1025. Congo, Pointe Noire, 2007 Chua Booan Lee, on the right, in the wood processing plant he manages for Sicofor. This plant has just been restored to working conditions by its new Chinese owners and inaugurated by Henri Djombo, the Congolese minister for forests in June 2007. It produces thin layers of the precious wood that will be then glued together to produce veneered which will be exported to China, the United States and Europe. The Congolese law requires timber companies to transform in the country 80% of the wood they log. But nobody respects this proportion, it is by far more profitable to export the logs and process them in China.