In recent years, the production and sales volume of China's paper industry has been increasing, but the growth rate has declined overall. In 2017, affected by factors such as the stabilization of the macro economy and the rapid development of the logistics industry, the growth rate of paper and cardboard output increased significantly, and the industry's operating income and profitability rebounded, but overall demand growth remained weak. In 2018, the production and consumption of the domestic pulp and paper and paper products industry will continue until 2017. The total output and consumption will continue to increase, and the overall industrial production and operation will continue to remain stable.

From the perspective of supply, with the continuous expansion of paper and paperboard production capacity, the output of paper and paperboard nationwide is generally on the rise. During the period of 2012-2016, due to the decline in economic growth, the downstream demand growth of the paper industry slowed down, and there was more excess capacity.

Since 2017, due to factors such as the stabilization of the macro economy and the rapid development of the logistics industry, the demand for major paper types has increased significantly. However, due to environmental protection policies, production restrictions in the paper industry have been relatively serious, making major paper types such as packaging paper in short supply. , The prosperity of the paper industry has picked up.

At present, the domestic packaging industry has gradually strengthened its integration, environmental protection policies have become more stringent, and raw material price increases have made the threshold of the paper packaging industry higher and higher. At the same time, in the context of consumer upgrades, the demand for packaging's original protective functions has weakened. Personalized needs such as brand building are accelerating the upgrade of packaging, and boutique packaging has ushered in a golden period of development. The environmental protection tax of small manufacturers in the paper packaging industry will increase sharply. Leading enterprises have more mature environmental protection measures, and have a large scale effect. The increase in taxes and fees is limited. This will enhance the competitive advantage of large paper packaging companies and help the market gather to industry leaders.

Corrugated cardboard boxes for transportation packaging, color boxes and gift boxes for sales packaging, product descriptions and branding brochures, stickers, etc. all occupy a high proportion in consumer electronics packaging products. The booming consumer electronics industry has promoted the development of the paper packaging industry.

China's packaging industry is an emerging industry developed under the conditions of reform and opening up and vigorously developing the commodity economy. It took us 40 years to basically build a modern packaging industry system. In 2016, the total output value of the national packaging industry exceeded the 1.9 trillion mark, achieving a historic leap in the packaging industry. As the paper packaging industry, we are facing a complex new environment and a difficult and arduous domestic reform, development and stability of the new normal. The industry as a whole has maintained a momentum of healthy and sustainable development.

According to the statistics of 2,400 enterprises above the designated size in the paper packaging industry in China, in 2017, the country's total output of boxboard was 10.9528 million tons, an increase of 3.83% year-on-year. 12.14%;

18.474 million tons in Anhui Province, accounting for 16.87%, a year-on-year increase of 19.66%;

14.525 million tons in Zhejiang Province, accounting for 13.26%, a year-on-year increase of -1.36%;

1.276 million tons in Shandong Province, accounting for 11.65%, a year-on-year increase of -2.04%;

Hebei Province has 1.169 million tons, accounting for 10.67%, a year-on-year increase of -6.51%.

In 2017, the country's total output of paper products was 71,920,800 tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.06%. The top five regions in terms of output were 10.7891 million tons in Guangdong Province, accounting for 15.01%, a year-on-year increase of 10.46%;

79.943 million tons in Zhejiang Province, accounting for 11.12%, a year-on-year increase of 4.41%;

Henan Province has 7.284 million tons, accounting for 10.08%, and a year-on-year increase of 2.02%;

6.0656 million tons in Jiangsu Province, accounting for 8.44%, a year-on-year increase of 5.96%;

Fujian Province has 4,255,200 tons, accounting for 5.92%, an increase of 4.75% year-on-year.

Among them, the output of corrugated cardboard boxes was 40.257 million tons, an increase of 0.11% year-on-year. The top five regions in terms of output were 5.235 million tons in Zhejiang Province, accounting for 13%, an increase of 4.13% year-on-year;

Henan Province has 4.8123 million tons, accounting for 11.95%, a year-on-year increase of 0.72%;

3.515 million tons in Jiangsu Province, accounting for 8.73%, a year-on-year increase of 6.59%;

3.354 million tons in Guangdong Province, accounting for 8.33%, a year-on-year increase of 1.03%;

Hebei Province has 2.232 million tons, accounting for 5.77%, a year-on-year increase of -4.05%.

In 2017, the national paper and cardboard container industry enterprises above the designated size achieved main business income of 337.605 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.94%, an increase of 0.72 percentage points over the same period in 2015.

In 2017, the national paper and cardboard container manufacturing industry realized a profit of 19.321 billion yuan, a growth rate of 2.07 percentage points lower than in 2015, creating a new normal for the development of China's paper packaging industry.