China Packaging Federation Launches E-Commerce Committee in Jinhua; Zhejiang Packaging Association President Lin Hua Delivers Congratulatory Address

At the founding conference of the E-Commerce Committee of the China Packaging Federation, Lin Hua, President of the Zhejiang Provincial Packaging Technology Association, gave a congratulatory speech on behalf of provincial and municipal packaging associations.

He began by congratulating the Committee on its official establishment and welcoming packaging industry peers who had traveled from afar.

Lin Hua pointed out that Zhejiang’s internet economy is expanding strongly. The province is one of China’s most concentrated e-commerce hubs and is home to the world’s largest e-commerce trading platform. It has more than one million online stores, over 50 e-commerce industrial parks and more than three million market entities. In 2013, Zhejiang’s e-commerce transactions exceeded RMB 1.6 trillion, roughly one-sixth of mainland China’s total. With internet finance innovation and an increasingly complete e-commerce supply chain, the internet economy is gradually becoming a driving force for Zhejiang’s transformation and a major hub for structural adjustment.

In his view, packaging is a representative traditional industry in China, holds an important place in the economic system, and remains a key lifeline for Zhejiang’s development. As the country promotes industrial-information integration and the internet economy grows rapidly, traditional packaging must address transformation and upgrading. After China’s first “Internet Economy Development Bureau” was created, the Ministry of Commerce designated Jinhua as one of the first “National E-commerce Demonstration Bases.” Jinhua is also a key opening-up window for central Zhejiang, and the Jinhua Development Zone has begun building the “Central Zhejiang Internet Economy Center.” Lin Hua said the China Packaging Federation saw Jinhua’s dynamic internet economy and decided to seize the opportunity by placing the E-Commerce Committee there.

Lin Hua stated that the Committee’s creation gives traditional packaging enterprises a platform for transformation and upgrading. As an important body serving the packaging sector and helping traditional companies apply e-commerce, the Committee carries major responsibility. The Zhejiang Packaging Technology Association will act as a strategic partner and form a “fraternal alliance” with the Committee, deepening collaboration in application promotion, industry communication, academic discussion, and product R&D to advance packaging industry upgrading.

He added that soon after the Committee’s establishment was approved, the Zhejiang Packaging Technology Association and China Packaging Network jointly set up the Zhejiang Packaging Industry E-commerce Training Center. This was the association’s first step in promoting e-commerce adoption and helping enterprises transform. The center will address the packaging industry’s industrial-information integration needs, focus on training practical e-commerce talent and corporate e-commerce managers, offer relevant programs and courses, and help improve Zhejiang’s e-commerce talent system.

Looking ahead, Lin Hua said the provincial association will fully support the Committee’s follow-up work. He hopes the Committee will help traditional packaging companies escape transformation difficulties, guide them into the e-commerce wave, and drive healthier and faster growth for the packaging economy.

Source: reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn); original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-377354.html