The Development Trend and Characteristics of Wooden Forest Products in the World and the Enlightenment

Based on the data of FAO Yearbook of Forest Products since 1970, this paper analyzes the characteristics and development trend of wooden products in the world. With closely relating to the development of the world economy, the trade of wooden products in the world has been rising in the fluctuation. Europe is in the leading position in the world's wooden forest product trade, and Asia will become the world's demand center of wooden forest product. The product trade of wooden forest is mainly concentrated in the developed countries, and the developing countries are growingly important in the world's wooden forest product trade. Various types of wooden forest product grow in different rate, the proportion of primary products is continuiously reducing, and the proportion of deep processed products is constantly increasing. The proportion of log trade in log production and in consumption is not high, the impact of environmental protection on the world's wooden forest product trade is becoming increasingly profound and extensive, and thus the products from plantation forest have gradually become the major part of world's wooden forest product trade. Under such situation, China should appropriately control the trade growth rate and scale of wooden forest products, change the export-oriented processing trade pattern of "both sides abroad and large-volume import and export", restrict the massive and rapid imports of raw material products, focus on improving the quality and the grade of export products, increase the added value, vigorously develop plantation forest for improving the domestic timber supply, and transform from profit-seeking trade into supplememtary trade while rationally utilizing the foreign timber only to meet the actual domestic timber demand.