1978, the Third Plenum of the Party’s work began to shift the focus, putting an end to class struggle as the key link, enter wholeheartedly engage in a new era of economic development; on the discussion of the criterion of truth, liberation of thought, get rid of the “two any and all “dogma and cult of personality; get rid of life tenure for leading cadres for the healthy development of china’s economy provides a good political environment. With the development of reform and opening up, the central government issued a series from a planned economy to market economy, policies and regulations, greatly promoted China’s sustained and rapid economic development. Well-known economist Mao Yushi said, “whether it is vertical and compared to other stages of chinese history, or horizontal and India, the United States and other countries compared to China’s reform and opening up in the past 30 years, creating a huge increase in wealth, we can say 3000 years, not the changing situation. ”

    China’s furniture industry for 30 years by the east wind of reform and opening up access to an unprecedented development, creating sustainable high-speed development miracle. The beginning of reform and opening up the national gross output value of furniture, about 13 million, since 2003, China’s furniture industry has entered a rapid development track, the furniture industry in China in 2004 GDP reached 376 billion yuan to 2007, GDP of China Furniture Industry have been 5,400 billion yuan, an increase of 245 times, more than 30% maintained the pace of development. Chinese furniture exports in 2007 exceeded 20 billion U.S. dollars. Significant progress in the Furniture Industry in the development of China’s manufacturing industry is a microcosm of the inevitable result of reform and opening up.

1 Review of Furniture in short supply

The 20th century, 60 to 70 years, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the emergence of social unrest due to normal socio-economic activities and industrial production are affected to different degrees of damage, which also affected during this period of furniture production and consumption, and also affected the furniture industry and the simultaneous development of the world’s furniture industry.

According to the 1972 Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, GuangZhou, Nanjing, Shenyang, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Xi’an and other cities in a survey of 16 centers in 1966, furniture production is 150 million pieces in 1972 to 93 million pieces, down 38%. As furniture production stagnant, the market supply of a serious shortage of furniture shops there day and night, throughout the long lines of furniture buying. Even the old style, low-quality products also “no worries about the emperor’s daughter to marry.”

Caused by the reasons for supply of furniture, in addition to plant transformation, capacity reasons for the decline, the more important reason is that the shortage of economic times, timber as a strategic material and fully integrated into national plans, furniture companies want to produce more furniture has become a bricks without straw. 16 major urban centers, according to the statistics of the timber allocated to the furniture industry by 1966, 220,000 cubic meters fell in 1972 to 12.5 million cubic meters, a decrease of 43%, at that time the conditions of low social productive forces, in order to steel on behalf of the wood, with plastic on behalf of the wood it is impossible, thus severely restricting the furniture industry. The shortage of state until the early 80s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the supply of timber supply from a planned to a market gradually adjust the supply of furniture, a seller’s market was gradually eased.

2 role in promoting international industrial transfer

The late 20th century and the beginning of this century, is an international industrial restructuring and shift the peak period in the middle of the reform and opening up the implementation of national policy for the developed countries and regions of the furniture industry, provide opportunities for the transfer to China, China’s relatively abundant and cheap land and labor resources, to accept the transfer of foreign furniture industry has provided conditions and timely introduction of a series of preferential policies also speeded up the scale and speed of this shift.

In July 1979, the Hong Kong peak Furniture Group Chairman Mr. Wu Rongquan first came to China’s reform and opening up of shenzhen City, investment in overseas Chinese farms, founded China’s first panel furniture factory – Shenzhen Huasheng Furniture Co., Ltd. In September the same year, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of two light metal belongs to a small business with the Hong Kong joint venture factory to create elegant big bed music bed home furniture factory.

In China, the east coast of Yantai City, Yantai timber companies and Japanese joint venture to create a furniture wooden furniture factory in Yantai, which is half of my 80 years appeared in China’s second plate furniture factory. With the success of these enterprises in China, followed by China’s furniture industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan to mainland China started large-scale shift to “Taiwan l” as the representative of the Taiwan-funded furniture enterprises is established in Dongguan Dalingshan functional, and the supporting coordination of furniture production and export base. Still later, the developed and well-known brands of furniture manufacturers, furniture, paint, furniture, machinery, furniture, hardware fittings, furniture, marketing companies have begun to settle in China, and constantly expanded. For a time, China became the world’s furniture industry, the best choice for the transfer.

