The 3rd Plenary Session of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party put forward the scientific development concept of “people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable†and emphasized that economic growth should be coordinated with population, resources, and environment. Economic development should be accompanied with environmental protection. Economic growth must be based on resources and Based on the carrying capacity of the ecological environment. This is a major strategic decision in the face of the world's three major crises of “population, resources, and the environment†and the growing environmental pollution in China and the deteriorating ecological environment. The scientific concept of development will also be an important basis for the government's future macro-control over the market, and it will be a historic symbol of China’s transformation from focusing solely on GDP, light environmental economic development, to people-oriented, and comprehensive economic and social development. Faced with the transformation of China's economic development mode, how should the packaging industry adapt? Under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, what new trends and directions will the packaging industry take? How should we deal with it, and what new countermeasures should we adopt? This article will discuss this issue. 1 Grades and questions Under the guidance of the "Reform and Development" banner, China's packaging industry has achieved world-renowned achievements after more than 20 years of struggle: China's packaging was basically zero from 1978, and it was built as a paper package, plastic package, metal package, and glass. Packaging, packaging materials, packaging machinery 6 modern industrial systems, packaging output value at an annual rate of 18% rapid growth, variety of specifications, it is expected that in 2005 the output value will reach 300 billion; in the national economy from the original 40 The last few among several industries have leapt to the 15th place, and the output of packaging industry products has even reached the top 5 in the world, making China a big packaging country in the world. The rapid development of the packaging industry has greatly reduced the loss of goods, increased the value of commodities, and made significant contributions to China's GDP growth, market prosperity, and foreign trade development. However, while the packaging industry is developing the material civilization of mankind, due to the extensive and unrestrained consumption of resources, it is, as with other industries, even more prominent, with serious negative effects. The main problems are: 1) A lot of resources are consumed. 80% of packaging industry products are used once and become waste after use. The product life cycle is much shorter than other industrial products. Moreover, the recycling rate of our country's packaging products is low, and the secondary utilization of resources is only 1/4 of that of industrialized countries.†1/3; In order to meet the market demand, the number of products is large, but due to the relatively backward technology and equipment, the waste of resources is also greater. Among the resources consumed, petroleum, quartz sand, and iron-aluminum ore are non-renewable resources. Pulp and pulp Wood is derived from forest resources that are very lacking in China. Therefore, the packaging industry is a typical resource-consuming industry. 2) The pollution environment is serious. According to statistics, packaging waste in industrial countries accounts for 1/3 of the weight of urban solid waste. With the development of economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, packaging waste is still increasing at a rate of 10% per year; especially The “white pollution†caused by non-degradable plastic packaging waste such as foam plastics, handbags, etc. has become a major public hazard. A nationwide public opinion poll by the US “Packaging†magazine in the 1990s showed that packaging waste has become the fourth largest pollution that affects public life after water pollution, marine pollution, and air pollution. 2 Developing new trends As a guiding ideology for economic development, the scientific concept of development can well suppress the negative effects of the packaging industry and give better play to its positive functions. It is expected that under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, the packaging industry will have the following new trends. 2.1 Circular economy will become the main mode of development Circular economy is a kind of economic growth model that takes the efficient use and recycling of resources as the core and low consumption, low emission and high efficiency as the basic characteristics, and is consistent with the concept of sustainable development. It is a “large-scale production, large-scale consumption, large-scale waste The fundamental transformation of the traditional resource-based economic growth model. The concept of circular economy requires a radical change in the tendency of re-development, light economy, heavy speed, and light economic efficiency, which emphasizes the development of a broader economy, lighter content development, and a focus on GDP and light environment. The new concept of circular economy was put forward by the Americans in the 1960s. It was soon taken seriously by industrialized countries. Germany and Japan successively formulated the "Recycling Economy Law" at the end of the last century to advance the circular economy with the rule of law. The international community has listed the circular economy and the knowledge economy (replacement of intellectual resources as an alternative to material resources and the realization of knowledge of economic activities) as two major trends in the development of the world economy. The recycling economy of the packaging industry will be reduced by packaging materials, clean packaging production, recycling of packaging resources, and efficient recycling of packaging waste. These are four major components, as shown in Figure 1. There are many recycling economies in the packaging industry. Advantages: In foreign countries, successful waste recycling systems such as the German DSD have been successfully implemented. The recycling of packaging waste from the United States, Britain and Japan has also formed an industry. The clean production of the packaging industry has many successful examples at home and abroad. Therefore, the packaging industry can fully implement the development of circular economy, and there are many mature experiences to learn from.The biggest obstacle for the implementation of circular economy in the packaging industry comes from the early stage of a technological transformation investment in the implementation of circular production, which is a small scale, poor environmental awareness, Only companies that wish to make products to make money are reluctant to do it, but under the pressure of the world's resources, environment, and population, under the objective control of China's scientific development concept, the National Development and Reform Commission has recently determined that the concept of circular economy is regarded as "China." The guiding ideology of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan puts the development of a recycling economy into In terms of physical planning and various types of planning, we will increase financial support for the development of circular economy, and at the same time that China will complete the circular economy laws and regulations system in 2010, the circular economy has become China’s various items including the packaging industry. The inevitable trend of industrial development, packaging companies should recognize the situation as soon as possible, take a step, make up their minds, invest in transformation, take the road of circular economy development, and seize the opportunity of the state to promote circular economy, and strive to obtain government-to-enterprise technology Only in this way can the packaging industry change its negative effects, make greater contributions to economic development and environmental protection, and at the same time, enterprises themselves can also benefit from the long-term reduction of production costs, responding to green barriers, and improving market competitiveness. A new round of development. (to be continued)