China is the country with the most developed bamboo utilization.  Scientific and technological innovation endows bamboo with more possibilities.  and "replacing plastic with bamboo" is leading many economic and social changes from China to the world.  Bamboo makes life more green and makes development more decarbonized, and is creating a better future.

Bamboo Changes Lives

November 2022 in Beijing.  In the venue of the 2nd World Bamboo and Rattan Conference, a conference volunteer was carrying a bamboo fiber backpack, using a bamboo wireless computer keyboard, and even the mobile phone case is made of bamboo.  She told reporters that “bamboo” is already a fashion and a way of life.  In recent years, some international luxury brands in the forefront of fashion have launched Bamboo series, embedding bamboo elements into their designs and winning the favor of high-end consumers.  But in Chishui, Guizhou province, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Beijing, tradition shines even if it is far from fashion.  Yang Changqin, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, leads workers to make intangible cultural heritage bamboo weaving.  Bamboo-woven porcelain, bamboo-woven jewelry, bamboo-woven handbags and other bamboo-woven crafts are taking shape in the hands of workers, and will soon go out of Chishui, go to the whole country, and even go to the world.  Some people take bamboo as a trend, some people get rich because of bamboo, and some people integrate bamboo into their daily life.  Bamboo is increasingly affecting and changing our lives.

Bamboo makes possible

The supply of disposable bamboo tableware such as bamboo straws, bamboo lunch boxes, and bamboo water cups produced by Chongqing enterprises is in short supply, which fits the rapid development of the fast food takeaway market.  The bamboo winding technology developed by Zhejiang enterprises can be used to build bamboo winding pipes and bamboo winding pipe corridors, which are being popularized and applied in some municipal projects.  Jiangsu enterprises use bamboo to produce water-sprinkling fillers in cooling towers, which can not only reduce costs but also improve efficiency.  These products used to be made of plastic, but now they can be made of bamboo.  At the Second World Bamboo and Rattan Conference, China and the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization jointly launched the initiative of "Replacing Plastic with Bamboo".  China will promote the feasible technologies and models proved by its own practice to the world, and join hands with the world to reduce plastic pollution and build a clean and beautiful world.  A company in Yiyang, Hunan province, it is a inventor of Bamboo Building Structural Materials, a unique, patented structrual laminated bamboo timber with our infinite length and large format forming technology, we can cut any lengths at will, massive laminated bamboo board up to 10 metres long available, with high bonding strength, and can pass the Type I impregnation peel test.  It can also be used for building formwork and container flooring.  This type of product provides more solutions for architectural design.  Beijing Winter Olympics, Xiongan New Area Citizen Service Center, Tianjin Binhai New Area Cultural Center, bamboo buildings with high-end atmosphere and unique design.  From construction and decoration to furniture and papermaking, from packaging and textile to food and health care products, from household products to chemical products, from art crafts suitable for collection to disposable FMCG products, Chinese bamboo products have formed more than 100 series and tens of thousands of varieties.  It can not only "replace plastic with bamboo", but also "replace cotton with bamboo", "replace wood with bamboo" and "replace steel with bamboo".  This ancient Chinese plant is creating more possibilities thanks to technology.

Bamboo Connects the World

A bamboo connects people of different colors and languages in the world, and gathers, communicates, cooperates and helps each other for how bamboo can better benefit mankind.  The establishment and growth of INBAR entrusts all member countries to rely on bamboo and rattan to optimize ecology, improve people's livelihood and achieve green development.  As the host country of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization, as well as a big country of bamboo resources, bamboo industry, and bamboo culture, China actively practices the development concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and influences the world and leads development with its vigorous development of bamboo and rattan industry.  From China to the world, from raw material producing areas to the front end of the market, the package action plan on promoting the development of bamboo and rattan is being actively implemented.  We expect and believe that bamboo will bring more changes, realize.