Foreign-funded enterprises or joint ventures furniture settled in China, bringing with them new furniture category, style, style, new timber, new technology and equipment, new technology and management, so that self-locking closure of three decades of China’s furniture industry refreshing . It will be recalled Shenzhen Huasheng furniture & decoration co production, they all particleboard furniture, 32mm disassembly structure, the new 32mm standard connector, non-wood’s Edge section, cutting saws, large-scale banding machine. As well as the multi-row drilling and other new equipment and new technology, the industry has attracted nationwide attention, and for a pilgrimage-like rush to Shenzhen to visit the study, which is also known as Mr. Wu Rongquan Washington, chairman of China’s godfather of modern panel furniture.

In the foreign joint venture, led by 80s second half of the light system is only the introduction of more than 200 of panel furniture production lines, of which the Ministry of Light Industry, one of the four major furniture wooden furniture factory in Nanjing to introduce the size and quality can be called a Model Engineering, Chief Engineer, Mr. Yang Wenjia contributed. 90 years after the transfer with the furniture industry, expansion of the scale, they bring new products, new equipment, new technology to further promote the industrialization of China’s furniture industry and information technology.

3 private furniture industry and the emergence and rise of

The late 70s of last century, Anhui Xiaogang Village has been forced out of them hungry to be the central contract system, the default 1982 through-1983 was fully open, and the disintegration of people’s communes in 1984. In 1979, a large number of educated young people back to the city to the countryside, in the context of employment can not be solved, the city began a pilot self-employed. 80 mid-step, Zhejiang Xin Yancheng shirt factory generates the banner of private enterprises in 1986 by “? Beijing timber industry” magazine, Xi’an “furniture and Life” magazine and the Central South Forestry University jointly organized by the national director of furniture industry renewal of knowledge seminar, there are more than 160 business leaders attended the furniture, it was invited Bu Xinsheng was the topic of reform, enterprise restructuring talks to the participants with great inspiration and encouragement.

The twentieth century, the late 80s and early 90s is an individual and private furniture business growth, in particular, is located in the forefront of reform and opening up The Pearl River Delta, such as the North Hao and Longjiang, Shunde Town, feet on the fields of the farmers arrested lived for this opportunity to run from the furniture factory and furniture shops, shop in front of early post-plant scale of this formation. Even today, Longjiang of China’s furniture production base of furniture there is still more than 1,200 enterprises engaged in various R & D and production of furniture; while music from the commercial capital of China’s furniture, but also has more than 2,000 private furniture shops and more than 300 million square m the store.

Of state-owned furniture industry because of institutional rigidities, but also lack of policy support and protection, and thus defeated in a market economy, Shanghai furniture factory body atrophy and change, Beijing was founded in Shenzhen, a new generation of timber furniture, the company’s demise; to the central, provincial and municipal state-owned Arts and Crafts Import and Export Company for investors in Shenzhen Great Ho Furniture Co., Ltd. in glory after finally in the 21st century due to insolvency and bankruptcy. The joint venture was spun off from large private enterprises exhilaration Lee Furniture Co., Ltd. is growing. Dalian “Huafeng”, Hebei, “Bluebird” and other furniture in a number of local state-owned enterprises through the joint-stock reform, joined the camp of private enterprises to gain a sustainable development.

The private, private enterprises, and never legal to illegal, from allowing there to encourage, support and guidance from outside the system added to the system, as important part of the great achievements of reform and opening up. So far, the Chinese furniture enterprises form of ownership, in addition to foreign investment, joint ventures, the overwhelming majority are private enterprises.

4 Economic globalization has accelerated the development of China’s furniture industry

China’s reform and opening up, the Chinese quickly restored the status of China in the WTO, in assuming responsibility for the external opening of the market also got a good opportunity to integrate into the world economy. In the context of economic globalization, China’s furniture industry to seize the opportunity to obtain a rapid development. The first is the globalization of furniture, raw and auxiliary materials, so that Chinese furniture manufacturing to obtain sufficient wood supply. China is the world’s per capita savings in the amount of timber for at least one of the countries, but also inseparable from the furniture industry wood supply. China’s furniture industry, the use of first half of 2006 logs up to 28 million cubic meters, annual timber imports reached 38.22 million cubic meters; in 2010, according to forecast the demand for Chinese furniture wood will reach 56 million cubic meters. To leave such a huge consumption of the international timber market supply can not be met.

Furniture industry, the globalization of markets make China’s furniture exports gained rapid development. China’s furniture exports in 1997 is only 1.82 billion U.S. dollars, while the 2007 has reached 20.45 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11 times more than Chinese furniture has entered into more than 200 countries and regions of the furniture market.

