China is a world-renowned producer of high-quality paper products. Its papermaking technology and production capacity are among the best in the world. Here are 20 Chinese paper mills that have achieved success in their respective fields.

Equipped with advanced production facilities and experienced professional teams, these companies provide comprehensive solutions from pulp preparation to finished product processing. Despite the fierce competition in today's papermaking service provider market, these companies maintain a leading position among numerous companies.

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Below, we will give you a brief introduction of the top 20 paper mills in China, as well as their advantages and technologies. Through these, it can help you choose the right mill and make a better decision to get what you want.

The first tier: billion-level giants

Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited

Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited is a leading global company headquartered in China, specializing in the production of paper and paper products. Founded in 1995, after nearly three decades of development, the company has become one of the most influential papermaking groups in Asia and globally. Nine Dragons Paper focuses on the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of various types of packaging paper, cultural paper, specialty paper, and related products. Its business encompasses papermaking, pulp, environmentally friendly thermal power generation, logistics, and transportation, forming a comprehensive industrial chain.

Nine Dragons Paper boasts advanced papermaking equipment and automated production lines, with an annual production capacity of tens of millions of tons of paper products. Leveraging its strong technical capabilities and continuous innovation, Nine Dragons Paper is able to provide high-quality, customized paper solutions tailored to the individual needs of customers across various industries. Adhering to the service philosophy of "quality first, customer first," Nine Dragons Paper has earned the trust of customers worldwide with its stable and reliable product quality.

In terms of quality management, Nine Dragons Paper strictly adheres to internationally recognized standards, including ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 for environmental management, and ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety management, ensuring that every batch of products meets or exceeds customer expectations. Therefore, Nine Dragons Paper may not be the cheapest option, but it is undoubtedly one of the lowest-risk and most cost-effective choices.

Advantages of Choosing Nine Dragons Paper: With the world's largest production capacity, economies of scale bring cost advantages and market pricing power. Production bases are located in major coastal ports, offering convenient logistics. A comprehensive product line offers strong risk resilience.

Nine Dragons Paper's technology: It boasts many of the world's most advanced papermaking machines with a high degree of automation. It also boasts extensive expertise in waste paper pulping and environmentally friendly recycled paper production.

Shandong Chenming Paper Group Co., Ltd.

Shandong Chenming Paper Group Co., Ltd. is a large multinational enterprise headquartered in China, specializing in the entire papermaking and paper products industry chain. Chenming Paper boasts world-leading papermaking and pulp production lines, with an annual pulp and paper production capacity exceeding 11 million tons. It precisely meets customer needs for high bulk, high brightness, high strength, lightweight, and environmentally friendly production.

The company has achieved certifications for ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 for environmental management, ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety, FSC® Forest Chain of Custody, and PEFC, and has been awarded the titles of National Green Factory and China Environmental Label Product. Chenming adheres to green and sustainable development and has pioneered a "forest-pulp-paper integrated" circular economy model, ensuring that every piece of paper is sourced from controllable, environmentally friendly, and traceable raw materials, achieving both economic and ecological benefits.

Advantages of choosing Chenming Paper: As China's only A+B+H-share listed company, it enjoys strong financing channels. It has achieved complete "forest-pulp-paper integrated" operations, with a high self-sufficiency rate in wood pulp, effectively protecting against raw material price fluctuations.

Chenming Paper's technology: Leading in the field of high-end fine paper (such as coated paper and offset paper), its products offer excellent whiteness, smoothness, and printability. The company also boasts advanced pulping technology, with a complete range of production lines for both chemical and mechanical pulp.

Second tier: industry leaders

Shanying International Holdings Co., Ltd.

Shanying International Holdings Co., Ltd., founded in China in 1999, specializes in green packaging and high-end papermaking with a global presence. With over 17 years of experience, the company integrates recycled fiber recycling, industrial packaging paper, corrugated board, and precision printing, providing customized high-strength, lightweight, and environmentally friendly packaging for food, electronics, home appliances, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, automotive, agriculture, and shipping. With world-leading production lines and an annual capacity of tens of millions of tons, our dedicated team delivers complex solutions at the lowest cost and with the highest quality. Every batch of products undergoes stringent ISO9001, ISO14001, and FSC controls, ensuring peace of mind for customers.

Advantages of choosing Shanying: As China's only publicly listed company with A+B+H shares, Shanying enjoys strong financing channels. Shanying achieves complete "forest-pulp-paper integration" with a high self-sufficiency rate in wood pulp, effectively protecting against raw material price fluctuations.

