College of Packaging and Printing is one of the most important College in Hunan University of Technology (Another one is College of Packaging Design and Art). HUT was founded in 1978 with name of Zhuzhou Fundamental University. From the February 2006, it changed the name from Zhuzhou Institute of Technology to Hunan University of Technology. It is the only university which is characterized with the higher education of packaging technology in China. Among the 41 academic programs for undergraduate education, there are 15 programs in packaging, or intergraded with packaging. We have now about 1200 students in major Packaging and Printing.

The National Supervision Committee for Higher Education of Packaging, Packaging Education Committee of China Packaging Association, China Packaging Technology Training Center and other associations are established in our Institute.

Education and research areas cover over a larger variety of the domain, such as packaging processes, packaging materials, packaging design, packaging machines, container design, distribution packaging, packaging economy, packaging and environment, packaging testing, packaging printing, printing technology, printing materials, etc.

The strong relationship with the packaging industry is our one of characteristics. Our Zhongshang Packaging College is created jointly with an enterprise group as a students' internship base.