Since the beginning of the 21st century, a new generation of information technologies, represented by artificial intelligence, quantum information, mobile communication, the Internet of Things, and blockchain, has accelerated breakthroughs and applications. Advanced manufacturing technologies integrating robotics, digitization, and new materials are driving the transformation of the manufacturing industry toward intelligence, service orientation, and green development, etc. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is reshaping the global innovation landscape and restructuring the global economic structure.

To meet the new requirements for scientific research and innovation in the printing and packaging industry under China’s high-quality development in the new development stage, promote collaborative innovation among industry, universities, research institutes, and users, break through bottlenecks in the innovation chain of the printing industry, and continuously enhance its innovation capacity and competitiveness, the China Academy of Printing Technology, together with relevant universities and colleges, founded the “China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging” in 2010, which is held annually. After 16 years of development, the conference has become the top-level academic exchange event for scientific research in China’s printing and packaging sector, and has been widely recognized by leaders from competent government departments, experts, scholars, teachers and students from universities, as well as enterprise researchers.

2026 17th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging & Forum of Collaborative Innovation of Industry-University-Research will be held in Beijing in October 2026. The conference will invite experts, scholars, and research elites from home and abroad to discuss the development trends of printing and packaging technologies, share the latest scientific research and innovation achievements, broaden the vision of scientific and technological innovation, and continuously promote the improvement of the industry’s scientific and technological innovation level and enterprises’ core competitiveness.

The concurrent “China Printing and Packaging Forum of Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation” will be based on industry development and provide participants with multi-level and in-depth exchanges and cooperation in scientific and technological innovation. Universities and research institutions will be invited to release industrializable research achievements to promote the commercialization of scientific and technological outcomes; innovative enterprises will be invited to present their research achievements and future research cooperation needs, so as to facilitate the integrated development of the innovation chain and industrial chain.

Teachers and students from universities and colleges, as well as researchers from research institutions and enterprises, are warmly welcome to submit papers and participate in the conference!

• Color Science and Technology

Color models, Color information acquisition and reproduction, Color management, Color measurement and computation, Color evaluation and analysis.

• Image Processing Technology

Image digitization, Graphic and image processing, Image copying and reproduction, Image visual inspection and analysis, Text and image semantic extraction, Image content understanding and perception, Image quality evaluation, Image restoration.

• Printing Technology

Inkjet printing, Anti-counterfeiting technology, 3D printing, Printed electronics, Special printing, Printing process control, Digital workflow, Printability analysis, Printing output and imaging.

• Packaging Technology

Innovative packaging structure design, Packaging technology, Green packaging manufacturing, Active packaging, Fresh-keeping packaging, Intelligent packaging, Packaging safety, Packaging protection, IoT packaging and logistics management, Anti-counterfeiting packaging and product traceability, Life cycle assessment, Product carbon footprint research.

• Materials and Environmental Protection Technology

Paper and related materials, Films and related materials, Functional materials, Information recording materials, Inks and related materials, Environmental protection materials and testing technology

• Mechanical and Electronic Engineering

Intelligent manufacturing methods and integrated technology, Intelligent design and manufacturing of printing and packaging equipment, Electromechanical system control and automation, Printing machine inspection and fault diagnosis, Logistics equipment, IoT technology and smart logistics.

• Information Engineering

Information anti-counterfeiting, Big data mining and analysis, Neural network control system, Cloud computing, Large models, Database technology, Machine learning, Machine vision system, Intelligent control system, Digital resource management, Network security monitoring.

• Artificial Intelligence

Digital twin system, Face recognition, Behavior recognition, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Human-computer interaction, Semantic perception, Smart factory layout, Printing workshop scheduling, Intelligent agents, Embodied intelligence, Network collaborative manufacturing.

Conference Date: October, 2026

Conference Location: Beijing, China