Classification, Production, and Carbon Stock of Harvest Wood Products in China from 1961 to 2012
Bioresources (SCI)
BioResources (ISSN: 1930-2126) 9(3)4311-4322
Copyright © College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, 2014
Hongqiang Yang,a,b,c Xufang Zhang,b,c and Yinxing Hong a,*
China boasts a large production and a large import and export volume of harvested wood products (HWP). The production, trade volume and carbon stock of HWP can be used as valuable reference data for Chinese economic growth and for China to participate in climatic negotiation. According to the HWP classification standard of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), this research thesis counts the production of several major Chinese HWP products from 1961 to 2012. As the result indicates, China boasts a large production of HWP; The total forestry production value of China reached RMB 3,950 billion in 2012; The total forestry production value and the HWP production of China have always been rising steadily. By applying the carbon accounting model of HWP under the approach of stock change, this research thesis has estimated and analyzed the carbon stock of Chinese HWP from 1961 to 2012. As the result indicates, the development of Chinese HWP inventories from 1961 to 2012 can be roughly divided into three periods, showing a general uptrend; The total carbon stock of Chinese HWP in 2012 was 888.01 million tones; The annual increment of Chinese HWP in 2012 was 50.78 million tones. Therefore, HWP has made an important contribution to the positive growth of Chinese carbon stock.
Keywords: Harvested wood products; China; Classification; Production; Carbon stock
Contact information: a: Center for the Yangtze River Delta’s Socioeconomic Development, Nanjing University, No. 22, Hankou Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210093, China; b: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, No. 159, Longpan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China; c: Research Center for Economics and Trade in Forest Products of the State Forestry Administration, No. 159, Longpan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China; *Corresponding author: yhqnfu@aliyun.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study is supported by the China MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Project No.13YJAZH114), the China Post-doctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2012M521058), and the Jiangsu Province Qinglan Project of China (Grant No. 2012JSQLP).
