There are around 5,500 major enterprises manufacturing plywood in China. The total production capacity of plywood by these enterprises in 2017 was 189 million cubic metres and production is distributed in 27 provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities.  The output of China’s plywood in 2017 was valued at RMB438 billion, a year on year decline of 3%, the first decline in ten years. Plywood accounted for 64% of all wood-based panel output in 2017. Of the total, production of wood plywood was 157 million cubic metres, bamboo plywood 5.7 million cubic metres, blockboard 17 million ...