Every year, Chinese and international experts in wood industry, including high-level government officials, epresentatives of international organizations, industrial associations and outstanding companies talk about current situation and outlook of Chinese and global wood market.

Welcome Address & Keynote Speeches

Moderated by Tao Yiming, Vice President & Secretary General,  China Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association

Mr.TaoYiming is the vice president & secretary general of China Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association. He holds double degrees of senior engineer and senior economist. 

Mr.Tao has nearly 30 years of experience within the timber industry. He has worked successfully to promote the development of Chinese wood industry and is called to make related recommendations to the Chinese government. He has participated in drafting many of wood industry policies, standards, science and other researches approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce and National Standards Committee.

As an advisor to the NSC, he has been party to drafting standards for more than 20 industries in over 10 countries. Mr Tao has published over 20 papers on wood industry and been the editor for important books, such as China's Circulation of Timber and Wood Products Industry Yearbook, China's Timber Saving Alternative Work Practical Handbook ,etc.

Mr. Petteri Pihlajamäki, currently a Director at Pöyry Management Consulting, has over 25 years of experience in strategic planning and development of forestry and forest industry worldwide. He holds an M.Sc. in forestry from University of Helsinki and an M.Sc. in Business Economics from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

Mr. Pihlajamäki has gained extensive expertise in combining complex issues, such as fibre resources, markets, competitiveness and environmental information, into strategic plans. He has advised companies and governments in how to improve performance and increase value.

Mr. Pihlajamäki has accumulated practical project experience since the 1990s; at first a management and later a supervisory role. He has gained also extensive field experience in assignments in Russia and Eastern Europe, India, South-East Asia, East Africa, Latin America and the USA.

Presentation Topic:

Global Fibre and Biomass Markets——Challenges and Opportunities

Presentation Outline:

Global fibre and biomass markets are undergoing major changes. The growth of forest product markets, particularly in China and Asia, is putting an increasingly large pressure on regional and global forest resources. The key question is how to meet this demand.

Plantation forests have become a major source of incremental fibre supply. However, competition for land combined with cost inflation are reducing their competitive advantage, and new solutions for plantation forestry are required. Russia remains a major untapped resource basin, but major challenges for increased harvest remain also there.

New forest-based products and bioenergy uses for wood are developed actively, which increases competition for limited raw material resources.

Mr. Zhu Guangqian, a senior engineer graduated from Beijing Forestry University in1965，has over 40 years of experience within the timber industry. He has served as Section Chief and Department Chief in important state administrative departments in charge of means of production, namely the Ministry of Goods and Materials, the Ministry of Internal Trade, the State Administration of Internal Trade, and the President of China Timber and Wood Products Distribution Association. Mr Zhu has authored many publications on timber industry and timber market. Currently, he serves as the Honorary President of China Timber and Wood Products Distribution Association and expert for Modern Timberwork Technology Project of Ministry of Housing and Urban – Rural Development.

Presentation Topic: 

China's Timber and Wood Products Trade and Industry Dynamics

Presentation Outline:

1. China’s timber markets：consumption and resources.

2. Timber imports in the first half of 2015：current status and trends of imports of logs and sawn timber including countries, species, prices, inventories, etc.

3. Current status and trends of China’s wooden buildings. Wooden structures promote the import of softwood and change the industrial structure of panel board in China.

Session I: Updates on China's Market's Demand for Wood

Mr. Jin Baisong has been a research fellow of Institute of International Trade of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation since 2004. After finishing his master’s degree at the Renmin University of China in 1987, he entered the Chinese Academy of International Trade.

Presentation Topic: 

China's Economy and Foreign Trade- Current State and Outlook

Presentation Outline:

China’s economy and foreign trade in transition:

—— current macro economy and foreign trade;

—— national policy measures to support the development of foreign trade;

—— strategic opportunities from China’s new round of opening-up.

