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"Holding the second Guangxi Home Fair in Yulin City and building a platform for industrial exchanges and cooperation are of great significance to promoting the construction of industrial clusters, cultivating and expanding characteristic industrial clusters, and exploring the green transformation and upgrading of the furniture industry." China Timber Protection Industry Association will Liu Nengwen, director of the Timber Conservation and Development Center, spoke highly of the second Guangxi Home Fair. Specialization and influence have become keywords for reporters to observe this Guangxi Home Fair.

Home Fair has become an industry weather vane

The Guangxi Home Fair attracted more than 1,200 furniture manufacturers from outside Guangdong, Jiangxi and other regions as well as local Guangxi to participate in the exhibition. At the scene, the reporter saw a dazzling array of furniture and home furnishing products such as antique wooden furniture, mahogany furniture, bamboo, wood and straw. In the custom furniture exhibition hall that follows the trend, well-known domestic brands include Zhihuashi, Deyi Home Furnishing, Prince Home Furnishing, and Xilinmen The first-class cabins also bring the latest styles. There are also hundreds of wood panels produced from all over Guangxi... The richness and professionalism of the exhibits at the Guangxi Home Fair made the leaders and guests praised by the participants.

The largest bed among Chinese traditional furniture, the "Qiangong Babu Bed", was unveiled at the Furniture Fair. (Photo by our reporter Jiang Jintai)

There is also a large number of industry association leaders and experts gathered here. Their views let people know the latest trends in the development of the industry. Liu Nengwen let attendees see the bright development prospects of the furniture industry with detailed data: China has become the world's largest wood processing country, trading country and consumer country. The annual processing output value of the wood industry exceeds 2 trillion yuan, and the import and export trade volume is 600. More than 100 million U.S. dollars, the annual commercial timber trade volume reaches 200 million cubic meters, and the timber consumption is nearly 600 million cubic meters. As an important part of the wood industry, the furniture manufacturing industry is a basic industry related to people's livelihood, and has played an important role in meeting the people's growing needs for a better life. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2020, the total revenue of enterprises above designated size in the furniture manufacturing industry across the country will be 687.54 billion yuan, and the total profit will be 41.77 billion yuan.

At the same time as the opening of the Guangxi Home Fair, the second Guangxi Green Furniture and Home Furnishing Industry Development Summit Forum was also held in Beiliu City. The forum brought together big names in the industry, and their novel and profound expositions made people shine.

Under the impact of the epidemic, the problems facing China's furniture industry are more prominent: product homogeneity is serious, competitiveness is low, safety and environmental protection standards are not high, and the supply chain industry chain system is imperfect. It is urgent to innovate a new model of green development of the furniture industry. Experts at the meeting suggested that it is necessary to vigorously promote the development of customized, green and intelligent furniture production, and promote the transformation of furniture consumption to green, environmental protection, safety and health, so as to achieve high-quality sustainable development.

Witness the development of Yulin furniture industry

In the exhibition hall, local mahogany furniture factories in Beiliu, such as Zequn Furniture and Xusheng Mahogany, exhibited many of their newly developed mahogany furniture products, which attracted the attention of buyers in the region and abroad. These regulated enterprises all started from small workshops. Under the guidance of the industrial policy of Yulin City, and boosted by the Guangxi Home Fair, they are developing towards automation, scale, scientific research, and branding. Influential solid wood furniture company.

Forestry machinery CNC machine tools display.

The furniture industry in Yulin City has shown a trend of accelerated transformation and upgrading in recent years. Yulin City is the "Famous Furniture City in Guangxi" and "The Capital of Solid Wood Furniture in the South". There are 1,588 forestry processing enterprises. In 2020, the city's forestry output value will reach 56.78 billion yuan. In recent years, the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have actively implemented the autonomous region’s goal of building a “high-end home furnishing material industry cluster”, focusing on “larger panels, better furniture, deeper chemicals, and better markets”, focusing on promoting the “one park and three districts” "And "One Center" construction, to build three industrial clusters, Beiliu City Furniture Industrial Park, Guangxi Ecological Board Industrial Park, and Bobai County Forestry Industrial Park.

Yulin City attaches great importance to the development of the furniture industry and vigorously optimizes the business environment. Carry out "one enterprise, one policy" to alleviate difficulties for enterprise development. In response to the difficulty of corporate development funds, the Guangxi integrated financial service platform was used to carry out bank-enterprise docking activities, and more than 200 million yuan of loan funds for more than 40 forest products enterprises were solved in 2020. Strengthen the drive of technological innovation. Build a forestry science and technology innovation cooperation platform with Guangxi Academy of Forestry to provide scientific and technological support for the development of the furniture industry. Take the lead in constructing the Guidongnan Center of the National Forestry and Grass Administration Forestry Product Quality Inspection Center in the whole district, boosting the development of standardization and branding of the forestry industry in Yulin City.

The product structure of the furniture and home furnishing industry in Yulin City has continued to optimize, the number of mid-to-high-end brands has increased, and the product quality has been significantly improved, making positive contributions to meeting the needs of the people for a better home life. "We have made sufficient preparations for this home fair, exhibiting many newly developed products, and welcome citizens and buyers to visit and negotiate!" said Zou Weiqing, the director of Lianzhong Redwood Furniture Factory.