Present Status of Development of Plywood Industry Cluster in China

With the rapid development of the plywood industry in China, there have appeared four plywood clusters, which are located respectively in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Hebei provinces, producing nearly 70% of total amount of plywood in China. This paper analyzed the product sales, company distributions, economical power and advantage in each cluster area, as well as positive and negative effects of plywood industry cluster on economics and plywood manufacturing based on investigation in Jiashan, Pizhou, Linyi and Zuogezhuang districts. The results indicated that there are two unstable product ends, the key problems of plywood industry in China, in plywood industry line in the clusters. The authors suggest that governments, technical departments and associations pay more attention to those, and take effective measurements for keeping the plywood industry cluster developing towards further stability.