IFPA(Association for short) is a social economic and technical group of which is to strengthen industry management and carry out economic and technical cooperation activities, enhance the technological level of industries, and promote the healthy development of this industry, under the premise of guarantees of non-packaging ,implement the cyclic utilization of the resource, according to the principle of unconstraint、equality、mutual benefit.

The tenet of the association is: to carry out and implement cyclic economic principles, policies, service for the industry, reflect the industry requirements to government, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of members, promote and improve the economic of the industry, technical and managemental level, and promote the packaging industry, especially the development of the food packaging industry healthily and orderly, and make positive efforts for the reduction of packaging, resourceful, non-harmful and industrialization of packaging.

the association is bridge between member and government, convey and implement the government′intention, assist the government to do a good job in industry macro-management, raise relevant proposal, reflect the aspiration and demands of industry, organize all kinds of experience communication and technical economical cooperation.

detailed tasks of the association are as follow:
i.To study the production, administration, product quality, raw material, facility of the industry, and propose relevant industry economical technological policies for government.
ii.To organize technical and economic information communication, make the market forecast and technical advice, do assistance among members and compensated transfer and training activities.
iii.To organize industry’s internal and outside the enterprises unify and evaluate product quality, in order to guide objectively and correctly.
iv.To strengthen to communicate in technologically and cooperate with domestic and foreign counterparts.
v.To assume relevant departments advanced product evaluation test methods, standard drafting, formulating and revising.
vi.Strengthen to contact with enterprise, understand business requirement and existing problems, communicate enterprises and contact with government departments, and play the role of bridge.
vii.To cooperate with news media closely, report timely the product which is good for association member units, meanwhile cooperate with government on fake shoddy products should be exposed and pursuit timely.

If only engage the food packaging product and relevant raw material, equipment production and research enterprise, science and technology units, tertiary institutions, these units which recognize the statute of the association and fulfill its obligations can put in application for the association,finally become the association member after approved by association and higher management discusses.rights of association members：
i.Member units enjoy the right to choose and to be elected.
ii.to share supervise, criticize and make suggestions rights for the work of association.
iii.To share the rights of participating in the activities of association organization
iv.To share the rights of obtain preferentially the technology economic information communication materials and publications which are supplied by association.
v.To enjoy the priority of the business planned by association.
vi.To have the freedom to withdraw.