According to a market research report titled 2022-2028 Global and Chinese Paper Products Market Status and Future Development Trend released by Jane Le Shangbo, paper industry, as an important basic raw material industry, occupies an important position in the national economy. Paper industry is related to all aspects of the country's economy, culture, production and national defense. Its products are used in many fields of culture, education, science and technology and the national economy. With the economic recovery, paper demand in all walks of life will rise.
This week, the corrugated cardboard market was relatively stable. The Mid Autumn orders entered the closing stage, and the downstream purchasing mentality turned to wait-and-see, and replenishment was mainly based on demand. With the shutdown and maintenance of Jiulong, Shanying, Liwen and other large factories, the base paper output may continue to decline significantly in September, which will help alleviate the current market oversupply situation.
With the increasing awareness of innovation, paper and paperboard products will not only appear directly in life in traditional forms, but also can exist as functional materials, such as decorative paper used for composite wood flooring in the building materials industry, aramid honeycomb paper used for high-speed rail, filter paper used for cars and air purifiers, etc. In the future, the application fields of the products in the paper industry will be more extensive and the product types will be more abundant.
The paper industry is accelerating its technological progress and continuing to develop towards a modern large industry with high efficiency, high quality, high efficiency, low consumption, low pollution and low emissions. It shows the outstanding characteristics of enterprise scale, technology integration, product functionality, cleaner production, resource conservation, environmental protection and low-carbon, forestry and paper integration, management informatization and industrial globalization, as well as green development.
From January to July, the total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide reached 4892.95 billion, down 1.1% year on year (calculated on a comparable basis). The total profit of paper making and paper products industry was 28.72 billion yuan, down 45.6% year on year, and that of printing and recording media reproduction industry was 20.27 billion yuan, down 6.2% year on year.
The data shows that in August, the PMI of manufacturing industry was 49.4%, 0.4 percentage points higher than that of the previous month, and the PMI of non manufacturing industry was 52.6%. Some key industries maintained expansion.
China's paper and paperboard production is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other eastern coastal provinces. According to the enterprise survey data, Zhejiang has more than 20000 papermaking related enterprises, ranking first, and Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian and Shandong rank second to fifth. According to the statistics of China Paper Association, the production of paper and paperboard in Guangdong, Shandong and Zhejiang accounted for 17.31%, 16.99% and 13.27% of the total national output respectively.
With the promotion of environmental protection measures and supply side reform, the phased and structural surplus of the paper industry will be significantly improved, and the supply structure will continue to be optimized. In the future, the supply and demand of the papermaking industry will be tightened.
The position of the global paper packaging industry has become increasingly prominent, becoming an important paper product packaging supply country in the world, and the export scale has been expanding.
The data shows that the export scale of China's paper packaging industry has increased from US $4.385 billion in 2016 to US $6.613 billion in 2020, and the import scale has increased from US $4.549 billion in 2016 to US $6.76 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 10.41% and 10.82% respectively. Analysts predict that the export scale of China's paper packaging industry will reach US $7.944 billion and the import scale will reach US $8.087 billion in 2022.