Most ASEAN countries are dominated by agriculture, with rich and varied, large output. To meet the needs of market of ASEAN countries as well as export markets, ASEAN countries gradually began to shift from primary processing to deep processing in food industry. However, most ASEAN countries lag behind in development of food processing industry, and the scale is relatively small, so the demand for imports of food processing machinery and packaging machinery increases year by year.

Chinese food processing and packaging machinery products are with unique advantages of low transport costs, quick delivery, reliable quality, stable performance, easy operation, reasonable price, technology applicability, etc.. ASEAN countries are very popular with “Made in China”, which provides an opportunity for China’s food processing and packaging machinery exports to ASEAN. 

China Machinery Industry Federation expects that between 2011 and 2015, China’s food processing and packaging machinery industry output value is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate remained at 16%. With food import and export trade volume between the two sides increaseing year by year, as well as establishment of China - ASEAN Free Trade Area, China’s food processing and packaging machinery enterprises can enjoy zero tariff policy in exports to ASEAN, greatly reducing cost of exports.