On September 1, 2023, a new national standard for food and cosmetic packaging known as The Requirements of Restricting Excessive Package-Foods and Cosmetics, or GB 23350-2021, will come into effect. In May of this year (May 24 ,2022), the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) also released the no. 1 amendment list for GB 23350-2021 and announced its implementation date as August 15, 2022. Furthermore, SAMR held a press conference to further explain the contents and details for the amendment list on May 26, 2022. Relevant officials from the Consumer Products industry department in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) also attended the press conference.

As a whole, the amendment list puts stricter technical parameters on key indexes, such as package layers, necessary spatial coefficient of commodity, package cost and mixed packing etc. for mooncakes and zongzi (a unique traditional Chinese food eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival that consists of a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves).