materials. In August this year, the Standardization Administration of China issued the "Announcement No. 3 of 2010 on the Approval of National Standards", among which

ppzhan News: During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the main goals for R&D on digital workflows are: to develop workflow and interface technologies that conform to mainstream standards, raise the digitalization level of printing processes and the automation level of multi-color printing equipment, with some products reaching advanced levels by 2015. Digital printing and printing digitalization technology and equipment (1) Digital printing presses, with the focus on inkjet digital printing presses: At present, digital printing presses are mainly divided into electrostatic imaging digital printing

ppzhan News: As an important supporting industry for the development of the printing industry, the printing equipment manufacturing industry must, in accordance with the requirements of the printing industry's development, strengthen independent innovation capacity, carry out R&D and production of key printing technology and equipment, and provide strong support for China's goal of building a world printing power. In light of the current development trends and tasks facing the printing industry, during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the printing equipment manufacturing industry will make key breakthroughs in the following areas. 1

ppzhan News: As a field of industry, printing is judged by its products — the scoreboard of the printing industry. If printing products are not made well, the knock-on effects spread like falling dominoes. For China's printing industry, products have long been the target of criticism: although "Made in China" has shaped the habits of people around the world, it often brings thin margins and slow sales, losing money just to make a noise, with raw, labor-intensive products as the embodiment of value, and the products we make

ppzhan News: In the "2010 Tariff Implementation Plan" (Tariff Commission [2009] No. 28) issued by the State Council Tariff Commission, seven types of printing equipment were newly added and their import tariffs lowered. (1) The provisional tariff rate for the curved tube of paper cutting machines is 4%, a reduction of 50% from the previous 8% MFN rate; (2) under tariff code 84431313, four-color sheet-fed offset printing presses with a printing speed of 16,000 folio sheets/hour or above/

ppzhan News: The General Administration of Press and Publication has recently received formal approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, which has allocated 54.2 million yuan as a special appropriation from the structural adjustment funds of central budget investment to provide central budget investment support for the 10 projects under the two major printing industry programs it coordinated and applied for — digital printing and printing digitalization, and the building of a green printing environmental protection system. The central government will provide dedicated support for the printing industry for three consecutive years. According to the Administration's 2010

ppzhan News: GB/T 3264-2005 Sheet-fed offset printing presses 2005-07-11 2006-01-01 GB/T 3264-1989 GB/T20956-2007 Paper cutting machines — Safety rules for design and construction 2007-06-25 2007-11-01 GB/T23279-2009 Sheet-fed paper feeders 2009-03-

ppzhan News: (1) The basic principles and framework for formulating printing environmental protection standards in China. Implementing green printing in China is still a new endeavor. We mainly draw on the experience and practices of developed countries and, in light of China's actual conditions, formulate standards, monitoring methods and related measures that suit our national conditions. The basic principles are: uphold the scientific outlook on development, protect consumers' rights and interests, and, in keeping with the people-oriented purpose, while drawing on and absorbing foreign standards and

2011 is the opening year of the implementation of the "12th Five-Year" development plan for Tianjin's packaging industry. The working approach of the Tianjin Packaging Technology Association is to uphold the Scientific Outlook on Development as the theme, take accelerating the transformation of economic development as the main line and deepening reform and opening up as the key lever, so as to promote relatively fast and steady economic growth; at the same time, with the support of the leadership of the Economic and Information Commission, the association will consciously abide by its own articles of association and strengthen its self-development, and through "technological innovation, management expansion and service guidance" further give play to the association's role as a bridge and bond