There are four largest wholesale wood and MDF furniture centers in China where you can import furniture from: Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Guangdong Province.

But each of them has its own characteristics. If you are buying bamboo products, for example, but you asked a manufacturer located in Shandong Province, then it is totally waste of your time, because Shandong Province is not the origin of bamboos, the bamboos are all grown in the South Provinces such as Zhejiang Province, and there is a very famous bamboo products wholesale center — Anji City, where every corner of the city are doing bamboo products business.

In this article, I will introduce tips like this to help you find the right wholesale center location for your targeted wood and MDF furniture. It will save you a lot of time when searching for suppliers. Hope you enjoy it.

Guangdong Province

Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, is the traditional wood and MDF furniture center in China. It has about 30 years of history to manufacture wood and MDF furniture till now. But as labor costs and material costs rise sharply in recent years, some of them are moving forward to the whole house customization market and making their own global furniture brand. Some of the investments have moved to the north of China gradually, they are losing their leadership places in the traditional cheap OEM wood and MDF furniture market nowadays.

Guangdong Province is also one of the wholesale centers of rattan furniture in China.

Their characteristics include:
1)Furniture quality is higher than in other wholesale centers in China, and so is the price.
2)Some of the manufacturers have their own global brands.
3)Ratten furniture wholesale center in China.
4)Port city.

Zhejiang Province

Zhejiang Province is the first wood and MDF crafts wholesale center in China.

Xianju County, Taizhou City, which used to be the biggest photo frame and woodcraft center, is now facing the heavy burden of the rising labor cost too. Some of them have transferred their manufacturing battlefield to the north of China, such as Jiangsu Province(I will introduce this to you later).

Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which owns thousands of continuous bamboo mountains and covers an area of 6,670,000 ㎡, is now one of the biggest bamboo furniture and crafts wholesale centers in China.

Their characteristics include:
1)One of the biggest bamboo furniture wholesale centers in China.
2)Used to be the biggest wood and MDF crafts wholesale center in China.
3)Furniture and crafts quality is not as good as in Guangdong Province, but the price is cheaper.
4)Some of them have transferred their investment to the northern city of China, such as Jiangsu Province, to enjoy the lower labor cost and lower planter rental benefits.
5)Port city.

Shandong Province

Caoxian County, Heze City, Shandong Province, is famous for its wood boxes and coffins. They are the wood coffins wholesale center of China, which has exported to Japan for tens of years now. Therefore, manufacturers in Caoxian County are very good at Paulownia furniture as well.

Linyi City, adjacent to Jiangsu Province, is the biggest MDF and plywood board wholesale center in China, that should thanks to the plenty of raw material: poplar trees. Their history goes back to the 1980s when the local governments promoted the planting of poplar trees. Now when you go to the north of China, nearly all the trees in your eyes are poplar trees. It’s an identity card of north China now.

Their characteristics include:
1)The biggest MDF and plywood board wholesale center in China.
2)Very good at wood boxes and coffins, also paulownia furniture.
3)Furniture and crafts price is cheaper than in Zhejiang Province.
4)Port city.

Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu Province is China’s largest timber importing destination, accounting for nearly 40% of the total timber importing in China.

Besides timber importing destinations, Jiangsu is the origin of China’s online furniture wholesale center too. Their specific “Taobao Villiage”, even attracted the attention of professors and researchers of Peiking University in the last few years. Taobao is Alibaba Group’s retail platform and the biggest retail platform in China too. As you can see from the “Taobao Villiage” literally, the whole villages here were making and selling online furniture on the Taobao platform. But now, they got another good news: investment from Zhejiang manufacturers.

As mentioned above, some of the manufacturers in Zhejiang Province moved to the north city of China: Shuyang County, Suqian City. They brought not only funds but also experienced carpentry and painter experts.

Why Shuyang County?
1)The local workers here have plenty of experience to make online selling furniture.
2)China’s largest timber importing destination, and adjacent to Linyi city, the biggest MDF and plywood wholesale center in China.
3)Wood and MDF furniture have a lower price and good quality than Zhejiang Province.
4)Port city.

With all these advantages, Shuyang is becoming the newest wood and MDF furniture wholesale center.

How to go to Shuyang?

You can travel with plane, or the high-speed train to Shuyang County.

1)Take the plane

The nearest airport to Shuyang County is Guanyin International Airport, Xuzhou City, China.

But you may not fly directly to Xuzhou City from your city.
Then you can fly to Shanghai, Hong Kong, or Beijing first, and then transit to Xuzhou, where we will pick you up there.
For example, you take a plane to Shanghai; then take a flight from Shanghai to Xuzhou, then you can take a bus or taxi to Shuyang County from the airport by yourself, or tell us your landing time, and we can pick you up at the airport.

2)Take the high-speed train

The nearest high-speed railway station to Shuyang County is Suqian Railway station. Then you can take a taxi or take the bus to Shuyang County.
Before that, you can book a hotel in Shuyang County online.

By the way, before you come to China, you must have a visa first.

During the current COVID epidemic, it will be a little complicated for you to go to China. You will need to make a nucleic acid test within 24 hours before you take the plane, and do it again when you landed. After you landed, you will have to stay in a hotel for a long time, about 10-14 days(for quarantine). The Epidemic Prevention Policy may change anytime according to the outbreak, you may have to keep your eye on the timely news.