Catastrophe progression method has been introduced to evaluate the growth of small and medium-sized packaging enterprises. 44 small and medium-sized packaging enterprises have been selected to evaluate the growth of China's industrial enterprise database from 2009 to 2012, with the growth of China,s small and medium-sized packaging enterprises ranked according to the evaluation scores. The results show that the growth of the packaging SMEs in China is characterized with an apparent polarization, with most of the top growing small and medium-sized packaging enterprises concentrated in Zhejiang and Guangdong province, while in general, the growth of small and medium-sized packaging enterprises is generally not high.