Our country furniture industry has developed rapidly since the reform and opening-up, furniture production technology constantly updated, ever-increasing variety of furniture, and gradually formed specialized production. The management level of furniture industry has been improved, we see many employers today are fighting in the first line of furniture for our industry has made great contribution.
Our country has become a furniture dining table dining chair of the producing countries in 2005, furniture exports 13.767 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the world. The world's furniture production is 230 billion U.S. dollars, China is about 42 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 18% of the total. Furniture import and export of world trade is 86 billion U.S. dollars, we have completed a 14.2 billion is 13.7 billion of exports, imports more than 600 million, so that we import and export trade of the world's furniture 17%. China in October this year, 1 ~, furniture office chairs to complete the 14.1 billion exports this year over last year's 13.7 billion, an increase of 28%. According to statistics, 1 in October of this year above-scale enterprises or the growth rate of 28 percent, meaning that the growth rate of the industry with the export growth rate is nearly 30%, that is, we the furniture industry is a thriving industry.
Office Furniture gradually formed a professional, in the past is furniture, civil and to the office is too close to call, nor how points. Over the past few years on the separation of many types, for example, office screens, like furniture, living room furniture, restaurant furniture, as well as furniture such as hotels, etc. TV cabinet. Office furniture inside a different raw materials, different production processes, different product standards, the use of different occasions, different sales methods, and different after-sales service, etc., are the formation of specialized furniture. For example, we say that, like our kitchen furniture, kitchen furniture production, sale, installation and we generally have a lot of different furniture, you do a good job in the factory yard to go to every household after the installation, people should be given to complete and also good after-sales service. We are office furniture and general civil furniture sales there was a great difference, so the shape of specialization. Our Beijing office furniture for the state organs, enterprises, government agencies and various departments of the application of a large number of office furniture, many of our business is our fixed-point unit of the State Council, procurement centers, we are the proud, but also produce a lot of really good product. The export of office furniture we also take a large proportion of China's exports, exports of office furniture in 2005 export volume accounting for 6.5% and exports 899 million U.S. dollars, is 900 million U.S. dollars of large numbers.
Wooden office furniture which is 310 million U.S. dollars, metal office furniture is 112 million U.S. dollars, 478 million is a swivel chair, it should be said that this volume is very substantial, and nearly 9 billion in exports of office furniture, office furniture business is our contribution.
The current rapid development of China's economic construction, government agencies to improve the office conditions, banking, securities, schools, hospitals, as well as continued expansion of enterprises and institutions, and office furniture demand growing rapidly. The production of office furniture should be the rapid development of office furniture is also optimistic about the market prospects, and now appears to be good. With the modern office building office buildings, the original office space needed for a large number of office furniture supply, industrial and commercial enterprises abroad, set up offices in China, office furniture, the annual demand is expected to more than 40 billion. In our country, there are 400 billion in market demand. There are 2000 foreign-related hotels, restaurants, more than 30 million each year need to be updated-room furniture, new hotels and restaurants also increased the demand for furniture is expected to reach 3 billion a year or so. Transport, health, sports, cultural development, the demand for office furniture are also increasing. 2008, China's bid to host the Olympic Games and Shanghai 2010 World Expo is also the need for a large number of furniture suppliers, furniture procurement of the Olympic Games has begun, the Beijing University Hospital building, factory may have to know, there are a large number of needs, especially in recent Beijing Hospital, I know the situation of high-ranking cadres Ward 7, which required high-grade furniture, office furniture that is to say the market is still very wide.
The furniture industry, we are in a period of rapid development for the furniture industry to display self-development to provide a platform for enterprise development and provide an opportunity for accumulation, that is, we are the furniture industry, gold is still a very good time. Furniture industry, there is a characteristic that we have in the old master, the hero is not, do not arraijan industry, the industry too tired, too bad people can not also do in this industry, so for the industry's collapse has come many come in for dry years and see no way to get out of here, so we still have the industry's future development. Now our country is very good for our furniture industry provides a good opportunity, in this situation all the furniture colleagues to make use of its wisdom, for the furniture industry make a greater contribution, in order to build a harmonious society to do something to contribute.