In recent years, the overall development trend of China's food equipment and packaging machinery industry has been good, and the average growth rate of the industry is higher than the overall growth rate of the national machinery industry. a greater improvement. However, the industry still has development bottlenecks such as low-end overcapacity, weak high-end core technology R&D and independent innovation capabilities, and insufficient supply of high-level complete sets of equipment. Industry insiders suggest that smart packaging equipment should be vigorously developed to enhance the overall competitiveness of the packaging machinery industry. At the same time, with the rapid development of my country's packaging machinery industry, it will become a trend for domestic food packaging machinery to replace imports.
import substitution effect of packaging machinery is beginning to appear
After more than 20 years of development, my country's packaging machinery has become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry, providing a strong guarantee for the rapid development of the packaging industry. The "Fourteenth Five-Year Development Plan of China's Food and Packaging Machinery Industry" shows that the total output value of enterprises above designated size in my country's food and packaging machinery industry will reach 150 billion yuan in 2025, with an average annual compound growth rate of about 8%, and the export volume will be around 8%. It will reach 12 billion US dollars in 2025, and the international competitiveness will be significantly improved.
The rapid development of packaging machinery has benefited from the rapid growth of my country's macro economy in the past ten years. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, my country's GDP will reach 114.9 trillion yuan, a growth rate of 8.4% over the previous year. It has become one of the centers that promote global economic growth and is also one of the largest consumer markets in the world.
The healthy, stable and rapid development of the macro-economy as a whole, as well as a number of industrial adjustment and revitalization development plans promulgated by the state, have enabled most industries in the national economy to achieve steady growth. The rapid development of many downstream industries, including tea and other industries, has driven the rapid growth of my country's packaging machinery industry.
As my country's position and role in the global economic structure become increasingly prominent, these downstream industries will continue to drive the packaging machinery industry to achieve greater development in terms of business model, product structure, technology research and development, and manufacturing in the future. The packaging machinery industry provides a broader market space.
In the early stage of development, there is a big gap between my country's packaging machinery industry and developed countries in terms of research and development, design, production and technology. Packaging equipment companies represented by Germany's Krones and Germany's Bosch have occupied a leading position in the world's packaging machinery market by providing large-scale, complete sets of high-precision stand-alone equipment and intelligent packaging production lines, and also occupy a leading position in my country's high-end packaging equipment market. main share.
In recent years, driven by the support of national industrial policies and the good situation of downstream industries, some enterprises have gradually improved their product categories through independent innovation, introduction and absorption of foreign advanced technology, and their technical level has been greatly improved. At present, the overall technical level of my country's packaging machinery industry has reached the international advanced level, and some technologies have reached the international advanced level.
The improvement of domestic packaging machinery technology has enhanced the international competitiveness of domestic packaging machinery and equipment, created conditions for the export of packaging machinery and equipment in my country, and changed the long-term dependence on imports of high-end packaging equipment in China. Manufacturing power exports. The data shows that from January to October 2022, the number of imported packaging machinery in China was 44,551 units, a decrease of 31,137 units compared with the same period in 2021, a year-on-year decrease of 39.3%; The US dollar fell by 8.8% year-on-year, and the import substitution effect began to appear.
With the advantages of controlling manufacturing costs, localized services, and logistics, domestic equipment will gradually narrow the gap with internationally renowned companies, and domestic food packaging machinery will become a trend to replace imports.