Shanying's technology: Leading in high-end fine paper (such as coated paper and offset paper), Shanying's products offer excellent whiteness, smoothness, and printability. Shanying's pulping line boasts advanced technology, with a complete suite of production lines for both chemical and mechanical pulp.

Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited

Founded in Hong Kong in 1994, Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited was listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003 (02314). With an annual production capacity exceeding 9 million tons, the company specializes in kraft linerboard, high-strength corrugated medium, household paper, and wood pulp. With production bases in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Vietnam, and Malaysia, Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited sources over 90% of its raw materials from recycled waste paper. The company boasts its own thermal power and wastewater treatment systems and is ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified. The company provides green, high-strength, lightweight packaging and household paper products to industries such as food, electronics, e-commerce, home appliances, pharmaceuticals, automotive, agriculture, and shipping. Through vertical integration, intelligent technology, and an international presence, Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited continuously reduces costs and improves quality, striving to become the preferred partner for global sustainable paper solutions.

Core Strengths: One of the world's leading packaging paper manufacturers, Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited boasts high operational efficiency and outstanding profitability. In recent years, Lee and Man Paper Manufacturing Limited has successfully expanded its household paper business, creating a dual-engine business model.

Technical Highlights: Highly efficient packaging paper production lines and excellent cost control technology. The household paper business uses advanced high-speed toilet paper machines, and the products are soft and absorbent.

Huatai Group Co., Ltd.

Despite facing the challenges of a shrinking global newsprint market, Huatai Group, leveraging its deep technological expertise and forward-thinking strategies, has successfully transformed from the world's largest newsprint production base into a leading supplier of diversified products, including high-end fine paper and environmentally friendly paper. Choosing Huatai means choosing a reliable company with a solid foundation, robust technology, and successful transformation.

Core Strengths: One of the world's largest newsprint production bases, with a long brand history and a strong market foundation.

Technical Highlights: The company pioneered "low-weight, high-strength" newsprint production technology (e.g., 51 g/m2), which is globally competitive. The company is actively transitioning to high-end environmentally friendly fine paper, demonstrating strong technological transformation capabilities.

Shandong Sun Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Founded in Yanzhou, Jining in 1997, Shandong Sun Holding Group Co., Ltd. is a leading integrated forestry, pulp, and paper multinational group in China. It holds a controlling stake in its A-share listed subsidiary, Sun Paper (002078). The company specializes in high-end cultural paper, packaging paper, household paper, and wood pulp, with an annual production capacity exceeding 10 million tons. Operating across three production bases in Shandong, Guangxi, and Laos, the company is self-sufficient in over 90% of its raw materials. Its products serve a wide range of industries, including printing, electronics, food, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce, logistics, automotive, agriculture, and shipping, offering customized high-strength, lightweight, and environmentally friendly paper products. Leveraging a national-level technology center and postdoctoral workstation, the Group has achieved ISO9001, ISO14001, and FSC certifications, enabling intelligent manufacturing and clean production across the entire supply chain. The Group has earned the trust of global customers with stable quality, scale advantages, rapid delivery, and continuous innovation, and is committed to becoming a leader in the sustainable green paper industry.

Core Strengths: High levels of forestry, pulp, and paper integration, excellent management, and industry-leading profit margins. A strong focus on technological innovation.

Technological highlights: The company possesses several world-first technologies, such as continuous dissolving pulp cooking technology and the successful extraction of xylose from hydrolyzate, achieving a breakthrough in biomass refining. It also pioneered "additive-free" household paper technology.

The third tier: state-owned enterprises and foreign giants

China Paper Investment Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1988, China Paper Investment Co., Ltd. ("China Paper") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Chengtong Holdings Group Co., Ltd., a central SOE supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. It is also the only central SOE in China whose primary business is forest-based pulp and paper production, development, and utilization.

China Paper's core strategy is "Pulp and Paper + Ecology." Its business covers fine paper, white cardboard, specialty paper, carbonless copy paper, thermal paper, and self-adhesive label materials. Its products serve a wide range of industries, including printing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, food, logistics, tobacco, automotive, agriculture, and shipping. The company provides customers with customized, green, lightweight, high-strength, and traceable paper solutions.

Core Strengths: As the only central SOE papermaking platform, China Paper boasts strong integration capabilities and significant resource acquisition advantages. It owns several listed companies, including Yueyang Forest & Paper, Guanhao Hi-Tech, and Meiliyun, and its product lines cover specialty, fine, and packaging papers.

Technical highlights: High technical barriers and strong R&D capabilities in the field of specialty paper (such as carbonless copy paper and thermal paper).

