Future Directions in Wood and Engineered Wood Products Research in China
IRG/WP 09-40479
Guangjie Zhao
This paper has summarized the research advance of basic wood science and engineered wood products in the 20th century in China and introduced the research advance and directions of basic wood science, engineered wood products and the extensive researches based on the basic wood science such as wood chemical rheology, wood fractal analysis, wood environmental science and nano-wood material etc in the near future. Based on these, the future research directions for wood science in conformity with Chinese actual conditions have been put forward. The objective of this paper is to promote the extensive exchanges of researchers in the wood science field and find out the new approaches of research and application for wood science and wood engineered composite material.