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China’s Paper Industry at A Glance

Paper industry consolidation accelerates the shutting down of uncompetitive paper manufacturers

China is one of the big players in global paper industry. It’ operating management is working towards intensive development model from extensive model at its early stage. Thanks to the introduced technologies from overseas and innovative efforts made by Chinese practitioners, some Chinese frontier manufacturers leading their position in world paper industry community. Now China has taken the lead in paper production and consumption among other countries and regions.

The number of Chinese paper manufacturers above designated size has been shrinking since 2014 (a total of 2,962), and down to 2,524 in 2019 (China Paper Association data).

Number of Chinese paper manufacturers above designated size in 2014-2019

There’s an increase in demand and supply at the same time

Supply

Paper and cardboard output has been rising despite fluctuation since 2014, and broke 1.1 billion tons for the first time in 2017. The overall output in 2018 saw a small contraction and then rebound and went up 3.16% to about 1 billion tons in 2019 (China Paper Association data).

China’s paper & cardboard output and growth rate in 2014-2019

Unit: thousand tons, %

Revenue fell less steeply

The sales revenue of paper manufacturers above the designated size in China has seen steady rise from 2014 to 2017. However, given the price fluctuation of raw materials and further industry consolidation, sales revenue of paper manufacturers above the designated size has slipped in 2018, and there was a further decline to RMB 765 billion in 2019, down 6.16% year-on-year. Among 2,524 interviewed manufacturers, 560 are lose-making business, accounting for 22.19% of the total (China Paper Association data).

China’s paper & cardboard sales revenue and growth rate in 2014-2019

Unit: RMB billion, %

Demand

China’s paper and cardboard consumption hit a new record at 1.1 billion tons in 2017. In 2019, the consumption reached over 1 billion tons, a rise of 2.54% year-on-year, with per capita consumption of 75 kg (China Paper Association data).

China’s paper & cardboard consumption and growth rate in 2014-2019

Unit: thousand tons, %

The elimination of backward production capacity will be accelerated given the higher bar on the industrial threshold and environmental-protection standards raised by the government. Under such circumstance, SMEs have to be in face of increasing operation cost and narrowed profits. In addition, the fierce competition and industry consolidation make transformation and innovation the only ways to stay and stand out.

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