APP (China), a Sinar Mas Group company, and its core subsidiaries: Ningbo Asia Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., and Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.

Core Strengths: APP boasts numerous production bases in China, including Ningbo Asia Pulp & Paper, Gold East Paper, Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper, and Guangxi Jingui Pulp & Paper. APP boasts world-leading white cardboard production capacity and exceptional financial and technical strength.

Technical Highlights: APP's technology is world-class in white cardboard cleanliness, stiffness, and printing quality. APP boasts the world's largest single-machine capacity paper machine, advanced fiber line technology, and excellent product quality and consistency.

The fourth tier: regional and market segment leaders

Fujian Liansheng Paper Co., Ltd.

Liansheng adheres to a closed-loop "waste paper-papermaking-thermal power generation-environmental protection" process, using 100% waste paper as raw material and maintaining a water reuse rate exceeding 93%. Liansheng holds ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, and FSC-CoC certifications, and has been recognized as a "Fujian Provincial Leading Enterprise in Industry and Information Technology" and a "National Green Factory." Leveraging Shanying International's network of over 30 packaging companies and 28 trading, logistics, and investment and financing platforms nationwide, the company provides one-stop delivery of base paper, paperboard, and cartons. Through multimodal transport services by port, rail, and road, Liansheng reaches markets in South China, East China, and Southeast Asia, helping customers achieve low-cost, low-carbon, and highly reliable packaging upgrades.

Core Strengths: A major packaging paper manufacturer in South China, with rapid growth and strong regional market control.

Technical Highlights: Specializing in high-strength corrugated paper and containerboard, resulting in products with excellent physical properties.

Zhejiang Jingxing Paper Co., Ltd.

Industrial Packaging Paper Strength and Performance Optimization Technology: Focuses on improving the physical properties of high-strength corrugated paper and kraft linerboard, with mature technologies specifically addressing key indicators such as ring crush index, burst strength, and interlaminar bonding. These products are suitable for manufacturing heavy-duty and high-end packaging boxes.

Waste Paper Raw Material Fine Sorting and Efficient Utilization Technology: As a company primarily using waste paper as its raw material, Jingxing has extensive experience in the fine screening, purification, and proportioning of waste paper pulp. Through technological means, it maximizes the quality and utilization rate of recycled fiber, achieving an excellent balance between cost and quality.

Tissue Paper Flexibility Quality Control Technology: Its "Yipiao" brand tissue paper is produced using advanced high-speed paper machines. While maintaining paper softness, process optimization significantly improves the product's wet strength, resulting in a superior user experience.

Regional Environmental Treatment and Recycling Technology: Located in Zhejiang, a region with strict environmental protection requirements, the company has invested in advanced wastewater treatment and reclaimed water reuse systems, achieving a clean production process and resource recycling, complying with the high environmental regulations of the Yangtze River Delta region.

Jiangsu Bohui Paper Co., Ltd.

As a key production base under APP (China), a subsidiary of Sinar Mas Group, Jiangsu Bohui Paper Co., Ltd. is deeply integrated into the world's leading industrial and technological systems. Specializing in high-end white cardboard, the company leverages the group's globally leading integrated pulp and paper technology platform to achieve comprehensive quality control from raw materials to finished product. Its production lines utilize state-of-the-art automated papermaking equipment, coupled with precision coating and surface treatment processes, resulting in products that excel in cleanliness, stiffness, printability, and hygiene and safety standards, making them a preferred material for food packaging, high-end cigarette cards, and premium gift boxes.

By leveraging APP's global R&D resources and rigorous management system, Bohui Paper demonstrates significant advantages in cost control, environmental compliance, and product consistency. Its white cardboard products not only meet the needs of domestic consumption upgrades but also compete in the international market with their stable performance, making it a key link in the high-end packaging paper supply chain in East China.

Dongguan Jinzhou Paper Co., Ltd.

As a leading company in the industrial packaging paper segment in South China, Dongguan Jinzhou Paper Co., Ltd. has consistently focused on the specialized production of high-strength corrugated paper. Leveraging advanced papermaking equipment and sophisticated process technologies, the company has established industry-leading technological advantages in key physical properties such as ring crush strength, folding endurance, and transverse fracture toughness.

Through refined raw material formulation and efficient production process management, Jinzhou Paper ensures superior product performance while achieving exceptional cost control. This "specialization, precision, and innovation" development model has enabled the company to establish a unique differentiation advantage amidst fierce market competition, making it a trusted, professional supplier in the industrial packaging paper sector.

