Study On The Issues Of China's Wood Resources Security

Healthy and stable development of national economy depends on the important strategic material resources security. As a big country of timber production, consumption and trade, china's level of timber resources security have seriously affected the overall level of the sustainable development of forestry industry.The study systematically summarizes the theory of resource economics, industy security, ecological security and trade security, establishes theoretical system for evaluation of resource security under the framework of resources economics. The system has some theoretical significance to systematically explain the problem of endophytism of resource security, economic growth. It explains the problems of ecological externalities due to resource use.The study builds a comprehensive assessment model with reasonable system named RIET-"Resource-Industry-Ecology-Trade" to solve the industry security issues caused by timber resources security, the ecological security issuess caused by resource use, the trade security issuess caused by resource acquisition.It analyses China's timber resources security by a combination of qualitative and quantitative method.I.The situation of resource security under the resource endowment condition showed that the dynamics of Chinese investment in natural forests and plantations promoted the steady increment of the forest area, forest cover and net increase of forest area.But the problem is that the rigid demand of timber resources due to the rapid development of the overall national economy is far greater than the growth of domestic resources.Simultaneously,the demand for timber resources is far from acquiring from domestic supply because of the defective quality and the unreasonable structure of forest resources.There is much to worry about resource security.II.The supply of resources is the basis for the development of forestry industry.The security situation of China's timber industry caused by the resource shortages shows that the long-established development pattern of processing trade is severely constrained by the level of resource endowment. Because of the shortage of resources,Wood processing, furniture, paper and other leading industries are in security risks of varying degrees.The level of comparative advantage of China's timber industry is gradually reducing.Industries depend on the international markets for its development formed low-level patterns which are resource-intensive and labor-intensive.There's much to consider about the security of the industries that is been resource constrainted,it makes an urgent request to adjust the industrial layout and industrial structure.III.As the domestic supply capacity is limited, the import of international timber resources has become an important means of supply.However,China is facing the international pressure "China is the source of forest destruction" due to the great deal import of resources requires by the processing trade.The study of ecological security of China's use of international timber resources shows that:on the global scale,the impact of forest ecological footprint caused by China's imports from the intercontinental timber resources does not exceed the carrying capacity of forest ecology therefore China is not a serious threat to the overall ecological safety of the world's forest resources.And from the perspective of specific importing countries,ecological security assessment indexes of China's timber imports of Russian,Papua New Guinea, Gabon and New Zealand are within a safe level.However,to a certain extent,China's timber imports of Malaysia has increased its ecological pressures of forest resources.From a perspective of responsible use of international resources,China should attach importance to ecological security of timber resources.â…£.The trade security issues of import resources.China became the world's largest exporter of forest products and importer of timber resources in 2009,the pattern of import and export on a big scale has serious trade security risks.The trade security risks of the forest products export are increasing, it can find expressions in several aspects such as high product uniformity,the weakened status of comparative advantage of exports,the increasing welfare losses of industrial workers and the high market concentration of exports.The normalization of trade friction that the export products experienced and the difficulties in risk evade further increase the trade security risk of the export of China's forest products.From the perspective of resources import,the issues that China relies on some major importing countries for its resources and the import preferences of some important species are becoming increasingly serious.Considering the international environmental protection and major country's restrictions on exports of strategic resources,the ability to obtain international resources is declining seriously.The trade security issues of import resources become more prominent.The study on the security issues derived from the shortage of wood resources in China gives proposals on follow-up research such as the adjustment of industrial structure, the optimization of the industrial layout, the development model transformation of the processing trade and the promotion in wood replacement in resource utilization strategies.