Intelligent packaging has become a new development direction of modern packaging industry in China. In recent years, many packaging enterprises have been strategically entering into intelligent packaging sector by not only increasing R&D investment, but also constantly introducing new intelligent packaging products and innovative service mode in the market application. From the overall technical scheme of building intelligent packaging system, intelligent packaging includes four key issues: the structure of intelligent packaging system, the technology of packaging digitalization, the technology of packaging visualization and the cloud platform of intelligent packaging（the big data platform）. Intelligent packaging has greatly extended the functions of packaging in product protection, service and information processing and become a carrier for integrating various innovative approaches to playing an important role in anti-counterfeiting, traceability, food and drug safety, modern logistics and supply chain innovation, and intelligent packaging in new retail, with great prospect in market application.