As a special commodity, medicines adhere to the principle of curing diseases and saving people to protect human health and safety. Therefore, the supervision of pharmaceutical packaging materials should be more stringent. The main function of pharmaceutical packaging is to ensure the quality characteristics and composition stability of medicines. The materials used mainly include glass, plastic, rubber, metal, ceramics, paper and other materials. Drugs can only enter the circulation market with pharmaceutical packaging as a carrier. The development trend of my country's pharmaceutical industry is good, driving the continuous growth of my country's pharmaceutical packaging market demand. After a long period of continuous development, the awareness of the importance of packaging in my country's pharmaceutical industry has continued to increase, and the government's support for the medical and health industry has continued to increase.

Medical packaging materials include: used to package pharmaceuticals or used to package medical device simulation packaging materials: packaging materials that can be taken, contact pharmaceuticals or used as functional (such as moisture-proof, barrier, etc.) outer packaging and many more. Due to the development of polymer materials, plastic packaging materials occupy an increasingly important position in medical packaging materials. Among them, pharmaceutical packaging materials can be taken; such packaging materials are mainly capsules, microcapsules and auxiliary materials.

2020 China Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials Industry Development Status and Market Prospect Scale Analysis

As far as pharmaceutical packaging is concerned, it is mainly divided into primary and secondary packaging, where primary packaging refers to the packaging that contains, seals, or is used for dosage applications and in direct contact with them. Secondary packaging refers to all other non-contact packaging, generally including printed or unprinted cartons, labels, instructions or inserts (additional pages), wrapping, etc. Medical carton packaging is the most widely used secondary pharmaceutical packaging. Today's pharmaceutical packaging carton is no longer a simple pharmaceutical packaging product, but has carried more and more value and auxiliary functions.

In recent years, with the advancement of the new medical reform, the expenditure on health expenses has increased substantially, and the expenditure on medicines is the main component of health expenses. This in turn promotes the expansion of demand in the pharmaceutical packaging industry. my country's pharmaceutical packaging material industry is currently in a stage of rapid expansion, and its proportion in the national industry has gradually increased, but the growth rate has slowed down slightly.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, domestic pharmaceutical companies were dominated by preparations, with backward production methods and simple and primitive drug packaging; from the mid-to-late 1950s to the end of the 1970s, my country's pharmaceutical packaging industry achieved certain development, and a number of medicinal products appeared. Glass factory, rubber stopper factory (workshop) and other pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers are still in the initial stage of modern production in general, and the various products during this period are far behind the international level in terms of quality and technical level.

In order to gradually change the backward situation, since the 1980s, relevant national management departments have begun to focus on promoting new technologies, new processes and new materials. my country's pharmaceutical packaging industry has entered a new stage of rapid development. Packaging materials began to appear; at the same time, the public gradually realized the importance of pharmaceutical packaging materials to ensure the quality of drugs and drug safety, and the market paid more and more attention to pharmaceutical packaging materials.

Since the late 1990s, in order to unify the product technical standards of pharmaceutical packaging materials and improve the quality of pharmaceutical packaging materials, the country began to formulate a number of national standards and industry standards. In April 2000 and July 2004, the State Food and Drug Administration promulgated the "Administrative Measures for Drug Packaging Materials and Containers (Interim)" and "Administrative Measures for Packaging Materials and Containers Directly Contacting Drugs", respectively, and approved the registration of pharmaceutical packaging materials. The system is officially implemented.

The implementation of the registration and approval system for pharmaceutical packaging materials has brought the development of my country's pharmaceutical packaging industry into a fast lane. A group of qualified and specialized pharmaceutical packaging material manufacturers have gradually become the dominant force in the market. Glass and rubber stoppers have developed into various pharmaceutical packaging materials with rich varieties and comprehensive properties. Since the promulgation and implementation of the registration and approval system for pharmaceutical packaging materials for more than 10 years, my country's pharmaceutical packaging industry has gradually developed into a sunrise industry with relatively complete product categories, continuously enhanced innovation capabilities, and very strong market demand. At this stage, the GDP of my country's pharmaceutical packaging industry has accounted for more than 10% of the total GDP of the packaging industry. The main players include large pharmaceutical companies, professional pharmaceutical packaging material manufacturers, and concurrently engaged in pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers. The industry scale continue to expand.