Russian Logs In China: The Softwood Commodity Chain & Chinese Economic Development
By Song Weiming, Cheng Baodong, Zhang Shengdong and Meng Xianggang View PublicationBurgeoning domestic consumption and a rapid increase in international demand for China’s low-cost manufactured wood products, in a nation with very limited per capita forest resources, has fueled a particularly dramatic rise in China’s forest products imports. In one decade, China rose from seventh to second greatest importer of forest products worldwide and is now a top consumer of industrial roundwood. Of all countries exporting to China, Russia is currently the top supplier of timber products by ,value as well as volume.