The work aims to research the development status of Chinese cigarette packaging to comprehensively promote the development of green, safe, intelligent packaging under the background of digital development. On the one hand, the development of cigarette packaging materials and cigarette paper technology, the application of chromatography, spectrum and other detection methods in evaluating the environmental performance and safety performance of packaging materials were summarized and analyzed to provide a green and safety strategy research. On the other hand, the application of digital technology in automatic production, authenticity identification of cigarette packaging, origin traceability, comprehensive quality evaluation, etc. were explored. The application of digital technology is an inevitable trend in development of three-in-one cigarette packaging, especially intelligent packaging. It will promote the cigarette packaging industry to a deeper and wider dimension.