Hubei Rongcheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.

As a key strategic presence within Taiwan's Rongcheng Group in Central China, Hubei Rongcheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. consistently adheres to the philosophy of green and circular development, deeply integrating environmental protection technologies into its production system. Leveraging advanced waste paper processing technologies and clean production processes, the company has established a complete industrial chain, from recycled fiber recycling to environmentally friendly corrugated cardboard production. The containerboard and corrugated base paper it produces excel in key performance indicators such as ring crush strength and burst resistance, while also ensuring compliance with the strictest environmental standards.

Household paper giant

Zhongshun Jierou Paper Co., Ltd.

Zhongshun Jie Rou Paper Co., Ltd., the first A-share listed company in China's household paper industry, has consistently focused on the research and development and production of high-quality household paper and personal care products. By introducing cutting-edge papermaking equipment and integrating proprietary process innovations, the company has established significant technological advantages in key product performance indicators such as flexibility, water absorption, and wet strength. Its innovative Face, Lotion, and Natural Wood product lines have earned widespread consumer trust with their differentiated softness and consistent quality.

By establishing a comprehensive quality control system and an efficient supply chain network, Zhongshun Jie Rou ensures comprehensive quality control from raw material procurement to end-of-sale. The company continuously upgrades its product mix and optimizes its distribution channels. While maintaining its advantages in traditional supermarket channels, it actively expands into e-commerce and new retail sectors, establishing a nationwide market network. This unwavering commitment to quality and keen understanding of market trends have enabled the company to maintain a leading position in the fiercely competitive household paper industry, earning it a reputation as a symbol of high-quality household paper among consumers.

Hengan International Group Co., Ltd.

Hengan International Group Co., Ltd., a leading household products company in China, maintains its leading position in the industry through exceptional brand management and continuous product innovation. By integrating high-quality global resources, the company has established a comprehensive quality control system encompassing raw material procurement, product development, and end-user sales. Core brands such as Xin Xiang Yin, Seven Days, and Anerle maintain strong market competitiveness in their respective segments, with their household paper products demonstrating exceptional performance in key indicators such as softness, absorbency, and strength.

Why choose Chinese paper mills?

Choosing Chinese paper mills as partners or suppliers is a rational decision based on their comprehensive competitiveness in the global market, mature and complete industrial chain, continuous technological innovation capabilities and reliable quality standards.

Strong Supply Chain Guarantee

Industry Concentration: Leading companies such as Nine Dragons Paper, Chenming Paper, and Shanying International have formed a powerful industrial cluster with enormous production capacity, ensuring large-scale, stable order delivery with minimal risk of supply disruptions.

Superior Product Quality

World-Class Equipment: We utilize the most advanced European papermaking lines, featuring a high degree of automation, ensuring product consistency across physical attributes such as strength, uniformity, and smoothness.

Full Product Line Coverage: From industrial packaging paper (Nine Dragons, Lee & Man), high-end fine paper (Chenming, Huatai), white cardboard (Singuang APP, Bohui), to household paper (Hengan, Jie Rou), we offer a comprehensive product range, satisfying one-stop shopping needs.

Specialization in Niche Markets: We possess deep technical expertise in our respective fields, such as Dongguan Jinzhou's high-strength corrugated paper and Guanhao Gaoxin's specialty anti-counterfeiting paper, enabling us to meet the most specialized customer needs.

Competitive Cost-Effects

Scale: Large raw material procurement volumes and production efficiency provide significant cost advantages.

Integrated Supply Chain: Leading companies (such as Chenming, Sun Group, and China Paper) are actively promoting "forest-pulp-paper integration" to increase wood pulp self-sufficiency, effectively mitigate raw material price fluctuations, and enhance cost control.

Strict Environmental Standards

Green Manufacturing: Leading companies (such as Hubei Rongcheng and Zhejiang Jingxing) have invested heavily in wastewater treatment, waste gas emissions, and solid waste resource utilization. Their environmental performance indicators far exceed national standards and meet the requirements of a global green supply chain.

Recycling: We are a global leader in waste paper pulping and recycled fiber utilization technologies, fully demonstrating our environmental responsibility for resource recycling.

Conclusion

Choosing a Chinese paper mill isn't just about price advantages; it's also about ensuring comprehensive value.

For buyers, it means a stable, high-quality, and efficient supply chain.

For partners, it means working with industry leaders with technological prowess, environmental responsibility, and long-term growth potential.

In the global papermaking landscape, Chinese paper mills have transitioned from "followers" to "runners-up," and even "leaders," fundamentally making them a reliable choice.