Furniture, technology and human resources, globalization, the Chinese furniture industry’s technological advances with the world. Western developed countries, furniture and equipment and technology is not the control of exports of military technology and weapons, hence the strength of the Chinese furniture industry can be achieved through the introduction of simultaneous development with the world. For example: “Double Leaf,” “All Friends”, “Hennessy” and a number of enterprises with advanced technology into the furniture business phalanx.

The introduction of advanced technology, while also directly engaged the participation of experts and overseas Chinese furniture enterprises in the planning and design, or the hiring of well-known designers at home and abroad to participate in China’s R & D and design of furniture brands, such as “federal”, “Hennessy,” ” Gu Process “,” SUNON “have all taken the first step. All this has accelerated the pace of globalization of Chinese furniture enterprises.

In the process of globalization, the Chinese furniture industry began to invest in overseas factories and the establishment of marketing network, in the “Milan”, “Cologne” and other large-scale exhibition at the International Furniture Fair, or visit the study also makes some enterprises began to globalization attempt.

In 2007 held in Shanghai in the Second World Conference of furniture, as well as in September 2007 in Shanghai in the opening of the country JSWB furniture village green, but also further promote the integration of China’s furniture industry, the globalization process.

Five decades of reform and opening up a proven track record of Chinese Furniture Industry

Reform and opening up 30 years ago, in the domestic reforms, in particular, institutional reforms, opening up, especially in bringing in and going out of the new situation, China’s furniture industry has developed into a traditional handicraft industry, a complete range of initial industrialization, industrial chain improve China’s furniture industry.

First, after 30 years of development, has been basically formed in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shunde, Zhongshan District, the Pearl River Delta as the major furniture industry cluster; from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta, consisting of furniture industry group; to Beijing , Tianjin, wing, Shandong, Liaoning Bohai Bay furniture industry the composition of groups; as well as Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi’an and other places in western furniture, composed of industries. China’s sustained and stable development of the furniture industry has laid a good foundation.

Second, China Light Industry Association and China Furniture Association, the organization established under the guidance of the characteristics of producing areas, such as Zhongshan, Tai Chung’s “China’s wood furniture manufacturing professional Town”, Dongguan Great Neck Hill’s “first town of Chinese furniture exports,” Shandong Ning’s “hometown of Chinese furniture,” Anji “China’s township chair industry,” and so on more than 10 feature furniture-producing areas, greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of local governments and enterprises.

Third, the planning and construction in various production areas of the furniture industry park, such as Jiangsu Pizhou, Shenzhen pit sub-town, Jiashan, Zhejiang, … …, whether it is business-led, or led by the Association, or local government-led construction of various types of furniture industrial park, both to expand capacity, improve the function and cooperation and achieved complete success.

Fourth, the improvement and extension of industrial chain, the furniture industry has also led the development of upstream industries. For example, wood-based panel industry, in 2006 China’s output reached 27.2878 million cubic meters of plywood, fiberboard to reach 4.666 million square meters, of which density-dimensional plate 2.2204 million cubic meters, particleboard 8.4326 million cubic meters, thus making China the world’s largest man-made board producer.

Furniture industry also contributed to the development of woodworking machinery manufacturing of furniture, except such as the German “power” and other woodworking machinery manufacturing enterprises settled in China, the private furniture machinery manufacturing also has been significant progress, such as the London of woodworking machinery manufacturing Shunde base, its addition to conventional mechanical products, but also developed a high-end CNC machinery, furniture and paint industry has access to the rapid development, a group of internationally renowned paint companies are settled in China, the development of China’s furniture industry to provide quality services.

Furniture market space and prosperity, with a total store area of more than 20 million square meters, “the United States Kemei home”, “good hundred years”, “JSWB” and a number of high-end brands have begun to store the center of cities in China, competition.

Services for the furniture industry also received simultaneous development of tertiary industry, such as in the furniture design and manufacture of forestry personnel training institutions and vocational colleges, have set up the relevant professional counterparts to nurture talent. Research product information in the furniture of Guangzhou “round square” company, in addition to designing software, in recent years in manufacturing technology and mass customization, it is also achieved remarkable results.

Numerous large pieces of furniture exhibition gradually with international standards and achieve international standards. In addition, the Central and the State Association and other authoritative organizations of the Furniture Design Competition levels are increased, and for the promotion of China’s furniture design has played an important role.