Dr. Zhang Songdan has been the deputy director and senior engineer of the Division of Resources, State Forest Administration, since July 2004. Currently he is also a part-time teacher at the National Reward Experts Database and National Bureau of Civil Servants Training, which makes him an off-campus mentor-teacher of Master of Public Administration (MPA).

Presentation Topic:

Analysis of China's Forest Resources Management and Cutting Policy

Presentation Outline:

1. Forest resources in China

2. The Chinese policy of deforestation

3. The "three steps" strategy of China’s total ban of commercial forest harvests

4. The construction of China's national forest reserves

Session II: Logistics & Infrastructure

Moderated by Gao Ya, Secretary General,  China Wood Importers Importers Committee of China Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association

Ms. Gao Ya is the director of International Exchange & Cooperation and secretary general of Timber Importers Committee in China Timber and Wood Products Distribution Association. She used to be Project Officer of The Forest Trust (formally Tropical Forest Trust) and Technical Officer of European Forest Institute, EU’s FLEGT Asia Regional Support Program (FLEGT Asia). Ms. Gao holds a B.Sc. in International Economics and Business from the University of Groningent, Netherlands and an M.Sc. in Environmental Governance (MEG) from the University of Albert-Ludwigs-Freiburg, Germany.  

Ms.Yang Liqiong holds a BE Degree in forging process and equipment from Chongqing University, an MBA from Chongqing Institute of Business Administration, a master's degree of management economics at NanYang Polytechnic and titles of senior economist and engineer. She has successively worked in Chongqing Qijiang Gears Factory,  Chongqing Municipal Economic Commission, labor Committee of Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Office, Chongqing Huayi Holding Group and Chongqing Textile Holding Group.

Currently, Ms.Yang is the deputy director of Chongqing Economic & IT Commission and executive deputy director of Chongqing Municipal Logistic Coordination office, where she is in charge of sections such as industrial park, chemical medicine, education and training, the city logistics office (comprehensive coordination, transportation coordination, supply of goods and liaison offices in Europe). In 2010, she opened China's first Sino-European train, namely the Yuxinou Railway Passage with her team. Ms. Yang has been deeply involved in the development of the New Silk Road Economic Belt strategy.

Presentation Topic:

Yuxinou Railway Passage Development Brings New Opportunities for Asia-Europe Economic and Trade Cooperation

Presentation Outline:

1. The development of Yuxinou Railway Passage  

2. Comparative advantages compared with the traditional international logistics channel

3. Impacts of the development of industrial cluster in inland China

4. Chongqing undertakes the responsibility to develop the environment for the industrial cluster transferring from Eastern China.

Mr.Hu Xianjin, director of the Port Logistics Office of Economic Development Zone of Wuhan, Hubei Province, has engaged in transportation management, highway projects construction and port logistics for a long time. In recent years, Mr.Hu made research in port-centered industry, multimodal transport, logistics park planning, etc. Mr. Hu has also published many papers in port logistics around the Yangtze River Economic Zone and the “One Belt, One Road” National Strategy.

Presentation topic: 

The Implementation of Yangtze River Economic Zone and “One Belt, One Road” National Strategy will provide new opportunities for Middle-China’s international logistics.

Presentation Outline:

With the background of globalization, China has begun a new round of opening-up including the  implementation of two national strategies, namely the “One Belt, One Road” and “Promoting the development of Yangtze River Economic Zone relying on the Golden Waterway”, and Wuhan is an important part of this strategy. Hubei is located in the center of China, and Wuhan is the geographical center China and the node city to carry out the two national strategies, bringing major new development opportunities.

Wuhan Newport is the supporter of Wuhan Yangtze River Shipping Center construction. It relies on its location advantage linking East and West. It already formed a 100 million tons harbor, achieved million TEUs of container throughput, which made it the largest throughput of a single port in the upper and middle Yangtze River, and entered the first square of global inland river container port. Wuhan is the node port linking river and sea in the center-west area of Yangtze River Economic Zone and the foreign trade logistics portal radiating to 6 provinces and numerous cities in the Midwest China.

