Study On The Demand For Wood Products In China

Currently, as the "ecological civilization", which puts the focus on forestry ecological benefits, is vigorously promoting, there should be no ignoring of the basic properties of the forestry that it provides wood products for the social and economic development. Wood products, an important product offered by forestry, is an important aspect of forestry economic effectiveness. And because of the renewable and recycling characteristics, wood products are laid as the indispensable important subsistence in the country’s economy construction and people’s lives improvement. In recent 2 years, as the "Twelfth Five" coming to an end and "Thirteen Five" is coming on the occasion, the national socio-economic development has entered new normal, studying the changes in demand for wood products and analyzing the factors which influencing the demand is important for making policies to ensure the sustainability of forestry resource and satisfy the demand from social development.Based on the previous study, application of elastic economics and gray correlation analysis method are used in this paper to research the correlation between indicators that reflect the economic development and demand for wood products. And then, how the national economic development and people’s living standards improving impact the general law of demand for wood products are found. In addition, the demand for wood products in "thirteen Five" period was forecasted and influencing factors were analyzed in this paper.The results showed that at the end "Thirteen Five", the wood products consumption is over 800 million cubic meters. The reaction to the GDP growth in the total demand for wood products is positive; micro-economic indicators, the rate of urbanization strongly boost the demand for wood products. Aspects affect the demand for wood products, such as environmental policy, population, forest resources, economic restructuring and other factors, most of which that could lift demand, and based on the characteristics of the timber of the product itself, as China’s ancient traditional materials, but also the raw material resources of green, low-carbon characteristics, can be favored under environmental requirements and will have eternal broad market demand. The key is whether standing on the strategic level, to take science, fine, innovative management of our forest resources utilization, if in that case, timber supply will increase, thereby boosting demand for wood products.During the "Thirteen Five" period, as the country’s economic and social development has entered a new normal, coupled with the changing international situation, our county should do more to make ourselves strong, while using of existing resources and enhancing innovation, to optimize the existing production technology, reform forestry industry pattern, so are the strategy to meet the needs of wood products in the people’s living standards improving and economic development. At from now on to a long period of time in the future, we need to explore new channels of imported wood, build the national wood reserves, and then we could ensure the safety of China’s wood, deal with changes in demand for wood products in social and economic development,...