Chinese Wood Floor Output Expected To Rise

Beijing, China, March 19, 2008--The output of Chinese wood flooring industry will grow by over 10% annually in the next two years and reach 500 million square meters  in 2010, according to Zhang Wenling, Secretary General of the Chinese Forest Products Industry Association.

China’s output of wooden flooring was 350 million square meters in 2007, the association said.

There have been about 3,000 businesses and about 1 million employees working in the sector, since wood flooring production began in the mid-1980s.