Wuhan carries out all-around cooperation and communication with the Volga River, Mississippi River, Rhine River and other basins. Wuhan Newport has already launched short sea routes to Shanghai Yangshan Port, four ASEAN countries and Taiwan. Wuhan Newport engages in promoting the strategy of “One Belt, One Road”, planning the land-sea and river-sea as a whole, constructing the East linkage in the Midwest and international connections in all directions. The rail and water multimodal transport “Wuhan Xinjiang and Europe”, which nodes in Wuhan Newport has already started. The node will be used to transport high-quality forest and timber industry resources from the Novosibirsk region in Russia to inland China. This route will transfer to waterway at the Yangluo port area of Wuhan Newport making Wuhan into the distribution center for Russia forest products in center-east China. Economic and trade cooperation with surrounding countries through the “One Belt, One Road” strategy will develop and open up the region. Strengthening the New Eurasian Land Bridge and the Land-sea and River-sea lines will bring new opportunities to Wuhan.

Mr. Dong Yuhang is the General Manager of COSCO Far-Reaching Shipping Co., Ltd, the only professional company for timber marine transportation under the largest shipping group in China——COSCO Group. The company has many professional timber carriers and a certain influence in international timber transportation market, especially in the log shipping market from West Africa to the Far East. Mr. Dong Yuhang has been engaged in shipping operations, investment and business management in COSCO Far-Reaching and various subsidiaries of the COSCO Group for more than 20 years. He has professional expertise in shipping company operation, timber shipping, and development of the international shipping market.

Presentation topic:

Development and pricing mechanism of timber marine transportation market

Presentation outline:

1. Overview and development of international bulk carrier market.

2. Structure and development trends of global timber shipping market.

3. Factors affecting freight rates of timber ships.

4. Other issues needed to pay attention to in marine  timber  transportation.

Mr. Zhu Yutong specializes in technology R&D, data analysis and strategic research of the bulk stock e-commerce. He is currently vice chairman of Shanghai Pudong Electronic Commerce Association and was named the Pudong E-Commerce Man of the Year in 2014. Mr. Zhu led “Mysteel.com” team to build the steel commodity information platform, which reaches the top 5000 of Alexa in 2006. In 2013, the data cloud of bulk stock developed by Ganglian was brought into the big data cooperation platform of National Bureau of Statistics. As the internet framework technology partner of Wanlin Co., Ltd, Shanghai Ganglian constantly imports e-commerce experiences of bulk stock into the construction of Woodcloud. The very essence of Mr. Zhu’s work is reducing the system risks of circulation, improving the transaction and delivering efficiency of bulk stock through efficient electronic platform services, which aims to make the bulk stock transactions more convenient and transparent.

Presentation topic:

Development Prospect of E-commerce in Timber and Wood Products Trade in China

Presentation outline:

1.  How to reflect the value of internet in industrial raw materials trade?

2.  What implications does the steel e-commerce bring to us?

3.  Where should the timber e-commerce begin from?

4.  The e-commerce platform will promote the trade service platform and the real-time information screening for customer through price discovery, tracing of the goods, trade finance, transaction hedging and risk ecology. Information consumption and credit consumption based on Woodcloud will gradually be recognized by the market in the future. The large scale and growth of Woodcloud will bring a revolution to wood trade in network era.

Concurrent Session A:

Update on Global Softwood Supply

Moderated by Heikki Vidgren, Senior  Consultant

Pöyry Management Consulting

Heikki has 20 years of experience and training in the wood industry sector. He has hands-on experience with sawmills and timber trade companies in Finland, Germany and the UK. Heikki joined Pöyry after he completed his M.Sc.(Eng.) in wood technology. At Pöyry Heikki specializes in wood products markets, industry and technology. Since 2005, Heikki has worked in the London office, where he has completed numerous assignments around the world within the wood products sector, both for traditional and new wood products. In total, Heikki has carried out valuations, technical assessments or due-diligences of over 50 production facilities, and visited over 150 facilities around the world.

