About domestic and foreign printing industry production statistics (below)

Table 6: U.S. Printing Units: Billion U.S. Dollars

* Excerpted from: China's Printing Industry Annual Report P50 in 2003

**From: The US NPES Special Report, 2005.12

The sales categories in Table 6 include the direct mail market (direct mail and newspaper inserts), books, packaging, labels, packaging papers, journals, magazines, product samples, general commercial printing and express printing, telephone directory, business forms, and so on.

(2) Japan Printing Industry

We often say that the printing industry is called the printing industry in Japan, and the printing industry is only part of the printing industry.

Table 7: Japanese Printing Industry Unit: 1 Billion Yen

Excerpted from Japanese JPMA Special Report, 2005.9

Japan's printing industry includes the printing industry, the plate making industry, the book production industry, the print processing industry, and related services. It can be seen from the table that the printing industry has an absolute advantage.

(3) British printing industry

In 2003, the total turnover of printing, publishing, product processing and related industries in the UK was 45 billion pounds (about 80 billion U.S. dollars), making it the fifth largest industry in the UK. Looking at the printing industry alone, according to the statistics of the EU PRODCOM, in 2003 the UK printing industry had sales of 12.25 billion pounds (about 22 billion U.S. dollars). (From Proceedings of the 2005 International Printing and Development Forum P36)

Its product structure can be seen in Figure 1.

Excerpted from the UK BPMSA Special Report, 2005.12

(4) German printing industry

Table 8: German printing industry unit: billion euros

* From: China's Printing Industry Annual Report P54

**From: The VDMA Special Report of Germany, 2005.12

Table 9: German Print Classification Unit 2001: EUR 100 million

Third, some views

1, on the "production value"

(1) Each has its own characteristics

We can only use these four words to describe the statistics of various countries in the world. There are two major differences. First, the content of production values ​​is different. Second, the true meaning of “output value” is different, some are sales, and some are output values. Some may also be adding value; standards are not the same. When the gap is not very wide, it is difficult to make a big and small comparison.

(2) Pricing basis

Different countries have different national conditions and different pricing levels, but they will bring a huge gap to the "production value." For example, our newspaper is generally 0.5 to 1 yuan a copy, the United States newspapers a dollar, the amount of paper, printing process is almost the same, but the output value is a difference of 8 to 16 times.

2. Our production value statistics are also slightly rough, including the industry and data contained in our statistics project has been introduced above, and by comparison with foreign statistical data, we are also slightly rough. It is proposed to imitate the German model to add some children.

3. Comparison with other countries and regions

There are two aspects to compare, namely quantity (value size) and technology (advanced and backward). Because of the reasons mentioned above are difficult to compare, then the most real is the comparison of consumption, the first is the total consumption, and the second is the annual per capita consumption. Personally, the former is to measure the "comprehensive strength" of a country or region, while the latter is to look at the "richness" of people in the country and region. From this we can clearly see where we stand, our strengths and differences, and our Use Tables 10 and 11 for an attempt. The comparison of technologies is more complex and beyond the scope of this article. It is no longer discussed further.

(1) Comparing the consumption of paper and paperboard

Table 10: Total Consumption of Paper and Board (2004 Data) Unit: 10,000 tons

As can be seen from the table, China's paper and board production and consumption ranks second in the world, but the average per capita is lower than the world average.

Table 11-1: Ink Consumption in Several U.S. and Middle Countries in 2002

Table 11-2: Ink production in some countries in the world in 2004

According to Table 11, China’s ink production ranks fourth in the world, but per capita is still very low, which is lower than the world average.