It is a national strategy for the development of packaging industry to transform into a powerful instead of a big nation of packaging industry. By selecting quantifiable indicators from three dimensions of scale development, innovative development and green development, an international comparative analysis was made between China and the main packaging powers through discussing the gap, and exploring the specific path of China’s packaging power construction. It was found that the gap between our country and other packaging powers existed in the disadvantage in terms of international classification of packaging machinery industry scale, the lower investment of R&D in innovative development and the higher energy consumption per GDP on the way of green development. Therefore, it was suggested that measures be taken in supporting the packaging machinery industry development to consolidate the advantage in scale development, making efforts to promote industrial R&D investment and encourage self-innovation, building complete development of circulation industry system to accelerate the green development, establishing and improving the statistical system to evaluate the packaging industry and consummate the construction of packaging power in China.