The current status of China's packaging industry development shows that China is still only a big packaging nation, not a powerful one. The packaging education is of the fundamental function to realize the strategic change from "big packaging nation" to "powerful packaging nation". Based on packaging education characteristics, Hunan University of Technology explores the successful way by improving the training system of packaging talented staff, deepening the combination of industry, education and research to promote the packaging modernization and accelerate the construction of high-level higher education.