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Facing the development of packaging industry, deepen the reform of packaging education

modern packaging has comprehensive functions such as effective protection of commodities, convenient storage and transportation, and promotion of sales. Commodities show their personality and style through packaging. The United States, Germany, Japan and other economically developed countries attach great importance to commodity packaging, and packaging education has also developed rapidly. Since the 1980s, China has actively learned from the experience of the United States, Germany, Japan and other developed countries in cultivating packaging engineering scientific and technological talents, explored a multi-level and multi-form packaging education system suitable for China's higher education system, trained a large number of packaging scientific and technological talents after material deformation, and basically alleviated the urgent demand for packaging scientific and technological talents in the packaging industry. At the same time, the average annual growth rate of China's packaging industry is 15%, which is higher than the growth rate of 40 major industries in the national economy, and has ranked 14th. It has effectively promoted the accumulation of social material wealth and spiritual wealth, and is known as a sunrise industry with strong vitality

looking back on the 20th century, China's packaging education has gone through a difficult process and achieved fruitful results. The launch of the new century education project has brought greater opportunities and more severe challenges to higher education. In the face of fierce educational competition, packaging education should be based on the characteristics and development direction of the packaging industry, adhere to the fundamental purpose of providing intellectual resources for the packaging industry, actively promote professional construction, and cultivate compound talents suitable for the development needs of modern packaging industry

2 characteristics and development direction of China's packaging industry

2.1 overview of the development of China's packaging industry

after the Second World War, the packaging industry picked up sharply in the United States and China's plastic extruder enterprises, and developed rapidly in Germany, Japan and other economically developed countries. Since the 1980s, China's packaging industry has also made considerable progress. Now, China's packaging industry has changed the situation of "first-class products, second-class packaging, and third-class prices" in the past. The annual economic benefits of loss reduction, efficiency increase, and cost saving obtained through packaging improvement are about 5billion yuan. It undertakes the packaging task of 3trillion yuan of industrial and agricultural products and more than 100 billion dollars of export commodities, and carries out the packaging of industrial and agricultural products, light industrial products, food, beverages Electromechanical products and other industries play an important supporting role

2.2 the characteristics and development direction of China's packaging industry

the characteristics and development direction of China's packaging industry are mainly reflected in the following four aspects:

(1) relatively large scale, complete categories and varieties. The fire protection performance of the main covering system in the packaging industry should meet the relevant national laws and regulations covering the following six areas:

· paper products packaging, such as cartons, cartons, paper bags, paper cups, paper cans

· flexible packaging, such as plastic, plastic/plastic, paper/plastic, paper/plastic/aluminum foil

· metal container packaging, such as metal cans, barrels, hoses

· glass containers, such as bottles and cans

· plastic product packaging, such as PET bottles, foaming buffer packaging materials

· collective packaging, such as wooden cases, pallets, containers, container bags, etc

(2) it has formed a relatively complete range of packaging and printing industries, which can provide supporting services for light industry, food, beverage, medicine, household appliances, health products, cosmetics, toys, services and other industries, and has certain competitiveness in the international market. At present, there are about 6000 packaging and printing enterprises above the county level in China. In 1998, the output value was about 31.6 billion yuan, increasing at an average rate of 10% every year

(3) the development of packaging industry should be coordinated with environmental protection. With the further development and improvement of modern packaging, green packaging has received widespread attention. Human beings are actively seeking to make full use of renewable resources, save natural resources and reduce energy consumption without polluting the environment and protecting human health, so as to obtain a virtuous cycle between packaging and the environment. The "green engineering plan" being implemented in China puts forward green requirements for product packaging, and pays special attention to the promotion and application of green packaging materials and the recycling, treatment and reuse of packaging waste

(4) anti counterfeit packaging technology is highly valued by society and industry. Counterfeit and inferior products flood the market, seriously disrupting the market order of company competition, and are the second largest public hazard in the world after drug trafficking. Anti counterfeit packaging technology has become an important strategy to protect the safe production and circulation of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, food, cosmetics and other commodities

looking at the characteristics and development direction of China's packaging industry, it is obvious that the packaging industry is a cross industry emerging industry with a wide coverage, and there is a great demand for compound talents who systematically master modern packaging technology. Therefore, China's packaging education should be based on the characteristics and development trend of modern packaging industry, adhere to the fundamental purpose of providing intellectual resources for the packaging industry, further enrich and improve the theoretical system of packaging discipline, broaden professional construction ideas, optimize curriculum and teaching content, and cultivate compound talents to meet the development needs of modern packaging industry

3 strengthen packaging and printing, expand packaging design, cultivate packaging management, and highlight professional characteristics

the packaging discipline is a comprehensive discipline in the interdisciplinary group. It studies the basic theories and methods of protecting commodities, facilitating storage and transportation, and promoting sales, carries out visual, functional, and green packaging design of products from the perspective of system engineering, and solves the comprehensive problems in the circulation process of product protection, storage and transportation, and promoting sales, This is the characteristic and source of life of this discipline

the major of packaging engineering cultivates senior engineering and technical personnel who master the basic theory and basic skills of packaging to protect, facilitate circulation and promote sales, have the design and management ability of packaging system, and can be engaged in packaging design, packaging and printing, quality inspection, technical management and scientific research in packaging enterprises, packaging and printing enterprises, scientific research institutions, foreign trade, commodity inspection, commodity production and circulation and other departments

based on the characteristics and development trend of modern packaging industry, China's packaging education should adhere to the school running guiding ideology of "strengthening the foundation, having characteristics, and cultivating compound senior engineering and technical talents", and actively promote the professional construction idea of "strengthening packaging and printing, expanding packaging design, cultivating packaging management, and highlighting professional characteristics"

