In recent years, packaging and printing industry developed rapidly, with an annual export volume growth rate has more than 10%. Hong Kong industry is also increasingly concerned about the combination of packaging products and environmental protection issues, the use of recycled paper made from recycled cartons, paper bags, cardboard boxes to replace some of the non-environmentally friendly plastic packaging products. The use of recycled paper products to replace the foam polystyrene packaging products in Hong Kong has become a trend.

Many Hong Kong enterprises have adopted modern packaging and printing machinery and equipment, including electronic color separation scanner, multi-color automatic presses and computer-based print production management system. Typesetting, color separation, make-up and other processes have been able to be completed together, the technology is widely used in packaging and printing design, the various forms of packaging boxes can be accessed through computer-aided design (CAD) system to make fast and high-quality treatment. Multi-color automatic press because of the use of computer-assisted color control system, long version of color printing quality, accurate and stable. Compared with other manufacturing, packaging and printing industry, higher labor costs, has affected business confidence in long-term investment in Hong Kong.

According to the survey showed that Hong Kong manufacturers in the packaging and printing industry in the Mainland and has operating facilities accounted for 25% of planned investments in the Mainland factories accounted for 19%. This means that packaging and printing industry in Hong Kong's manufacturing base will be transferred to the Mainland, reason with the mainland labor and well-resourced and low-cost related to this trend in the next few years will continue.