Furniture export growth but also for how long

From the opening in Shanghai on the 10th of the Ninth China International Furniture Fair on that in January this year on -7, China exported 4.01 billion U.S. dollars of furniture than the 30.6 percent increase over the same period last year; last year, China exported 5.42 billion U.S. dollars of furniture than the 36.5 percent growth in 2001, 52.5 percent of which goes to the United States. As a result of over-reliance on the U.S. market and the risk of facing anti-dumping, many importers and exporters can not help but ask: "China's furniture export growth but also for how long?"

Furniture can become a new force of China's exports, and foreign investment in large-scale furniture industry in China is inseparable, and our abundant cheap labor and land prices, the developed countries a larger furniture market capacity and industrial restructuring, China's furniture export of high-speed growth of internal and external factors.

To Shanghai as an example, last year exported 394 million U.S. dollars of furniture than the 47.5 percent growth in 2001. 2001 -2002, the city's new foreign investment more than 110 furniture companies. Sweden, the United States, Singapore and other countries will be China, as many foreign investors, "a smaller, high-output" production base, and some simply a large-scale procurement in China to make it in their respective countries and regions more competitive furniture sales.

Furniture Association of China won the Secretary-General Cao Chao believes that if the trend of economic globalization and to face up to the furniture industry in performance, not simply in order to protect the interests of local businesses and the abuse of the WTO anti-dumping, special protection, such as rules, China's furniture exports to follow the normal development of the productive forces trajectory, in recent years will continue to maintain rapid growth. And setting up joint production enterprises and sales company, is to allow the importing country the recognition and support for China's furniture industry is an important way.

In addition to diversified sources of foreign investment in China and foster greater integration with independent intellectual property rights research and development of furniture design, learning and mastering the advanced concepts of marketing, it is to decide the future of China's furniture industry and export the key to the fate.