Mr. Zhang Yan, chairman assistant of TATA, has about 15 years of experience in sales management and marketing of building materials. TATA Wooden Door was founded in 1999, with the annual production capacity of 1.1 million sets. Total output value reached 1 billion in 2014. Nowadays, TATA has 6 manufacturing sites in Beijing, Tianjin, Anhui, Jilin, Shanghai and Henan, with annual sales growing by 50% each year. 

Presentation Topic: 

Development and raw materials demand of China’s wooden door industry

Presentation Outline:

Wooden door industry is one of the newest but the fastest growing industries in China’s household market. Currently most of China's wooden door enterprises are still at the primary stage of development in the scale of production, processes, equipment and raw materials. They use medium density fiberboard, particle board and hollow particle board as their main materials. Will new wood materials play a role in catalyzing the development of China’s wood industry?

Mr Rick Jaccard is currently representing TimberWest Forest Corporation located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and assumes the role of Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  TimerWest is a major supplier of logs to Asian markets from Canada and is the largest private timber owner in Western Canada. Rick is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Forestry and is a Registered Professional Forester. Having over 30 years of forest industry experience in British Columbia, Rick has held a variety of posts ranging from harvest engineering and planning to managing timberlands operations.  Most recently Rick has taken on his current role and heads TimberWest‘s log sales and marketing team focusing primarily on log sales into China, Japan, Korea and the US. That combined with domestic log sales, Rick’s group is responsible for the sale of over 3 million m3 of softwood logs annually.

Presentation topic: 

North American Markets and Export Outlook

Presentation Outline:

1.  Current factors affecting supply of logs and lumber from both western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United State

•  the effects of the Mountain Pine beetle in British Columbia 
•  reduced production of logs and lumber from Eastern Canada
•  the effects of continuing recovery of the US housing market

2.  The changing dynamics resulting from world currency exchanges and how this affects log flow and trading behavior

3.  The current restrictions on BC log exports imposed by federal and provincial governments and how this regulation impacts the ability to respond to growing.

Ms. Linda Sewell is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OneFortyOne Plantations. The company was formed in October 2012 to acquire the forward rotations over 80,000 ha of softwood plantations from the Government of South Australia. Prior to this Linda was the CEO successively of HVP Plantations and the laminated veneer lumber (LVL) subsidiary of Carter Holt Harvey with manufacturing operations in Australia and NZ and marketing offices around the world. Linda spearheaded the development of the log export trade via the Port of Portland, Victoria as a long term sustainable complement to the existing domestic markets. Linda is a leader in her industry, having over 6 years on the board of AFPA (and its predecessor A3P), the national industry association representing forest resources, processing and pulp & paper. She is also instrumental in the establishment of the Association of Green Triangle Growers, a collaboration of six major forest growers to encourage new domestic processing options for the surplus fibre in the region. Linda has a Bachelor of Science (Botany) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance).

Presentation Topic:  

Australian Roundwood Exports, a Case Study

Presentation outline:

1. Introduce a highly relevant case study on the evolution of the export log trade from Australia, the Port of Portland.

2. Describe the challenging journey from domestic roundwood demand through export failures to a sustainable export business.

3. Describe how the region is seeking to balance export and domestic markets to build a stronger industry over the long term.

Mr. Sviatoslav Bychkov is involved with forestry, pulp & paper and wood working industry for the past 15 years. He is currently working for the biggest Russian sawn wood and softwood plywood producer with extensive international operations in Germany and strong presence on all major international sawn timber markets focusing on China. He is primarily responsible for Public Affairs, Government Relations and Strategic business development.

Mr. Bychkov is actively participating in a number of industry related activities:

• Member of the Working Group on Forestry State Policies within Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia;
• Member of the Forest based industries section of Biotech 2030 program under Ministry of Ilim Timber Industry  and Trade;
•  Chairman of the Council of the Russian Economy in Germany;
•  Member of Russia Working Group within European Organization of the Sawmill industry.

