Sichuan Bamboo Economic Circle(2009/10/14)
Bamboo Industry in Sichuan achieved remarkable results in economic circle construction
    In recent years, Sichuan, in accordance with "forestry-paper integration" development ideas, has accelerated the development of bamboo industry, initially formed the large-scale and influential bamboo industry First, the idea of development of bamboo industry becomes increasingly clear. The strategic vision has been established in order to build South Sichuan Bamboo Industry economic circle with Zigong, Luzhou, Yibin, Leshan, Yaan as the core economic zone, and implement " promotion of forest with paper, integration of forest and paper, base of one industry, simultaneous development of multi-industry," namely, the system with focus on pulp and paper manufacturing, integration of bamboo, pulp, paper, bamboo material (bamboo shoot) processing, follow-up with bamboo forest tourism, and build South Sichuan into the country's major bamboo products processing and distribution base covering a wide range, giving strong radiant power, covering extensive fields, and highlighting advantages.
    Secondly, constantly expand the scale of bamboo base. Through government guidance, market allocation, leading enterprises impetus, bamboo farmers participation, the construction of Sichuan Bamboo industry base has been showing rapid progress. Since "The 10th Five-Year Plan", there has been an annual increase of bamboo base of 100 million mu.
    From the beginning of this year, efforts increased at all levels to guide the financial resources, the provincial finance arranged 20 million yuan of special funds for the bamboo industry demonstration base construction, Yaan City invested 42 million yuan, guide social capital to build 40 million mu of New Bamboo base, the province newly established 200 mu of forests and shrubs within this year, total size of bamboo make up to 1200 mu.
    Thirdly, bamboo processing capacity has been increasing. According to statistics, Sichuan has built13 pulp and paper enterprises with an annual output of over 50,000 tons, production capacity reached 1.3 million tons, ranking first in the country.
    In 2007, the province's output of 820,000 tons of bamboo pulp paper, accounting for 1/5 of production of