Ningbo's light industry is mainly composed of the following processing industries: food, beverage, tobacco, leather, fur, feather, timber, bamboo, rattan, palm fibre, straw, furniture, printing, paper, stationery, sports facilities, plastics and househoed electrical appiance.
The main products include white paperboard, oil and fume exhauster, toy, plastics, vacuum cleaner, air-conditioner, alkaline battery, cultural and educational article, beer and cigarette, etc., all of which occupy a leading position on the domestic market.
In recent years, enterprises whose annual output value kept over RMB ￥0.1 billion include Ningbo Zhonghua PaperCo., Ltd., Zhejiang Shuaikang Group Co., Ningbo Fotile Group Co., Ningbo Samsung Group Co., Ningbo Fuda Eltectrical Appliance Group Co., Ningbo Shuangyuan Group Co., Ningbo Emmico Valve Co., Ltd., Feidashi Xinle Co., Ningbo Beifa Corporation, Yuyao Yuli Electrical Appliance Group Co., Ningbo Cigarette Factory and others.
During the 10th national five-year plan, the light industry in Ningbo should meet the need of home and abroad, to promote the technology development. The key projects include paper-making, daily used electrical appliance, plastic products making, food processing, etc. Paper making, depend on the large-scale enterprises or the enterprises with advantage, going to form a group of profit making group with close cooperation. The 3rd stage construction of white cardboard is being speeded up. The targeted output ability is 1,500,000 tons. Liquid packing paper, high strength corrugated cardboard and special anti-fake and anti-mold cardboard, artistic cardboard, etc. The production scale to be enlarged and quality to be improved. Daily used electrical appliance featured function of intelligence, energy-saving and environment-friendly, which promote the numerical control(Nc) technology and intelligent control technology, to develop family used electrical appliance like exhaust, air-conditioner, washing machine and water heater, etc. To make it an important center of production and exporting. Plastic products making, which based on the current production, should grasp the opportunity for development of chemical industry, improve the product quality, and enlarge the production of construction plastic and new products, develop the new material like plastic alloy, improve the dye processing technology and its quality, to make it a production base for dye making; Food processing, need to improve the quality and increase varieties.