According to the Chinese government’s environmental policy called the “Three-Year Plan on Defending the Blue Sky” industrial enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Provinces will be required to present plans to ‘green’ production lines by the end of September 2018.  High risk enterprises including foundries, home furnishing producers, woodbased panel producers, paper makers, and chemical plants in 28 cities will be required to stop production to undertake refurbishment between 1 October 2018 and 31 March 2019.  Forest industry enterprises will be affected by this new policy of environmental protection and face huge challenges.  ...