Four Chinese cities bidding to become Asian packaging centre
of an Asian packaging centre in response to the World Packaging
Organisation's invitation to establish a regional centre in China.
A total of four Chinese cities have applied to be the future home of an Asian packaging centre in response to the World Packaging Organisation's invitation to establish a regional centre in China.
According to a Xinhua report, experts with the WPO are currently making field investigations in the four applicant cities, which included Shanghai, currently China's leading industrial centre, Zhongshan in south China's Guangdong province, Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province and Jiangyin in east China's Jiangsu province.
In recent years the packaging industry has mushroomed in China and there are currently estimated to be around 20,000 packaging enterprises which employ a total of 3 million workers. The annual industrial output value of the packaging sector tops 230 billion yuan (€25.5bn).
As the birthplace of China's packaging industry, Shanghai yielded an output of 20.4 billion yuan from the industry in 2001, ranking first in China.
The setting up of a regional centre in China aims to establish a center in Asia for the packaging industry's development, manufacturing, trade and information exchanges.
WPO experts will evaluate the economic growth, packaging development, working environment and infrastructure facilities of the four cities before choosing the overall winner.
