Packaging disciplines are characterized as comprehensive and cross-disciplinary. The feasibility as an independent discipline has been demonstrated. However, packaging has not yet formed into an independent discipline in our country. In terms of current development of China’s packaging, the developments of packaging discipline in five aspects were summarized as the definition, the basis, the curriculum system, the connotation and the talent cultivation of packaging discipline, while the necessity of forming packaging into an independent discipline was pointed out in order to achieve the corresponding status in the“subject directory”.