Development Status of the National Printing Industry According to General Administration of Press and Publication statistics, as of April 30, 2008, our country have 102043 various types of printing enterprises, copy typing industry households 85262, two sums are 187305, 3.4867 million people employed, the printing gross value of industrial output surpasses 460 billion Yuan, accounting for 2.02% of gross domestic product, and has already completed ahead of schedule the printing industry "Eleventh Five-year" development plan to definite annual production of 440 billion Yuan of the development goals. The printing industry basically has kept the situation of healthy and steady development, has become an important industry sectors of the national economy.

6427 enterprises engaged in publications printing, accounting for 6.30% of total number of printing enterprises: 43096 enterprises engaged in packaging and decorating printed matters, accounting for 42.23% of total number of printing enterprises; 49211 enterprises engaged in other printed matter printing, accounting for 48.23% of total number of printing enterprises; 3263 enterprises engaged in special typesetting, plate making, binding business, accounting for 3.20% of total number of printing enterprises; 46 enterprises engaged in digital printing, accounts for 0.05% of total number of printing enterprises. There were 2394 foreign-funded printing enterprises, Among them, there were 945 Sino-foreign joint operate printing enterprises, 218 Chinese-foreign cooperative printing enterprise, 1231 Foreign-funded printing enterprises; 155 Publication printing enterprises ,2126 packaging and decorating printed matters enterprises, 113 other printed matter printing enterprises; Total investment reached $19.61 billion, registered capital reached $10.988 billion.

Also according to China prints and equipment Industrial association statistics, China (Mainland) printing industry gross output value achieved 475 billion Yuan, increase of 7.95% over the previous year; printing equipment output value achieve 16 billion Yuan, down 8.57% from last year; gross output value of printing equipment achieved 31.2 billion Yuan, grows 13.45% over previous year; The printing equipment imports aggregate amount $17.2987 billion, the export total amount is $9.8052 billion; Paper and paperboard production is 83.91 million tons; Import volume is 3.52 million tons, export volume is 4.12 million tons, apparent consumption is 83.31 million tons; Annual per capita consumption (calculated value) is 64 kg (figures quoted from "Paper Information" 2009 No. 3). Various domains of printing industry to total output value contribution as shown in below table.

Table: Various domains of printing industry to total output value contribution
Note: This table provided by the China Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Associat