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Editor's note: Approved by the State Council, a new Tariff Schedule will take effect from 2010, adjusting interim rates and lowering import tariffs. It cancels the interim tax rates on two tariff codes — thermal print heads and contact image sensors — and restores most-favored-nation rates, among other features. Looking at the new 2010 import and export Tariff Schedule, we can see that, compared with the 2009 import and export Tariff Schedule, the new schedule concerning printing equipment imports and exports — printing equipment import tariff lines (58 in total

ppzhan News: To strengthen the management of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Guangdong Province, improve regional atmospheric environmental quality, strengthen the control and management of volatile organic compound emissions in the packaging and printing industry, and promote advances in processes and pollution treatment technologies in the packaging and printing industry, the Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, South China University of Technology, the Guangdong Printing and Replication Industry Association and other units jointly

ppzhan News: With the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, sideline production and fishery, packaging machinery repair work is both large in volume and wide in scope, and the task has become more onerous. In order to establish a packaging machinery repair system and strengthen the management of repair services, these Measures are hereby formulated. Article 1 A packaging machinery repair outlet refers to a packaging machinery repair operating unit in any of various forms — state-owned, collective (cooperative) or individual — whose main business is the repair of agricultural, animal husbandry and fishery machinery. Article 2 Service outlets applying to engage in packaging machinery repair must be approved by the local agricultural machinery

ppzhan News: "SIG Combibloc launches China's first beverage carton packaging bearing the FSC certification mark," "Tetra Pak China to launch FSC-certified paper packaging," "Mengniu to introduce new FSC forest-certified packaging materials," "Jielong Art Printing Company kicks off FSC certification," "Hunan Tianwen Xinhua Printing Co. kicks off FSC certification"… In the first half of this year, as the Shanghai World Expo promoted concepts such as green, environmental protection and low carbon, the printing and packaging industry began

ppzhan News: The General Administration of Press and Publication is organizing the formulation of the 12th Five-Year development plan for the printing industry. The overall goal is: by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period, major progress will be made in the transformation from a large printing country to a strong printing country, and efforts will be made to realize the goal of becoming a strong country ahead of schedule within the press and publication industry. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the growth rate of China's total printing industry output value will basically keep pace with national economic development. Establish and improve national printing demonstration bases and cultivate a number of competitive printing enterprises

ppzhan News: At present, the definitions involved in standardization building include: standards, specifications and methods. "Standards" are relatively widely applied and undergo the assessment and accreditation procedures of a certain management body (such as ISO); "specifications" are detailed descriptions designed as standards for a particular job; "methods", meanwhile, are the approach, technique or procedure for a certain thing or for carrying it out. In the printing industry, ISO12467 is an industry standard; GRACoL and SWO

ppzhan News: Citing Feng Fei, director of the Industrial Economics Research Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council of China, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period China's economy is both in a golden period of development and a period of prominent contradictions. In this period, the contradiction between heavy chemical industry and the low-carbon economy will become more acute; at the same time, the acceleration of urbanization will also drive further adjustment of the industrial structure. The printing industry likewise faces numerous contradictions during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, and a favorable development environment and the weak reform momentum of printing enterprises will be the

ppzhan News: The General Administration of Press and Publication is organizing the formulation of the 12th Five-Year Development Plan for the printing industry. The overall goal is: by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period, major progress shall be made in the transformation from a major printing country into a printing power, and efforts shall be made to realize the goal of becoming a strong power ahead of schedule within the press and publication industry. To transform from a major printing country into a printing power, green printing is very important, but digital printing must not be neglected even more, and the two will become the keywords for the future development of China's printing industry. From China's development over the past two years

ppzhan News: On July 20, 2010, an employee at a packaging company in Laiyang, Yantai, Shandong, had his arm accidentally caught in a paper cutter; on August 15, a worker at a bag factory in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian, had his hand "eaten" by a printing press after a mistake; on October 9, a man at a carton plant in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang, had his left arm "bitten" by a water-based ink printing and slotting machine… Over the past three months, the media has reported several accidents in which printing presses "bit" hands. Such as printing presses

ppzhan News: The Standardization Administration of China recently issued a notice on the approval and release of national standards (No. 6 of 2010) on its website, approving and releasing 264 national standards, including 17 packaging industry standards. Of these 17 packaging industry standards, 9 are newly formulated and 8 are revisions. One is a mandatory standard ("Cement Packaging Bag"), effective July 1 next year; 16 are recommended standards, effective March 1 next year. These 16 recommended