Ilim Timber Industry (www.ilimtimber.com) has over 3,000 employees and is a leading global manufacturer of sawn goods, deep processed timber products and softwood plywood. ITI was established in 2007 as a spin-off of the former woodworking assets of Ilim Pulp, the largest Russian pulp and paper company, as part of the JV arrangements with International Paper. The consolidated capacity of Ilim Timber is about 2.65 million cubic meters of sawn timber and 240 thousand cubic meters of softwood plywood. Production facilities are located in Russia and Germany.

Presentation Topic:  

Russia Log & Lumber Exports: Current & Future Outlook

Presentation Outline:

Major trends in log supply and capacity utilization in Russian saw mill industry as well as timber export dynamics from Russia.

Devaluation of Russian Rouble and its effect on timber exports and investments into new projects.

New initiatives of Russian government including unified control e-system of timber turnover.

Mr. Leonhard Scherer, sales director and pier head of wood packaging of Pfeifer Timber GmbH, has been working for Anton Heggenstaller GmbH (German veteran wood processing enterprises acquired by Pfeifer Timber GmbH) since he got a degree of business &market management in1989. Having worked on wood processing industry for more than 25 years, he obtains original ideas and rich experience in plate sales, wood packaging materials and non-solid wood pallet block production & sales. With his keen insight on the market as well as correct understanding of enterprise strategy, he contributed much to make Pfeifer Timber GmbH become one of the leading enterprises in the field of wood products production and sales of Europe. At the same time, he also made undeniable contributions to the promotion of compound wood pallet block application.

He has been responsible for plate and combustible biofuel pellets since he entered the company management in 1997. Besides being in charge of the plank business, he became the pier head of packaging materials in mid-2012.

Presentation Topic:

Central European Sawnwood Market and Export

Presentation Outline：

1.  Softwood lumber market in Europe, especially Germany / Austria

2.  Presentation of the Pfeifer Group as one of the leading companies in the timber industry in Europe

3.  Presentation Euroblock

Panel Discussion: Success strategy in global softwood market by 2020

Mr. Merivuori graduated from Helsinki University faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in 1989 and from Helsinki School of Economics MBA program in 1990. He has a solid background within the Finnish sawmill industry. He has an established track record in industrial management as well as in sales and marketing of sawn softwood in the global softwood market.  As a member of the management group of a global consulting company, his career also includes participation and management of several international consulting projects related to strategic planning, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, forest inventory analysis, wood procurement, performance improvement, investment planning, supply chain, softwood market studies, supply chain and renewable energy as well as other sustainability related issues within the global softwood product industry.

Introduction of Finnish Sawmills:

Finnish sawmills manufacture and market high-quality sawn softwood. Finnish softwood is a versatile, recyclable and low-carbon material for various applications. The raw material comes from sustainably managed and certified forests. The sawmills’ clientele include construction, furniture, packaging and joinery industries, timber retailers and DIY businesses around the world. In addition, sawmills produce high-quality wood chips, sawdust and wood based fuels for the pulp and renewable energy businesses. The Finnish sawmills provide their customers with reliable deliveries, constant quality and long-term commitment – driven by entrepreneurship. The Finnish Sawmills Association promotes the interests of the Finnish independent sawmill industry and offers various services for its membership.  Its membership consists of about 30 companies from all over Finland.

Mr. Jan Söderlind is the International Director of Swedish Wood and the chairman of European Wood.

Mr Söderlind studied at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, where he graduated with a MBA in International Economy 1991. From 1991 until 2002, he worked at Graningeverken AB (today a part of SCA Timber) as Marketing Director. He was managing director of the Nordic Timber Council over the years 2002-2006.

Introduction of Swedish Wood:

World-wide, Sweden is the third largest exporter of sawn timber. In Europe, the Swedish sawmilling industry holds a prominent position, as the second-largest producer and the largest exporter of sawn softwood. Swedish wood is used for furniture, floors, wall panels, mouldings, windows, doors, and as a construction material.

