Analysis of Development Trends in China's Printing Industry During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (2021–2025)

Coordinating pandemic prevention and control with economic development

China's economy has entered a new stage of high-quality economic development

In early 2020, in the face of the sudden and severe global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, China achieved major strategic results in coordinating pandemic prevention and control with economic and social development; won a decisive victory in the battle against poverty; and achieved great historic achievements in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. This demonstrated China's level of national governance and capacity for economic development, and once again showed the strong resilience and abundant momentum of the Chinese economy.

Statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that, calculated at comparable prices, China's economy crossed the new threshold of 100 trillion yuan in 2020, and per capita GDP exceeded USD 10,000 for the first time, a historic breakthrough. It became the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth in 2020 amid the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. China once again provided strong development momentum and valuable market opportunities for the full recovery of the world economy.

China's printing industry breaks through the shackles of the pandemic

Completing a new leap in transformation and upgrading from scale-and-speed-driven to quality-and-benefit-driven

The just-concluded "13th Five-Year Plan" period was both the decisive stage for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in China and a critical period for China's printing industry to transform and upgrade from scale-and-speed-driven to quality-and-benefit-driven.

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's printing industry basically kept pace with national economic development, the industrial structure was gradually optimized, green printing achieved remarkable results, the market environment became more mature, and the industry scale continued to expand. By the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China's printing industry had grown into a huge industry with nearly 100,000 above-scale printing enterprises, 2.58 million employees and an annual industry output value of 1.38 trillion yuan. Among these, packaging printing and new-type printing maintained relatively rapid development, and the volume of foreign processing trade in the printing industry grew steadily and continued to expand.

China's printing industry "14th Five-Year Plan" development goals are inspiring

The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a historic juncture linking China's "Two Centenary Goals", and also a critical period of leapfrog development for the high-quality development of China's printing industry.

China's "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the printing industry clearly states that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to continue to push China's printing industry to accelerate its development toward "green, digital, intelligent and integrated" development, promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, continue to raise the level of scale, intensification and specialization of China's printing industry, and achieve as soon as possible the important transformation from a large printing country to a strong printing country. It is expected that by the end of 2025, the total output value of China's printing industry will exceed 1.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.5% compared with the output value achieved under the "13th Five-Year Plan", maintaining its leading position as the world's second largest printing country.

Development trends of China's printing industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period

1. Publication printing will continue to maintain relatively stable development;
2. Packaging and decorative printing will continue to show relatively rapid growth momentum;
3. The proportion of high value-added printing products in the industry's output value will increase noticeably;
4. The average growth rate of China's printing industry will basically keep pace with the national economic growth rate; it is expected that the average annual growth rate of China's printing industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period will be around 5%;
5. Inkjet printing, intelligent equipment, LED-UV and EB electron beam curing processes, environmentally friendly cleaning agents and fountain solutions, vegetable-based inks and water-based inks will be promoted and popularized across the industry at an accelerating pace;
6. Digital technology, internet technology, information technology, automation technology and intelligent technology will penetrate widely into China's printing industry, becoming an important node and critical period for China's transformation and upgrading from a large printing country to a strong printing country;
7. Modern production methods and business models such as multi-format operations, supply chain operations, diversified operations, automated production lines, intelligent equipment and decentralized services will achieve new breakthroughs in innovative development and new results in high-quality development;
8. China's printing industry will make breakthrough progress in publication printing, VOCs source control and compliant emission technologies;
9. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the compliant emission of VOCs from packaging and decorative printing will continue to follow the policy of taking targeted measures by category, and be advanced actively, orderly and in depth;
10. In the future, the production and processing of packaging printed matter will continue to be an important engine driving the rapid growth of China's printing industry.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-378160.html