As an engineer and sales in China, I would like to provide some assessment on the packaging equipment here. China's packaging machinery started relatively late. In the 1950s, China could only produce packaging equipment with a relatively low technological level. After the reform and opening up in 1978, with the rapid development of the national economy, the domestic demand for packaging equipment increased significantly, which greatly promoted the development of China's packaging machinery industry. According to recent surveys, China's packaging equipment is developing at an annual rate of 8%, making it one of the fastest-growing sectors in China's machinery industry.
Initially, most of China's packaging equipment relied on imports from countries such as the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, and others, which remain the main manufacturing countries in the global packaging equipment market. Although China has now closely followed these countries in terms of market share, its share of high-end packaging equipment is not high, and many high-end packaging equipment still needs to be imported. Recent surveys have shown that China imports packaging equipment worth about $100 million per month, with an average price of approximately $37,000 to $38,000. At the same time, China exports packaging equipment worth about $300 million per month, but the average export price is only $200.
Chinese machinery equipment has won favor in some mid- to low-end markets due to its price advantage, but it has also left behind a somewhat unfavorable reputation in the international market. However, this is an inevitable process in the development of China's machinery equipment industry. China has cultivated a large number of engineering and technical personnel who are gradually entering the machinery equipment manufacturing industry. The development of education will gradually unleash the potential of these talents, and some excellent technical personnel are constantly improving the design and production of equipment through professional knowledge. As a result, the market will gradually see the emergence of some high-quality machinery equipment. However, many of these stable quality machinery equipment are not widely recognized, and market competition has also led many machinery equipment manufacturers to face survival challenges.
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