Large investments in the modernization of the Swedish sawmills have resulted in automated high speed manufacturing technology. This enables the Swedish sawmills to produce high quality products according to customer demands in an efficient way. All Swedish timber comes from sustainably manager forests, where every harvested tree is replaced by several new planted seedlings. The total Swedish production of sawn timber is 17 million m3 whereof 12 million m3 are exported. The sawn timber is mainly softwood: Swedish spruce, and Swedish pine.

Mr. Jeff Sun, General Manager of Sunrisen LLC, has graduated from China Northeast Forestry University.   He was the former Vice President of China Timber Import& Export Co. and the President of its North American office. Mr. Sun has been actively engaged in North American timber trade for more than 30 years.  Witnessing the ups and downs during the past few decades, Mr. Sun is particularly insightful about the evolving industry and like many of his long time colleagues; he always shares great passion for wood.  Currently Mr. Sun is responsible for North American timber products trading and Forestry Industry Investment Consulting business. 

Introduction of Sunrisen LLC :

Sunrisen LLC is located in Washington State, the Evergreen State,  a major hub for the United States log export industry. With more than 30 years of experience in wood exporting from North America to China, Sunrisen is highly knowledgeable with North American wood products, markets, and trends. The firm has extensive networking and relationships in both Chinese and American wood industries. Sunrisen enjoys an excellent reputation for providing stable supply of premium quality products.

Annually, Sunrisen exports about 500,000 cubic meters of logs to the Chinese market in both bulk vessel shipments and containers. Destination ports in China include major ports such as Shanghai, Taicang, Yantian, Xiamen, Ningbo, Qingdao, and Tianjin. With strong partnerships in the U.S./Canada wood industry and experience, Sunrisen also provides consulting services tailored to customer profiles and needs on investment opportunities in timber sales, forestland management, wood manufacturing projects, and other industry investment fields.

Concurrent Session B:

Update on Global Hardwood Supply

Moderated by  Miia Tähtinen, Senior Consultant

Pöyry Management Consulting

Mr. Zeng Youquan, graduated from Zhejiang University. He has successively worked as manager of the integrated kitchen supply chain Fotile and assistant of general manager & logistics procurement director of Jiusheng. Curerntly Mr Zeng is the deputy general manager of Jiusheng, majoring in the whole system including raw material procurement, manufacturing technology development, production and warehousing distribution. With more than 10 years of experience in wood industry, he is very familiar with the overall kitchen cabinet, wardrobe wooden floor industry and other related industries.

Presentation topic: 

Demand Trend of Wood Raw Materials in China Wooden Floor Industry

Presentation Outline:

1. The production process & materials of main products in China’s wooden floor enterprise

2. Typical imported hardwood materials used in the Chinese wooden floor industry

3. The demand trends of imported hardwood of Chinese wooden floor enterprises in the future

4. An introduction of Zhejiang Jiusheng Wood Co., Ltd.

Mr. Stéphane Glannaz, Chief Commercial Officer of Precious Woods Group, has 25 year experience in tropical timber operations and sourcing. Prior to joining Precious Woods, Mr. Glannaz has served as Head of Marketing and Sales at tt-Timber in Switzerland and Vice President of Timber Division at Olam International Singapore. Mr. Glannaz has hands-on experience in promoting sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin and Amazonas. He has personally experienced the difficulties of adapting forest operations to the principles of SFM on the ground, but also witnessed the positive changes these efforts brought to the companies, to the forest and forest dependent people. Mr. Glannaz is a registered grader at Association Technique International des Bois Tropicaux (ATIBT) and holds a Master Degree in Marketing and International Business.

Presentation Topic:  

Wood Supply from Sustainably Managed Forests in Congo and Amazon Basin

Presentation Outline:

1.      The story of Precious Woods, applying SFM on the ground

2.      Overview of Forest Industry and Wood Supply from Congo and Amazon Basins

3.      Introduction of Commercial Species from Congo and Amazon Basins

4.      Experience with Marketing Certified Wood in China

Mr. Xie Jinhe, managing director of Shunde Hengye Trade co., Ltd. and president of Shunde Wood Industry Chamber of Commerce, has a 20 years of experience in international trade.

