East is East?

摘要

The packaging industries in China, India and Eastern Europe have shown tremendous growth potential in the past decade or so. For example, the Indian packaging market grew by around 9 per cent in 2004 and Pira International predicts growth of 14 per cent for the remainder of the decade. The same holds true for China. According to statistics released by Pira, at the end of 2003, China's 38,000 packaging manufacturing plants employed more than three million people, and contributed 2 per cent to the country's GDP.