The apparent consumption of plastics is around 80 million tons, and that of plastic products is about 60 million tons. Plastic products are closely related to people’s life and have a great impact on plastic raw materials.

China’s imports of plastic products are relatively small, which is closely related to the situation that China is a big country in plastic products. Most import dependence is less than 1%. In terms of the export of plastic products, the export situation continues to be optimistic and remains at the level of 15% to the left all the year round. In 2018, the export volume reached 19% and the export volume was 13.163 million tons. China’s plastic products import dependence is low, and the export situation is good.

On the whole, although China’s plastic products output continued to grow, it began to show a downward trend in 2018; the industry was concentrated in South China and East China, with uneven geographical distribution; low import dependence and good export situation

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Plastic products are the general designation of all the processes including injection molding and blistering with plastic as raw materials. China’s plastic products are mainly used in agriculture, packaging, construction, industrial transportation and engineering fields.

From 2008 to 2020, China’s plastic products industry maintained a stable growth, and showed a significant decline in 2018. This is also related to the introduction of domestic industrial policies to a certain extent. For example, since the environmental inspection started in 2017, small downstream factories and non-conforming enterprises have been successively banned and shut down, which has restricted the increase in the production of plastic products, especially in 2018. At the same time, this is also related to the large base in 2017. In 2017, China’s plastic products increased by 3.4499 million tons, an increase of 4.43%.