Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Study on China's Wood-Based Panel Market Outlook for the Years 2000-2010













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Outlook for the Years
2000-2010

by
Lu Wenming
Associate Professor and Deputy Head
Information Analysis Research Department
Institute of Scientific and Technological Information
Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, P. R China

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/40(b)

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
May 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.

This report comes under Workplan Number E26.1.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

ABSTRACT

1. PREFACE

2. DESCRIPTION

2.1 Product Classification
2.2 Sources of Data

2.2.1 Basic Data
2.2.2 Socio-economic Data

2.3 Time Span

2.3.1 Time Span for Basic Data
2.3.2 Time Span for Outlook and Projection Data

2.4 Unit for the Import and Export Volume of the Basic Data

2.4.1 Plywood
2.4.2 Veneer
2.4.3 Particleboard, MDF and Hardboard

2.5 Unit for the Import and Export Value in the Basic Data
2.6 Trade Volume in Terms of Provinces

3. METHODOLOGY

3.1 Statistical Method
3.2 Regression Method for Outlook Projection

4. RESULTS

4.1 Plywood

4.1.1 Status Quo in the Early 1990s
4.1.2 Outlook for the Year 2010

4.2 Veneer
4.3 Particleboard

4.3.1 Status Quo in the Early 1990s
4.3.2 Outlook for the Year 2010

4.4 Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)

4.4.1 Status Quo in the Early 1990s
4.4.2 Outlook for the Year 2010

4.5 Hardboard

4.5.1 Status Quo in the Early 1990s
4.5.2 Outlook for the Year 2010

4.6 Summary Table

5. DISCUSSION

5.1 Plywood
5.2 Particleboard
5.3 Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
5.4 Hardboard
5.5 Conclusion

6. REFERENCES