Commodity packaging is closely interrelated to sustainable consumption while limiting excessive packaging is an important way to achieve sustainable development. In 2012,there was some progress with regard to limiting excessive packaging in Chinese society:(1) Excessive packaging was explicitly incorporated in the new amended Cleaner Production Law.(2) Regional and local governments have taken some measures to implement the existing laws and policies.(3) Civil society's observation and investigation continued,providing good reference to governments and citizens for better understanding the issue and finding potential solutions all together. However,the above progress is far behind the rapidly increasing negative impacts brought by excessive packaging,and more efforts need to be made on legislation,law implementation and public participation. <<