Energy use and CO emissions in China’s pulp and paper industry: Supply chain approach

In addition, China’s PPI is facing great shortage of domestic raw material supply (Manda et al., 2012). In 2010, China imported 35.43 million m3 of industrial roundwood, an increase of 26.6% from the previous year, which accounts for 34.6% of its total domestic roundwood production (FAO, 2012). China is also a net importer of pulp; 35% of total pulp consumption during 2006-2010 was imported. Moreover, China is the world’s biggest buyer of recovered paper (BIR, 2011). Over 62% of China’s pulping materials in 2010 was recycled paper, of which 24.35 million tonnes was imported (CTAPI, 2011).