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From 2017 to 2021, the corrugated and containerboard market followed a trajectory of "surge – wide-range fluctuation – momentum-building upswing". In 2017, affected by the ban on waste paper imports, corrugated and containerboard prices climbed for a time, with corrugated paper reaching 5,400 yuan/tonne and containerboard breaking through the 6,000 yuan/tonne mark, forming the ceiling of the containerboard market; from 2018 to 2020, prices fluctuated widely, mainly affected by China-US trade friction and public health incidents; in 2021, affected by external

Eight departments in Heilongjiang Province recently jointly issued the Opinions on Accelerating the Green Transformation of Express Packaging in Heilongjiang Province, specifying that by 2025 the province will completely ban non-degradable plastic packaging materials and that express packaging will basically achieve green transformation. The Opinions make clear that Heilongjiang will strengthen green governance of express packaging, tighten the standardized management of e-commerce and express delivery, increase the supply of green products, cultivate new models of recyclable packaging, and promote the establishment of laws, regulations and policies compatible with green concepts

Recently, the packaging world has been flooded with news of Dashengda's new molded pulp eco-friendly tableware project in Hainan. Just a few days earlier, Dashengda officially announced that it had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jiteli. The two parties will jointly invest in the establishment of Hainan Dashengda Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., and invest in the construction of the "Molded Pulp Eco-Friendly Tableware Intelligent R&D and Production Base Project" in the Haikou National High-tech Zone, with a total project investment of 500 million yuan. On November 10, Hainan Dashengda was officially registered and established. Once the project is fully completed

China's implementation of a "zero import" policy on recovered paper has brought dramatic changes to the global recovered paper trade landscape, and has also driven new shifts in the packaging paper trade in China and other major markets. The 10th Fastmarkets RISI Asian Recycled Paper and Containerboard Conference dedicated a special roundtable session, with specially invited guests Yao Guanjun, Pulp Procurement Director of Shandong Sun Paper Industry Joint Stock Co., Ltd., Li Junyi, Director and Deputy General Manager and Procurement Manager of Dongguan Jianhui Paper Co., Ltd., and V

Guangdong's papermaking output alone accounts for one-fifth of the national total. As a major province in the papermaking industry, Guangdong has an excellent technical foundation in pulp and paper processes and also shows enormous advantages in developing a modern pulp molded products industry. In recent years, the Guangdong papermaking industry has been paying close attention to the government's various environmental protection policies, vigorously promoting technological transformation for energy conservation and emission reduction and low-carbon environmental protection throughout the industry, and urging enterprises to strictly implement the country's latest requirements and standards; by the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan it had already completed the elimination of backward

Studies have shown that one-third of consumer decisions are based on packaging. Ipsos' "China Food and Beverage Trends and Consumer Insights" notes that 53% of consumers are willing to try new packaging, 59% are willing to pay more for a product with better, more creative packaging design, 72% are willing to pay more for an attractive brand image, and 80% lean toward personalization. Nowadays, packaging has long moved beyond superficial "homework

Printing and packaging products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions, including Europe, the United States, Japan and Australia; the enterprises' process technology level and innovation capability rank among the top of the industry in the province and even across the country; they have been rated a "high-quality supplier" by customers for many consecutive years; printing and packaging accounts for one-third of SF Express's supply share, and seed packaging accounts for 70% of the national market... This is the Jinan Printing and Packaging Industrial Park, located in Yuhuangmiao Town, Shanghe County. The Jinan Printing and Packaging Industrial Park has a total investment of 1 billion yuan and covers an area of 2

Recently, the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Office of Qiaotou Town, Dongguan, launched a special campaign to rectify the printing industry market, deploying law enforcement personnel 141 times, inspecting 47 printing enterprises, filing cases against and investigating 3 printing plants operating in violation of regulations, with fines exceeding 90,000 yuan — a strong deterrent to the printing industry market! It is understood that the Qiaotou Town Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Office set up two responsibility-area inspection teams to conduct dragnet-style screening of printing enterprises in the town through routine inspections, off-hour inspections, surprise inspections and other forms, and carried out in-depth

As a barometer of the economy, the packaging industry has seen a rather sluggish market this year. Apart from exports, which are a lone bright spot, domestic demand orders seem to show no sign of picking up. As a result, many people hold a pessimistic view of domestic consumption. But let's flip it around and think: the unrestrained expansion of production capacity in the packaging industry may be the other side of the coin behind too many players chasing too few packaging orders. Judging from officially released data, domestic consumption does not seem that weak. On November 9, a report released today by Kantar Consumer Index

Recently, under the guidance of the Jieyang Municipal Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office, Jieyang public security organs smashed two dens that used online shopping platforms to sell illegal publications and one illegal printing den, arresting 4 criminal suspects and seizing more than 140,000 illegally published books, two printing machines and a batch of other tools; with this, the entire chain of a criminal gang suspected of printing and selling illegal publications has been completely dismantled. It is understood that in early September this year, the Environmental, Food and Drug Crime Investigation Detachment of the Jieyang Municipal Public Security Bureau received a tip-off from the municipal anti-pornography and anti-illegal