China has a large number of food machinery enterprises, but they are generally small in scale and low in technological content. Only about 5% of domestic food packaging machinery enterprises have the production capacity of a full set of automated packaging systems, enabling them to compete with international companies in countries such as Japan, Germany, and Italy. Most small-scale food enterprises can only rely on imported packaging machinery and equipment.
　　
According to relevant data, from January to September 2013, the cumulative output of China's packaging equipment was 76,386 units, a year-on-year increase of 4.13%; the cumulative output of metal containers was 80,618,818 cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 4.12%. While the demand for packaging machinery in China is substantial, domestic technology has failed to meet the needs of food enterprises, resulting in a continuous increase in imports of packaging machinery and equipment.
　　
The food machinery industry is a sunrise industry with enormous development potential. China is hailed as a future large-scale food processing factory. According to relevant data, China's annual output of canned fruit is currently 1.2 million tons, with about 600,000 tons exported abroad, accounting for about 1/6 of the global market. In addition to rigid social demand, the Chinese government is adopting encouraging measures to vigorously promote the transformation of food machinery enterprises towards industrialization, informatization, and marketization, helping enterprises overcome financial and technological difficulties.
　　
Visiongain, a well-known international research institution, has also predicted, through its investigation of the development trends and trajectories of major global food packaging and beverage companies in recent years, that packaging machinery will undergo revolutionary changes in the next ten years, which will bring new opportunities to the food and beverage packaging industry.
　　
Science and technology are the lifeblood and driving force of enterprises. The continuous improvement of automated control systems for packaging machinery has led to its development towards intelligence. For example, improvements in detection technology can not only display the location of current machine failures but also predict potential failures, allowing operators to promptly check and replace relevant parts, effectively preventing failures. Remote monitoring is also an innovative application of food packaging machinery, allowing group customers to centrally manage the operation of all machines and achieve remote monitoring, which is a great convenience for enterprises.
　　
In recent years, China's infrastructure construction has been continuously strengthened, and the corresponding resource consumption, pollutant emissions, and noise generated by machinery and equipment have had an increasingly greater impact on the environment. Based on the current situation, China's food packaging machinery enterprises must seize the opportunity, accelerate technological updates, follow the path of energy conservation, environmental protection, and green development, and strive to seize the initiative for future development.