Since 1997, Mr. Xie has been specialized in southeast Asian wood. In 2000, he imported rubber wood from Thailand, making him one of the earliest wood traders importing Thai rubber wood as well as one of tycoons in this area.

In order to create a greater cooperation and an exchange platform, Xie Jinhe created Shunde Wood Industry Chamber of Commerce, gathering local wood industry together, giving form to overall advantages of a platform and changing the fragmented situation. The chamber has been a huge success in leading the industry development and industry consensus, standardizing market behaviour. It reflects the members, maintains their legitimate rights and interests, improves trade with Thailand (starting the rubber wood industry standards) and promotes the development of the industry. The chamber has made a positive contribution in the import trade practised by cooperating with government departments to establish an effective supervision system, standardize management, promote transformation and upgrade the industry.

Presentation Topic:  

Thailand China Rubber Wood Trade

Presentation Outline:

Thai rubber wood resources, current export situation to China and prospective exports

• Present situation and development trends of rubber wood processing industry in Shunde
• Usage of rubber wood in furniture manufacturing industry of China
• Rubber wood supply capacity from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries to China
• Successful experience  of Shunde Wood Industry Chamber of Commerce in advancing healthy development of China +Thailand rubber wood trade, promoting the transformation and upgrading the industry.

Dr. Su Haiying, Associate Professor is working as Deputy Secretary-General in International Forest Products Trade of SFA and Associate Professor in Chinese Academy of Forestry. Ms. Su has more than 10 years' experience of research and field in forest products market and policy, China’s timber legality system, international forestry, especially in the research and promotion of sustainable overseas forest management and investment. She also has good experience of Russian forestry research.

Presentation Topic:

China's perspective and action：Responsible timber trade and overseas forest land investment

Presentation Outline:

1.  Overview on China’s forest products trade and overseas investment

2.  Policies and actions on responsible trade and overseas forest land investment by enterprises

3.  Case study on the application of voluntary guidelines in Africa

4.  Future focus

Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities of Growing Hardwood Export to China

Mr. John Chan is a science graduate from the University of British Columbia, Canada. John has accumulated over 30 years of working experience in forest products, of which more than 20 years were devoted to the promotion of American hardwood products. He joined the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) as Director of its Southeast Asia and Greater China Office when the regional office was established in Hong Kong in 1992. He is responsible for developing marketing strategies and programs for the promotion of American hardwood in the region covering China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Mr. William Bwalya，president of Zambia National Association for Sawmillers, from January 2010 to December 2012, he served as Secretary General, and Secretary General from December 2012 to August 2015 served as Secretary General, then he was elected President from 29 August 2015 till 30th August 2018.

ZNAS is an umbrella organisation of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in sawmilling in Zambia processing and trading in soft wood (pinus kesiya, pinus oocarpa, Eucalyptus Grandis and Eucalyptus cloesiana) and indigenous trees (hard woods). The membership of ZNAS is 403. Has risen from 53 members at inception.The objective of the organisation is to represent business interests of members, provide business linkages and sourcing of new markets and partnerships.

ZNAS has duly registered branches under Zambian laws in almost all districts in Zambia harvesting and processing timber for local and export markets. We have international relations with the UN Zambia green jobs programme where we are collaborating with agencies such as FAO, UNCTAD, UNEP, ITC and ILO on matters of job creation, social security and social protection, forest certification, forest codes, sustainable enterprise development among other programmes.

Presentation Topic:

Zambia Wood Industry and Trade

Presentation Outline:

1. Forest Investment and Logging in Zambia
2. Forest Growing Stock from Natural Forests in Zambia
3. Forest Growing Stock from Forest Plantation in Zambia
4. Commercial Species available in Zambia
5. Commercial Growing Stocking and Annual Allowable Cut and Concession in Zambia
6. The future of Zambia timber trade

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