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Pix4Free.org laying a solid foundation and making all-out efforts to basically
achieve modernisation.
It is also an important window for the wood-based panel
industry to shape new drivers of development and form new

competitive advantages.
The development of China's wood-based panel industry
is confronted with both opportunities and challenges, but the
favourable conditions outweigh the unfavourable ones.
The general trend of high-quality development in wood-
based panel industry has not changed and the ‘timing’ and
‘trend’ of development still creates an advantage.
Log imports from PNG, Russia, Solomon Isands, Germany Focusing on the ecological board industry, promoting the
and France declined. optimisation of varieties, consolidating the foundation of quality,

Due to quarantine issues with logs from the US, on 4 enhancing brand influence and driving the transformation and
March 2025 the General Administration of China Customs upgrading of wood-based panel industry towards high-value,
issued an announcement stating that it would immediately intelligent, green and functional directions are key in achieving
suspend the import of wood from the US. high-quality development.
This not only had a profound impact on the wood trade At present, the output of wood-based panel products
pattern between China and the US but also brought an in China generally shows a phenomenon of oversupply.
extremely obvious shock to the domestic wood industry in Especially in the particleboard industry there is a situation of

the US. overheated investment.
It has been reported that many sawmills in the southern The extremely rapid growth of particleboard production
United States have had to reduce production due to changes capacity has led to an overcapacity in a short period of
in demand, uncertainties in trade policies and various regulatory time. Resolving the temporary imbalance between supply and
barriers. demand in production capacity is the top priority.
It is suggested that more attention should be paid to
Wood-based panel Industry during ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ green and low-carbon development of wood-based panel
The output of wood-based panels in China was 349 million industry and it is believed that this will be a new track for the
cubic metres representing a year-on-year growth of four percent transformation and upgrading of panel enterprises.

in 2024. The consumption of wood-based panel products Experts suggest that wood-based panel production should
was approximately 330 million cubic metres, increasing by be determined by sales to bring prices back to rationality. The
3.5 percent year-on-year. importance of product quality and development of high-value
The output value of China's wood-based panel products products along with serious analysis of markets could lead
has generally shown an increasing trend over the past 10 years to expanded applications of wood-based panel.
with an average annual growth rate of 3 percent. China has Through the dual efforts of policy innovation and resource
become one of the world's largest producers, consumers and integration enterprises could promote the transformation of

traders of wood and bamboo processing products. industries to the advanced form of processing and diversified
The period of the 15th Five-Year Plan is a crucial time for integration.