Analysis And Countermeasures Of Wood-based Panel Industry Development In China

Compared to the international wood-based panels industry, our plantation is rich in cheap labor, and huge domestic consumer market. Coupled with the rapid development of wood-based panels machinery industry, especially the support of national preferential policies,China's wood based panel industry has become the world's wood-based panels production, consumption and import and export superpower in recent years.In the first decade of this century, the average annual growth rate of wood-based panel production is about 20%. In 2009, plywood production was up to 1.1 billion m3 and the number of enterprises was more than six thousand. With the development of wood-based panel industry,some problems has risen, such as the irrational product structure, low-tech products, low enterprise management level, low rate of qualified products,resource shortages and low industrial concentration.Thus, to improve the overall level of China's wood based panel industry, we must improve the implementation of technological content of products, expande the scale of production; standard operation and management according to the actual situation of the industry. Specifically, the paper focuses on three issues:what is the trend of industrial organization, industrial structure, industrial layout and the industrial competitiveness of China's plywood industry,etc since the reform and opening up; what is the drive mechanism behind the industry? how should this industry develop in the future?This paper analysised the development process of China's wood-based panel industry and generalized the features and problems of wood-based panels industry by the methods of descriptive statistics, spatial statistics and microscopic survey which is based on the comprehensive and systematic review of existing literature.On this basis, the paper researched the current market structure, market behavior and market performance of the China's plywood industry with the industrial economic analysis methods such as industrial organization theory, industrial distribution theory and theory of industrial structure. Application of industrial competitiveness model, regression analysis, gray correlation test, spatial econometric models to analyze the factors which influents wood-based panel industry and measures the relevant factors. Finally, the paper puts up some organization policiesd sector management measures which fit for the development of China's plywood industry and may contribute to good market performance.The main research areas include the following five aspects:Firstly, the paper reviews the literature of existing research and introduces the theories of industrial economics, the application in forestry industry and wood-based panel industry.Secondly, the paper analyzes the history and current situation on the plywood industry development since the founding and smmarizes the development of characteristic stages at different levels and explored their development problems.Thirdly, the paper sets up the model of empirical analysis which analyzes the wood-based panel production resources, economic, market, technology, policy,location and other factors.Building spatial econometric model and industrial competitiveness model for empirical analysis of wood-based panel industry development factors.Finally, this article mainly illustrates the conclusions and suggestions. According to the theory and empirical analysis, it summarizs the brief research findings in full text and puts forward suggestions of Chinese wood-based panel industry.The results show that variation characteristics of wood-based panel industry in China was obvious.Since the reform and opening up, especially since the 1990s, wood-based panel industry was to flourish.With a series of related factors, the significant changes in terms of volume and layout have taken place, clearly showing strong west to east trend.However, market organizations is unreasonable such as smaller enterprises,low market concentration and uneven distribution of productive forces.The board structure development and raw material supply is not matching.And the development of several major exporting wood-based panels and products is very unstable.Plywood depend on foreign products highly.Management of the entire industry and macro-control work is unreasonable.These are the reasons for low performance of China's wood-based panels industry. Wood-based panel industry can make use of the opportunity of national economic restructuring and the product structure adjustment to carry out the work of industry consolidation, support the superior and eliminating the inferior, improve the industry technology level and management level and product quality and increase product competitiveness at home and abroad.