The low-carbon economy that has attracted people's attention and is the most controversial nowadays has exerted tremendous influence on various layers of the Chinese economy. In the 11th Five-Year Plan, it was clearly stated that it is necessary to realize the domestic unit within the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period. The target of lowering the energy consumption of GDP by about 20% fully reflects China’s emphasis and planning on low-carbon economy. The so-called low-carbon economy in terms of its meaning, including new energy, energy-saving emission reduction, low-carbon technology upgrades, in order to achieve the purpose of sustainable development lifestyle and production methods. International attention has been paid to low-carbon economy. Many major countries in the world have raised the development of low-carbon economy to the country's development strategy. Our country has already proposed that carbon emissions in 2010 will fall by 40% to 45% compared with 2005.

What impact does the low-carbon economy have on our printing and packaging industry? First of all, we need to correctly understand what is low-carbon packaging. There are many concepts for understanding low-carbon packaging. First, we need to reduce the use of materials. When ensuring the functions of packaging protection, transportation, and sales, the first consideration should be to minimize the number of materials. The amount of use will minimize the damage to the environment. There will also be a reuse of the packaging materials. It is necessary to consider whether all or part of the packaging will be recycled after use. Reusing it will not cause environmental pollution and waste of resources.

The value of recycling of packaging materials is reflected in the following aspects: First, the used packaging is processed for recycling, and can be used and applied in different fields; Second, new value is obtained and recycled waste is obtained. The energy, or through the degradation of packaging to obtain new value; Third, save energy. Pay attention to energy conservation in all aspects of packaging and printing, and try to avoid waste of resources.

The main problem currently existing in China's packaging and printing industry is that most of the domestic packaging companies have large energy consumption, excessive emissions of solvents and gases, and large amounts of electricity. Compared with other industries, packaging printing is often referred to as large-scale electricity consumption. The average person in the enterprise accounts for about 4% to 6% of the sales, and the energy cost accounts for 20% to 30% of the equipment processing fee.

For printing companies to focus on a low-carbon economy, it is not only a matter of pursuing a responsibility for environmental protection. It is also related to the speed, quality of printed matter, the qualified rate of printed matter, and the production process of an important low-carbon economy. In particular, we should achieve a win-win relationship between environmental protection and the quality of print products in terms of the residual solvent content and the ability to purify emissions and the use of ink and printing equipment.

Under the low-carbon economy, both packaging and printing companies and packaging and printing equipment manufacturing enterprises face opportunities and challenges in their development. Under the pressure of energy and the environment, low-carbon packaging and printing industry is an integrated and restructured supply for downstream companies. Chain of opportunities to achieve common economic and environmental benefits.