China Printing Industry Market Forecast and Investment Strategy Report, 2013-2017

Printing industry is with a long history and many industry segmentations like publishing, packing, paper products, plastics and electronics, etc. It is widely used in many fields of national economic and living. Nowadays, along with the development of society and social life, printing industry develops into an industry economic system which is knowledge-based, information-based and international-competition-influencing.

Currently, there are three major industry regions of printing industry in China: the Pearl River Delta printing region which is centered on Guangdong, the Yangtze River Delta printing region which is centered on Shanghai, Suzhou and Zhejiang, and the Circum-Bohai-Sea printing industry region which is centered on Beijing and Tianjin. All the industry clusters greatly promote the development of printing industry in China. According to the statistics from State Statistics Bureau, there are 6,399 scale printing corporations with a total asset of 29.6491 billion Yuan in 2010; the total industrial output value is 29.8816 billion Yuan which with year-on-year growth of 21.74%; the sales revenue is 29.2262 billion Yuan which with year-on-year growth of 24.13%; total profit is 2.2187 billion Yuan which with a year-on-year growth of 28.25%.

In 2011, the General Administration of Press and Publication issued Development Planning of Printing Industry during the “Twelfth Five Years”. The document points out that by the end of the “twelfth five years” China will finish the transformation of printing big country into printing strong country and become the second printing big country in the world. Thus the printing industry will with a predicted total output value of more than 110 billion Yuan. The upgrade will focuses on industry distribution optimization, technology innovation promotion, industry environmental protection transformation and upgrading management service perfection. Following the development of printing technology and penetration of environmental awareness, the digital printing and environmental protection printing become key printings for China printing industry in the future. As of 2020, digital printing will takes up 50% of the global printings and become the major driving force for printing industry. By the end of the “twelfth five years”, proportion of digital printing production to total printing output value will be more than 20%, while proportion of environmental protection printing corporations to China printing corporations will be about 30%. Guiding by the “environmental protection printing”, “industrial parks strategy” and “projects strategy”, the printing industry is faced with tremendous development opportunities.

This report is based on the market demand of up-stream/down-stream printing industries and market production and sales of international market and markets of domestic regions, thus to detailed analyze the market status, industry scale, import and export status, prospect forecast and investment value and direction. It emphasizes the development of three major sub-industries and three major industrial regions and details the development of gravure printing, packaging, printing, digital printing, flexo printing, publications printing, 3D printing, label printing, screen printing, offset printing and paper printing. What’s more, it has an in-depth analysis of domestic major corporations’ operational status with the help of combining data, charts and brief accurate words together. This report underlines analyzing the industry market supply, price changing, production capability, sales amount and profit. It further analyze and forecast the post-market and with a high value for operators.

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Printing Industry