The 30 years of reform and opening up witnessed the rapid development of China's packaging industry. Through 30 years of development, China's packaging industry has scored brilliant achievements and China has become a nation of large-scale packaging industry. The accomplishments are the result of the intimate care from the party and state leaders and also come from the hard work of all the packaging industry personnel. The purpose of the review of china's packaging industry development in 30 years is to provide experience for future reference as China's packaging industry takes the undertakings to become a great power in this area from a nation simply with a large-scale packaging industry.