(1) strengthen the professional direction of packaging and printing

systematically learn and master the characteristics and applications of four categories of packaging materials, packaging and printing principles and processes, packaging and printing quality control, anti-counterfeiting printing principles and methods, packaging process principles and methods, packaging quality inspection, packaging waste recycling, treatment and reuse, packaging management and regulations. The training plan should focus on courses or contents such as printing and packaging materials, packaging and printing, printing quality control, packaging technology, special printing, anti-counterfeiting printing, packaging machinery, packaging process control, packaging testing and experiments

(2) expand the professional direction of packaging design

systematically learn and master the characteristics and applications of four major categories of packaging materials, packaging protection principles and methods, packaging design principles and methods, packaging structure and CAD, green packaging design, anti-counterfeiting packaging design theories and methods, packaging management and regulations, and packaging quality inspection. In the training plan, courses or contents such as graphic design, packaging sales and psychology, printing and packaging materials, transportation packaging, packaging decoration design, anti-counterfeiting packaging, modern advertising design, packaging technology, bar code technology, packaging structure design, packaging CAD, etc. should be focused on

(3) cultivate the professional direction of packaging management

according to the international research on the framework of packaging discipline system, modern packaging discipline includes three branches of packaging social science, packaging natural science and packaging technology science, among which the framework of packaging social science system mainly includes packaging management, packaging economics, packaging marketing, packaging psychology, packaging standardization and regulations, packaging logistics Packaging environmental science and other courses or contents. After China's entry into WTO, the packaging industry has a more urgent demand for packaging scientific and technological talents who are familiar with packaging theory and good at packaging management. However, so far, colleges and universities in China have not formed a talent training program that is not only familiar with packaging theory, but also good at packaging management. At present, the Department of packaging of the school of printing and packaging engineering of Xi'an University of technology has begun to study the framework of the discipline system of packaging sociology, formulate the training plan of packaging management talents, and collect, sort out and compile the course materials of packaging management, packaging economics, packaging marketing, packaging psychology, packaging standardization and regulations, packaging environment, etc

it is worth noting that optimizing the curriculum and teaching content, strengthening the reform and research of professional teaching materials and experimental content, is one of the important topics to promote the construction of packaging engineering specialty. For example, the reform and research of professional teaching materials and experimental contents such as green packaging, anti-counterfeiting packaging, anti-counterfeiting printing, bar code technology, etc. The second meeting of the national packaging engineering education steering sub committee of general colleges and universities held in November 2001 has clearly pointed out that "the construction of teaching materials is the basic construction of undergraduate teaching, and the packaging engineering major is a new major with comprehensive and cross characteristics, which is closely related to the development of Science and technology, closely combined with the requirements of the talent market, and the content of teaching materials is updated rapidly", This has laid a good foundation for the further promotion of professional construction in packaging universities in China, where the performance consumption of plastic granulation accounts for almost 1.5% of the total industrial energy consumption, which is nearly 1.5% higher than that in the UK

4 theoretical system for the development of packaging discipline

packaging discipline is a comprehensive discipline in an interdisciplinary group. It organically absorbs and integrates new theories, new materials, new technologies and new processes from different disciplines, and solves the comprehensive problems in the circulation process of product protection, storage and transportation, and sales promotion from the perspective of system engineering. This is the characteristics and source of life of packaging discipline. According to the basic theories and analytical methods of contemporary packaging discipline research, Professor songbaofeng and others elaborated two major issues that packaging has met all the conditions of a discipline and packaging discipline has embodied the characteristics of comprehensive disciplines in the interdisciplinary group. Professor Pan Songnian also discussed the theoretical system of packaging graduate education and packaging discipline. Professor Xi Dechang and others made an in-depth elaboration on the meaning, research scope, purpose and basic contents of modern packaging dynamics. Professor Wang Zhiwei expounded the problems of packaging mechanics from the aspects of buffer packaging theory, brittleness value theory, packaging materials, packaging containers, buffer packaging design methods, etc., and preliminarily constructed the discipline system of modern packaging mechanics. With regard to the further development and improvement of the theoretical system of packaging discipline, the author believes that the research on the basic theory and application technology of packaging materials, transportation packaging, packaging technology and so on should be strengthened

(1) packaging materials science

such as the characteristics and applications of packaging materials, new buffer packaging materials, edible packaging materials, degradable (photolysis, biodegradation, light/oxygen degradation, water degradation) packaging materials, packaging waste recycling, utilization and treatment technology and environmental protection technology, packaging materials' printability, etc

(2) transportation packaging

such as product damage mechanism, brittle value theory, cushioning and anti vibration packaging theory and design, mechanical properties and structural design of transportation packaging containers, standardization of circulation environmental conditions, evaluation methods, cushioning packaging CAD, etc

(3) packaging technology

such as