On March 22, 2016, the press conference of the 6th China
Global Wood Trade Conference with the theme of “Journey to Wuhan, Journey to
Future” was held successfully in Beijing. President Liu Nengwen from China
Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association, President Tao Yiming from
China Wood Importers Committee, Mr. Kaspars Rožkalns, Counsellor of
Economic and Commercial Affairs, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, Mr. Kai Merivuori, Managing Director of Finish Sawmills Association,
Project Manager Mr. Jyrki Mantere of Wood from Finland, Mr. Gong Zehe, Head of
Industrial Development Division of Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau, Board Chairman Liu Guanghui and General Manager Luo Kan of
Hubei Fuhan Wood Industry Co., Ltd., Board Chairman Wang Lijun and Deputy
Chairman Xiao Tingzhu of Wuhan Asia-Europe Logistics Co., Ltd., Director Xie Qi
of “One Belt and One Road” Multimodal Transport Office, General Manager Qin
Yuan of Kaidi Logistics Co., Ltd. as well as representatives from related
representative institutions in China, China Wood Importers Committee and import
and export companies participated in this conference.
President Tao Yiming pointed out in his welcome speech that China is not
only a large developing country, but also the largest trade and consumption
country of timber and wood products in the world. According to statistics, the
import and export trade volume of China’s timber and wood products increased to
USD74.64 billion in 2015 from USD35.07 billion in 2006, increased by 110%
during the ten years; wood consumption also rose to 550 million m3 in 2015 from 337 million m3 in 2006, increased by 60% . Despite of
large economic downturn pressure in 2015, the timber import still stood at
82.64 million m3, falling by 6% on a year-on-year basis. For a long
time in the future, China will witness sustainable growth in the demand for
timber and wood products due to the fact that China is a country short of
timber resources and the natural forest protection policy is put in place.
Meanwhile, China’s per capita wood consumption is only 0.4 m3 per
year, so there is still a long way to go before it reaches the world average
wood consumption level of 0.7 m3 per year.
Ms. Shen Wei, Information and Statistics Consultant
of China Wood Importers Committee under China Timber & Wood Products
Distribution Association, put forward in the China Timer
Market Report 2015 that affected by many factors, the prices of timbers
imported by China in 2015 witnessed overall decline. Based on long-term
monitoring and market observation, the future economic growth point will appear
in the timber structure as well as the second decoration of existing residences
and furniture updating. The construction of infrastructures in Central China is
in full swing, and the development of new towns in rural areas and urban
shantytowns transformation will drive the demands for furniture and home
furnishing.
Division Head Gong
Zehe introduced the unique regional advantage of Wuhan and developing timber
industry. In recent years, the artificial board and furniture enterprises from
the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other places have been successively
transferring to Hubei, which has strongly promoted the rapid development of the
provincial timer industry. The furniture industry in Hubei is growing
dramatically with the annual production value of its furniture industry up to
RMB50 billion. At present, Hubei’s timber industry is in the development stage, featured with rising
total demand, quality improvement, obvious contradiction between supply and
demand and growing import demand. Gong sent out the kind invitations to the
global timber and wood product enterprises and related institutions on behalf
of Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau and the provincial timber industry.
Board Chairman Liu
Guanghui stated that Fuhan, a leading enterprise with a long history and
long-term prospect in Hubei province and even the whole country, will spare no
efforts to contribute to the “Made in China 2025” development strategy,
proactively expand overseas timber trade business and make the global layout in
the future, strengthen the support of international trade business for the
timber industry, gradually upgrade itself from a self-lumbering and self-sales
enterprise to an investment and financing trade one with integrating the
industry through the fund platform, strongly promote the R&D upgrading of
such new type of building materials as artificial board and structural wood,
deeply boost the development and application of green and energy-saving
buildings and set up a 100-billion-level international low-carbon hi-tech
industrial park and national strategic timber reserve base. As the organizer of
this conference, Fuhan Wood Industry also warmly welcomes the friends from all
over the world to Wuhan, Hubei Province.
Ms. Wang Yiling,
Marketing Director of Wuhan Asia-Europe Logistics Co., Ltd., introduced the issues
regarding the international timber outflow channel running through the whole
Russia and extending from the east and west of Tomsk to Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg,
Moscow and St. Petersburg respectively to be opened in 2016 and the first-grade
timber wholesale market to be established in Yangluogang area.
General Manager Qin Yuan of Kaidi Logistics Co., Ltd. explained the biomass energy strategy of the domestic leading biomass
energy enterprise---Sunshine Kaidi starting from a tree. Closely combining with
the timber industry, low-carbon economy and environmental friendly energy
projects are of great significance in achieving the goal of “Renaissance of the
Great Power” and finally solving the fossil energy substitution issue and
sustainable development of human beings.
Managing Director Kai
Merivuori of Finish Sawmills Association announced to continuously strengthen
cooperation in the 6th China Global Wood Trade Conference to be held
on September 13 and 14 based on the project of Wood from Finland.
Mr. Kaspars Rožkalns from Investment and Development Agency of Latvia also announced that a
larger scale of delegation will be organized this year to participate in the 6th China Global Wood Trade Conference on the basis of cooperation in 2015.
In the press conference, President Liu Nengwen
of China Timber & Wood Products Distribution Association, Board Chairman Liu Guanghui of Hubei Fuhan Wood Industry Co., Ltd.,
Board Chairman Wang Lijun of Wuhan Asia-Europe Logistics Co., Ltd. and Mr. Qin
Yuan, the representative of Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group Co., Ltd. signed
the cooperation agreements.
The 6th China Global Wood Trade
Conference (GWT China), hosted by China Wood Importers Committee, Hubei
FuhanWood Industry Co.,Ltd, supported by Hubei Forestry Bureau, Wuhan
Asia-Europe Logistics Co.,Ltd, Kaidi New Energy Co. Ltd, Finnish Sawmills
Association, Wood from Finland program, will be held in Wuhan during Sept.
13–14, 2016.
In 2011, with the
purpose of enhancing exchange and cooperation in timber and wood product area,
building up mutual winning bridge for international timber industries and
jointly promoting the healthy development of the world's timber and wood
product trade, GWT China Conference, a
platform taking China as the foothold and covering information exchange and
commercial cooperation of global major timber producing countries has been established.
And became an annual event where global
wood traders meet in China, also an extraordinary opportunity to learn the
latest Chinese and global wood markets information, and to expand business
network.
Start from strategic
height and practical problems, study and explore a sustainable development path
for world timber and wood product industry. GWT China gathers together both
forefront insiders, senior research fellows and industrial experts from all
over the world. Till now, more than 400 companies from nearly 30 countries
established or expanded its trade channels in China
via business matching.
After five years of development, the GWT
China Conference has gradually shaped a "4+1" comprehensive
development mode by taking high quality conferences and symposiums as the main
activities and direct negotiation and creating of commercial values as the
purpose as well as supplemented by selected exhibitions and industrial
inspections. It has become the only high-end conference themed by timber trade
and has gained wide recognition at both home and abroad.
In 2016, the
6th GWT China Conference will continue discuss the opportunities and
challenges of the global timber and wood products industry and firstly into the
mid-
and downstream businesses including interior decoration, furniture, wooden
window and door and also wooden construction. It is also viewed as a great
opportunity to start the communication and cooperation between the related
companies and organizations from Hubei and all over the world.
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