The output value of the industry continues to expand

I. Basic information

China's printing industry has a long history and many internal subdivisions, involving the publishing industry, packaging industry, paper products industry, plastics industry, electronics industry, etc., and its products are used in various fields of national economic life. With the development of society and the progress of social life, the printing industry continues to grow and improve the industrial system. China's printing industry has initially formed the Pearl River Delta with Guangdong as the center, the Yangtze River Delta with Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang as the center and the Bohai Sea with Beijing and Tianjin as the center. The emergence of printing industry clusters has greatly promoted the development of China's printing industry. The main business of the printing industry is paper packaging printing business and plastic flexible packaging printing business. The raw materials of paper packaging printing business are mainly base paper, ink and plastic film and film products. Among them, the base paper mainly includes white cardboard, white board paper, cow cardboard, corrugated paper and kraft paper. The raw materials of plastic flexible packaging printing business are mainly plastic rice grains and ink. Printed products can be classified into color boxes, paper boxes, cartons, plastic flexible packaging, paper bags and so on. At present, packaging and printing widely serve various industries in the national economy and life, such as food and beverage, daily chemical, electronic communications, tobacco, medicine, clothing and other fields.

2. Upstream analysis

Ink is an important upstream raw material for printing industry. In the past two years, China's ink market demand has grown rapidly, and production has shown a rising trend, ranking at the forefront of the world. In 2022, China's ink production reached 880,000 tons. At the same time, with the continuous development of science and technology, China's printing ink industry in order to meet the needs of packaging and publishing printing, relying on the progress of science and technology, constantly develop new products and replace old products.

Printing equipment is an important equipment of the printing industry and the material basis for the development of the printing industry, which serves the development of the printing industry and promotes the development of the printing industry through its own development. Since 2012, China's printing equipment industry in accelerating the introduction of foreign advanced technology at the same time, but also continue to increase research and development innovation efforts, making some product areas close to the international advanced level, domestic printing equipment in the international market influence gradually increased, export scale continues to expand. In 2022, China's printing equipment exports amounted to 1.873 billion US dollars, and imports and exports amounted to 1.708 billion US dollars, successfully transforming the trade deficit into a trade surplus.

In recent years, the production of machine-made paper and paperboard in China has shown an increasing trend. In 2020, the production of machine-made paper and cardboard in China will be 127 million tons, and the output will rise to 137 million tons in 2022.

Related report: "2023-2029 China Printing Industry Market Competition Situation and Development Scale Forecast Report" issued by Zhiyan Consulting

3. Midstream analysis

At present, printing has become an important part of the national economic system, with an annual output value of more than one trillion yuan, ranking second in the world. In recent years, the total output value of China's printing industry has shown a rising trend, the total output value of China's printing industry in 2019 was 1.3 trillion yuan, the output value of China's printing industry in 2021 reached 1.38 trillion yuan, and the output value will further expand to 1.42 trillion yuan in 2022.

At present, the printing market has developed a variety of printing methods, of which offset printing has become the main printing method of China's printing market, the market share of about 55%, gravure, flexo printing, letterpress market share of about 21%, 9%, 7%, digital printing and screen printing methods accounted for a relatively small proportion.

4. Downstream analysis

Paper product packaging is one of the most important application scenarios in printing industry. In recent years, China's paper products packaging industry has maintained a steady development trend, the number of enterprises above scale has been growing, and the industry income scale and profit level have remained stable. In 2022, the market size of China's paper products packaging industry reached 331.5 billion.

The plastic packaging industry is also an important application scenario in the printing industry. In recent years, the overall stable development of China's economy and the gradual improvement of residents' consumption level are conducive to the growth of downstream demand for domestic plastic packaging industry. Due to the multiple functions of protecting goods, facilitating circulation, facilitating consumption, promoting sales and enhancing added value, packaging products have been more and more widely used in modern society and have become an indispensable part of commodity circulation. In 2022, the market size of China's plastic packaging industry reached 483 billion.

Publishing was one of the earliest applications of printing. In recent years, the market scale of China's publishing industry continues to expand, which provides a good development environment for the printing industry. By 2022, the market size of China's publishing industry will reach 22 billion.