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A labourer works at a timber market in Changzhi, north China’s Shanxi province June 18, 2007. China’s fast-growing furniture industry — exports climbed over a third to 60 million pieces in the first quarter of this year alone — is sucking up foreign wood, in part because the country has been decimating domestic forests for centuries. To match feature DEFORESTATION/CHINA REUTERS/Stringer(CHINA) CHINA OUT – RTR1QWVV