In order to balance timber supply and demand and guarantee national timber security China plans to establish, by 2020, strategic commercial timber reserves over 14 million hectares in 25 provinces, according to Lesprom Network.
Of the 14 million hectares, 4.5 million will be new plantations, 5 million will be improvement of existing mature forests and a further 4.5 million hectares will require intensive management of young and maturing forest.
The China National Timber Strategic Reserve Production Base Plan (2013-2020) stipulates that 1.87 million hectares will be established in Guangxi Province to yield 13% of the target production.
