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Summary: According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, the National Environmental Protection Standard / Technical Requirements for Environmental Labeling Products — Printing, compiled under the auspices of the Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection) with the participation of the China Printing Technology Association, the Beijing Green Cause Culture Development Center and other organizations, has been approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and is officially promulgated and implemented as of today. Since the second half of 2009, the China Printing Technology Association, the Ministry of Environmental Protection

On March 1, 2011, the National Technical Committee for Printing Standardization (SAC/TC170) held in Beijing the first joint working meeting of the drafting groups for two national standards on digital printing. The meeting was chaired by Secretary-General Li An. Participants came from Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Peking University Founder Group, the Shanghai Digital Printing Industry Association, the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Canon (China) Co., Ltd., Beijing Unis Graphic System Co., Ltd., Kodak (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and

[Summary] The full text of the long-awaited Digital Printing Management Measures was issued recently, which is of great significance for regulating the digital printing market and can be described as a "timely rain" of policy. Digital Printing Management Measures Article 1 In order to regulate digital printing business activities and promote the healthy development of digital printing, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on Publication Administration, the Regulations on the Administration of the Printing Industry and relevant laws and regulations. Article 2 These Measures apply to the use of production-type digital printing machines to engage in the

Article 1 In order to implement responsibility for administrative law enforcement in printing and reproduction, strengthen routine law enforcement supervision over the printing and reproduction industry, establish and improve a long-term management mechanism, and build a strong country in printing and reproduction, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Administration of the Printing Industry, the Regulations on the Administration of Audio-Visual Products, and the Measures for the Administration of Reproduction. Article 2 For the purposes of these Measures, administrative law enforcement in printing and reproduction refers to the acts of press and publication administrative departments at all levels and comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market, within the scope of their duties, against printing or

Since January 1, 2009, China has begun implementing a new VAT policy, an important element of which is that the VAT paid by enterprises when purchasing equipment can be credited as input tax against the output tax on product sales. This has greatly spurred enterprises' appetite for investment and lowered the cost of purchasing equipment. It fits very well with China's requirement to continue expanding domestic demand in the face of the financial tsunami. What impact will the introduction of this policy have on financial leasing in the printing industry? We need to look at printing

[Content Summary] To encourage the packaging industry to transform its mode of economic development, reduce material usage and pollution, and advance the circular economy and the growth of green packaging, the Ministry of Finance recently issued the Notice on the Application for 2011 High-Tech R&D Funding Projects in the Packaging Industry (Cai Qi [2011] No. 29), and the full text of the Notice was published on the website of the China Packaging Federation. To encourage the packaging industry to transform its mode of economic development, reduce material usage and pollution, and promote

To advance the building of an ecological civilization and a resource-conserving, environment-friendly society in China, accelerate the implementation of the green printing strategy, promote the transformation of the development mode of China's printing industry, and achieve the goal of building a "printing powerhouse," on September 14, 2010, the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Ministry of Environmental Protection formally signed in Beijing the Cooperative Agreement on Implementing the Green Printing Strategy; the two ministries jointly set up a leading group for implementing the green printing strategy, to study and formulate a green printing action plan, and to formulate and issue

Today, the green printing trend in China is truly unstoppable. To help printing companies learn from the experience of developed countries, the Beijing Printing Association held a briefing on Japan's green printing standards and a promotion event for green printing technology in Beijing on April 26. So what makes Japan's printing standards superior? Let us take a closer look. The Japanese green printing standard is titled "Guidelines for Green Standards (Service) in Offset Printing"; it is a printing industry standard, established by the Japan Federation of Printing Industries in 20

On April 14, the Ministry of Finance website issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Application for 2011 Import Interest Subsidy Funds (Cai Qi [2011] No. 62), requiring local finance and commerce authorities and centrally administered enterprises to complete the joint review and compilation of their regions' and enterprises' import interest subsidy application materials before May 10 and submit them to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce. The notice sets out the requirements for enterprises applying for the subsidy. First, enterprises should, in accordance with the "Import Interest Subsidy

With the growing popularity of the Internet, digital short-run printing has become a new field for major printing companies to expand their market share. Moreover, since digital short-run printing can print on demand according to people's requirements and offers obvious time efficiency, cost effectiveness and print quality, it is bound to be accepted by more people and has a bright future. In China, printing enterprises are still at the exploratory stage with digital short-run printing, while FredericPrinting, a commercial printing company in Colorado, USA