At present, the output value of China's food packaging machinery is about 30 billion yuan, while the annual import of food packaging machinery is about 1 billion US dollars. Food processing and packaging machinery manufacturing is an important industry that provides technical equipment for the food industry. In recent years, it has gradually developed into one of China's fastest-growing and most dynamic pillar industries in the national economy. However, due to the late start, lack of technical resources and other reasons, China's food processing and packaging machinery manufacturing technology innovation capability is very weak.

In the past 20 years, the food industry has promoted the development of food packaging machinery. The food processing industry, whose basic characteristics are a large number of transformed agricultural products, has been developing at an alarming rate. It has become one of the fastest growing industries in China's national economy. From the early 1980s to the present, the entire country The average annual growth rate of the food industry reaches 13% to 14%. The agricultural product processing industry first provided a broad space for development for the packaging industry. Any processed food can not be separated from packaging, including sales packaging and transport packaging. The first to benefit from this is packaging machinery.

China's food packaging machinery industry started in the early 1980s. Since its establishment, there are nearly 6,000 food and packaging machinery manufacturers in China, but about 2,000 of them are not stable enough. Nearly 15% of companies turn or close down each year. About the same number of new companies enter the industry. On the one hand, it illustrates the fierce competition in this industry. On the other hand, it shows the attractiveness and vitality of the industry, and everyone's preference for the future. In this industry, only a dozen or more companies have annual sales of more than 100 million yuan, and 50 companies have annual sales of more than 30 million yuan. 75% of the industry’s export products are produced by these 50 companies. This shows that large enterprises have a relatively high level of technology and production capacity, and they have an absolute advantage in market competition.

According to the prediction of authoritative experts, the current global demand for mechanical equipment is growing rapidly at an annual growth rate of 5.2%, and it is expected to reach 39.8 billion U.S. dollars by 2012. In the next few years, the sales volume of packaging equipment in developing countries will exceed that of Japan, the United States and other developed countries. In 2010, China’s demand for packaging machinery and equipment was approximately US$3.3 billion. According to the prediction of China Machinery Industry Federation, during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China's packaging machinery industry is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan in size, and the average annual growth rate will reach 16%.

The level of technology constrains the development of packaging machinery in China Nowadays, packaging machinery has become one of the top ten industries in China's machinery industry. China's food packaging machinery and equipment are not only on the scale, but are also accelerating the advancement of electro-opto-mechanical integration and automation. Great progress has been made in filling equipment, packaging equipment, and packaging material production equipment. However, the export value of packaging machinery in China is still less than 5% of the total output value, but the import amount is roughly the same as the total output value. This shows that China's demand for packaging machinery gap is very large, compared with foreign products, domestic packaging machinery, the gap between the level of science and technology is still relatively large, far from meeting domestic demand.

In addition, there are about 1,300 varieties of packaging machinery in China, lacking high-tech, high-precision, high-quality accessory products, low product performance, poor stability and reliability, short life span, rough surface treatment, and unattractive appearance. The technology of packaging machinery in China The overall level is about 20 years behind the advanced countries; from the perspective of the enterprise, there are few leading enterprises in the domestic packaging machinery industry, and there are not many companies with high technological level, large production scale, and product quality that meets international standards; from the perspective of scientific product development , Still basically remain in the test imitation stage, self-development ability is not strong, scientific research investment, funds account for only 1% of sales, while developed countries up to 8 to 10%.