Packaging Education Reform (I)

1 Introduction Modern packaging has comprehensive functions such as effective protection of goods, convenient storage and transportation, and sales promotion. The goods are packaged to show their individuality and style. Economically developed countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan attach great importance to commodity packaging, and packaging education has also developed rapidly. Since the 1980s, China has actively learnt from the experiences of developed countries, such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, in training packaging engineering talents, and has explored a multi-level and multi-form packaging education system that is suitable for China's higher education system. Nurturing a large number of packaging and technological talents has basically eased the urgent needs of the packaging industry for packaging technology talents. At the same time, China's packaging industry grows at an average annual rate of 15%, which is higher than the growth rate of 40 major industries in the national economy. It has already ranked 14th, effectively promoting the accumulation of social material wealth and spiritual wealth, and is known as a powerful one. The sunrise industry of vitality.
Looking back to the twentieth century, China’s packaging education has gone through a difficult process and has also achieved fruitful results. The start of educational projects in the new century has brought higher opportunities and more severe challenges to higher education. In the face of fierce education competition, packaging education should base itself on the characteristics and direction of development of the packaging industry and persist in providing intellectual resources for the packaging industry. The fundamental purpose is to actively promote professional construction and cultivate complex talents suitable for the development needs of modern packaging industry.
2 Characteristics and Development Direction of China's Packaging Industry 2.1 Overview of the Development of China's Packaging Industry After the Second World War, the packaging industry developed rapidly in the United States, Germany, Japan and other economically developed countries. Since the 1980s, China's packaging industry has also made considerable progress. Table 1 is an overview of its development. Now, China’s packaging industry has changed the status of “first-class products, second-class packaging, and third-class prices” in the past. The economic benefits of depreciation, efficiency gains, and savings that have been achieved through packaging improvements each year are about 5 billion yuan, and bear 3 The trillions of billions of yuan in industrial and agricultural products and more than 1,000 billion U.S. dollars worth of export goods have played an important supporting role in the development of the national economy for industrial and agricultural products, light industrial products, food, beverages, and mechanical and electrical products.
Table 1 Development of Packaging Industry in China

Annual output value in years (100 million yuan)
1980 72 (0.8%) 34 2556 homes (above the county level)
1998 1840
1999 2200 (More than 2%) 14 More than 100,000 homes grow at an average annual rate of over 15%

2.2 Characteristics and Development Direction of China's Packaging Industry The characteristics and development direction of China's packaging industry are mainly reflected in the following four aspects:
(1) Larger scale, relatively complete categories and varieties. The packaging industry mainly covers the following six areas:
· Paper product packaging, such as paper boxes, cartons, paper bags, paper cups, paper cans;
· Flexible packaging, such as plastic, plastic/plastic, paper/plastic, paper/plastic/aluminium foil;
· Metal container packaging, such as metal cans, barrels, hoses;
· Glass containers for graves, such as bottles and cans;
Plastic packaging, such as PET bottles, foam cushioning packaging materials;
• Collection packaging, such as wooden boxes, pallets, containers, container bags, etc. (To be continued)