As China’s “Capital of the Wood Industry,” Suifenhe enjoys a strong competitive edge in the new landscape of China’s wood industry, providing a solid foundation for the development of Suifenhe’s wood industry.
In 2017, China's total wood imports amounted to 108.497 million cubic meters, of which 33.39 million cubic meters were imported from Russia, accounting for 31% of the country's total wood imports. In 2017, Suifenhe port imported 8 million cubic meters of Russian timber, representing one-thirteenth of China's total wood imports and one-fourth of the total timber imported from Russia. At the Suifenhe port, there are 98 timber harvesting enterprises operating outside China, while within China, Suifenhe city alone is home to 704 wood-processing enterprises, forming a cross-border wood industry cluster. The construction of the National Wood Processing and Trading Demonstration Base in the Border Cooperation Zone, as well as phases one through four of the Guolin Wood Industry City under the China Forestry Group, coupled with the surrounding wood industry region centered on the Changbai Mountain (603099) Forest Industry Group, the Heilongjiang Forest Industry Group, and the Yichun Forestry Group, further underscore Suifenhe's pivotal role in the wood industry and its solid foundation for building a complete wood industry value chain.
Suifenhe wood products are flowing into China's major wood product industry bases, forming a complete wood product industrial chain.
Statistical data show that the imported timber from Suifenhe City is primarily shipped to nine provinces and municipalities, including Shandong, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Henan, Heilongjiang, Hebei, and Beijing. It is the flow of Suifenhe’s wood products that has closely linked Suifenhe with national wood product industry clusters, thereby forming a complete wood product industrial chain. The development of China’s wood product industry would not have been possible without the significant contributions of Suifenhe, known as China’s “Wood Industry Capital.”
Faced with the nationwide upgrading of the wood products industry, Suifenhe has reached the best opportunity to take on industrial transfers.
With the introduction of national policies and the rising entry barriers—such as stricter environmental protection requirements—the entire wood products industry across China is facing an industrial upgrade. The industrial transfer driven by this upgrade primarily takes place along two main pathways: first, choosing regions that are closer to markets; and second, selecting areas that are nearer to resource sources. Suifenhe, endowed with resource advantages and located adjacent to Russia’s major timber-producing regions, presents a significant opportunity for attracting this industrial transfer.
The investment promotion for the Suifenhe wood industry should leverage its advantages in imported Russian timber resources and the emerging upstream industrial cluster advantages. It should persistently seek out solid-wood furniture manufacturers that utilize Russian timber. As the wood industry in Suifenhe is closely integrated with the nation’s leading wood products industrial bases, it is well-positioned to take on the relocation of China’s wood products industry.
Accelerate the establishment of a wood products industry alliance to promote the development of Suifenhe’s timber industry toward a full industrial chain.
The best and fastest way to attract investment in the wood industry and facilitate industrial relocation is to establish industry alliances with national wood industry bases. By transforming the original upstream-downstream supply-and-demand relationships within the industrial chain into mutually beneficial, collaborative partnerships for joint development, we can help these bases carry out industrial relocation and provide enterprises undergoing such relocation with a comprehensive business environment and services.
