The Monthly Data Statistics on Wood and Its Products

1.2.1 The Monthly Data on Industry Related Economic Indicators

l From January to May, the forestry fixed asset investment decreased 3.3% year on year.
l From January to May, the fixed assets investment in wood processing and wood/bamboo product industry increased 5.7% year on year; the income from the main businesses was RMB 351.21 billion, up 4.6% year on year; the total profit was RMB 14.80 billion, down 1.5% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 20.85 billion, down 0.1% year on year. 
l From January to May, the fixed assets investment in the furniture manufacture industry increased 8.4% year on year; the income from the main businesses was RMB 270.51 billion, up 3.7% year on year; the total profit was RMB 15.55 billion, up 13.5% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 71.11 billion, up 3.5% year on year.
l From January to May, the fixed assets investment in the paper and paper product industry decreased 6.8% year on year; the income from the main businesses was RMB 541.01 billion, down 1.2% year on year; the total profit was RMB 22.15 billion, down 30.3% year on year; the export delivery value was RMB 23.93 billion, up 7.4% year on year.
l In May, the production of machine-made paper and cardboard was 10.65 million tons, up 3.0% year on year; from January to May, the total production was 48.66 million tons, up 0.3% year on year.
l In May, the newsprint production was 105,000 tons, down 16.7% year on year; from January to May, the total production was 498,000 tons, down 23.5% year on year.
l From January to May, the sales area of the commercial housing was 555.18 million square meters, down 1.6% year on year; the existing home sales area was 84.25 million square meters, down 19.9% year on year and the sales area of the forward delivery housing was 470.93 million square meters, up 2.6% year on year. The sales area of commercial residential buildings was 487.08 million square meters which was 87.73% of the total the commercial housing sales area.
l From January to May, the total investment in real estate was RMB 4607.49 billion, up 11.2% from the same period of last year. The new real estate construction area was 797.84 million square meters, up 10.5% year on year; the completed area was 267.07 million square meters, down 12.4% year on year.
l From January to May, the commodity retail sales of the furniture, building and decoration materials of the units above designated size reached RMB 71.18 billion and RMB 72.99 billion, up 5.1% and 4.2% respectively year on year.
l In May, China’s large scale building material and home furnishing stores’ sales were RMB 93.63 billion, up 10.88% month on month and up 2.77% year on year. From January to May, the total sales were RMB 378.86 billion, up 2.99% year on year.
l In May, China’s wood and paper pulp producers’ purchase prices decreased by 0.3% month on month, down 2.5% year on year; from January to May, the purchase prices decreased by 0.7% year on year.  
l In May, China’s wood processing producers’ factory prices raised by 1.5% year on year; the artificial wood increased by 1.5% year on year; wooden products decreased by 0.1%; the wooden furniture factory prices increased by 1.5% year on year; the pulp factory prices increased by 0.3% year on year; paper-making decreased by 8.3% and paper products decreased by 1.3%.

1.2.2 The Monthly Data on the Wood Imported at Different Ports

l Due to the increasing Sino-Europe trains, Manzhouli port imported more than 4.5 million cubic meters of Russian timber, worth 4.36 billion yuan, in the first five months of this year. 

1.2.3 The Data on the International Wood Market

l The Laos government bans the export of all unprocessed timber, wherever the timber comes from, even from secondary forests. The 200, 000 cubic meters a year logging permits the government had previously issued has been abolished.
l Since July 1, 2019, the timber harvested from Irkutsk region will be 100% transacted through the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange, eliminating middlemen.
l In 2018, the export value of softwood timber in Russia was about 92 million USD, with a year-on-year growth of nearly 38%, among which the northwest federal district accounted for 48%; the export of hardwood timber was 2.9 million USD, 2.7 times more than that of 2017, accounting for 47% of the total exports from the central federal district.
l In the first three months of 2019, the total volume of Swedish softwood exports fell 3.66% to 3.1 million cubic meters, the export value fell 6.12% to 806.2 million USD. The export volume to China fell 34.5% to 163,400 cubic meters, while export value fell 40.0% to 34.5 million USD.
l In the first half of 2019, Vietnam's total export of forest products reached about 5.3 billion USD, up nearly 20% year-on-year. In the first half year, Vietnam's artificial forest harvestable area reached 105,000 hectares, the production reached 9.7 million cubic meters, up 4.86% year on year.