OREANDA-NEWS. January 23, 2014. In late December 2013 a national timber reserve strategic alliance was established by the State Forestry Administration and Beijing Forestry University, as ITTO reported.

This alliance will promote non-profit cooperation and voluntary participation by the private and public sector entities involved in plantation establishment, production, management, scientific research and teaching. The alliance will build a development platform linking timber businesses and national and international institutions for resource sharing.

The first tasks will be:

- strengthening the relationship between stakeholders and to assist enterprises in marketing, standardisation and management.

- Building the information exchange platform.

- Strengthening the communication among the private and public sector to promote technical exchange, coordination and cooperation.

- Strengthening links with international organizations.