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The Ganzhou International Land Port Station accepts China- decrease of approximately 800 enterprises compared to the
Europe freight trains with European spruce and fir. Nankang end of 2024.
was neither along the border nor by the sea. In the past it The total production capacity is approximately 248 million
took three months to transport timber from Russia at a cost cubic metres per year, representing a 12 percent increase

as high as RMB4,000 per cubic metre. compared to the end of 2024.
Today, relying on the China-Europe freight trains, the In the first half of 2025 three fibreboard production lines
transport time has been shortened to 14 days and the overall (including one continuous flat press line) was completed and
logistics cost has been reduced by 18 percent. put into operation adding a production capacity of 520,000
Relying on the "port + bonded + cross-border" linkage cubic metres per year.
model of Ganzhou International Land Port, Nankang furniture By the end of June 2025 228 fibreboard manufacturing
has appeared in international markets. enterprises in China had 252 fibreboard production lines and
It has been exported to countries in Europe, America, the factories were distributed across 21 provinces (municipalities
Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East with overseas and autonomous regions) with a total annual production

orders signed exceeding RMB5 billion in 2024. capacity of 40.64 million cubic metres.
Nankang has successfully established a complete industrial The net reduction in fibreboard production capacity was
supply chain integrating wood trading, design and research and 1.19 million cubic metres representing a further decrease of
development, intelligent manufacturing and logistics distribution. around three percent compared to the end of 2024.
There are over 10,000 furniture enterprises and more than Of the factories, there were 122 continuous flat pressure
500,000 employees in Nankang. lines with a combined production capacity of 27.42 million
In 2024 the Ganzhou International Land Port has operated cubic metres per year.

over 1,600 China-Europe (Asia) freight trains covering more The fibreboard industry showed a further downward
than 100 cities in five Central Asian countries and over 20 trend in the number of enterprises, production lines and total
European countries. production capacity. There are five fibreboard production lines
under construction across the country with a combined annual
Wood-based panel industry in first half 2025 production capacity of 1.18 million cubic metres.
According to the Industrial Development Planning Institute of In the first half of 2025 9 particleboard production lines
the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, China's (including 7 continuous flat pressing lines) were put into
plywood industry has declined in terms of number of enterprises operation adding production capacity of 3.27 million cubic
but there has been an increase in total production capacity. metres per year.

The fibreboard industry shows a trend of a decline in the
number of enterprises and a continued contraction in total
production capacity. Public Domain Pictures
The particleboard industry has witnessed a slight decline
in the number of enterprises and a slowdown in the growth
of total production capacity in the first half of 2025.
By the end of June 2025, there were around 5,200 plywood

product manufacturing enterprises in China distributed across
26 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions), a