An Analysis Of The Property Rights Reform Of Collective Non-Conmercial Forest

The construction and protection of collective non-commercial forest is the urgent reqirement of economic development of society and the development of ecological civilization. The property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest concerns the protection of non-commercial forest,the increasement of farmers' income in the district of collective non-commercial forest,as well as the promotion of collective financial revenue and public service in the country.This thesis chooses Zhongnan village of PuBei County and Dalu village of TianYang County in Guangxi as typical cases and comprehensively applies the knowledge of ecology,neoinstitutional economics and public policy theory. Through field investigation and effect tracking to different methods of property rights reform in the way of semi-structured survey and doorinterviewing and weighing the pros and cons in many-sided way and different levels,this thesis explore the working mechanisms and suitability of different methods of property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest. The measures and suggestions come up with have positive significance in carrying out the property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest and the protection of forest.The main conclusions of the research are followed:(1) The construction of fundamental system of collective non-commercial forest rights should be in farmers'interest and meet the financial need of villages(2)Different methods of property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest have great influence on the profit distribution of different right subjects.Both"unity and division" of collective forest rights are related to the vital interests of the right subjects.Therefore,to coordinate and balance the profit distribution of different right subjects is the key problem of collective forest rights reform.(3)Different methods of property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest in Guangxi make different effects.There are mainly two methods of property rights reform analysed in cases:property division to the household and property belonging to the collectives.Property division to the household is good for stimulating the property subjects to take active behavior,guiding the internalization of external property rights and enhancing the woking efficiency of property rights and intensive management level.Apart from them,it can protect the non-commercial forests and achieves the demands of ecological service function of forests.Moreover,the property directivity and the definition of responsibility scope is stronger,which is good for increasing property subjects'protection awareness of their own property rights and mutual supervision, and motivating property subjects economic activities so as to improve the farmers'income.On the other hand, property belonging to the collectives can prompt the resources to transfer from operators of low productivity to the ones of high productivity,and enhance utilization efficiency of forest land,as well as ensure the benefits from reasonable utilization of non-commercial forest resources.(4) Property rights reform should be toward to effectively giving full play to property working efficiency and operation yields. For farmers,the subjects of collective forest right system reform,property division to the household does more good to motivate economic activities of property subjects and improve the farmers'income. Since the economic benefits of property belonging to the collectives needs to shoulder the expenses of collective pubilc services,the yield rate is lower than the way of property division to the household if converting collective revenue to individual one.(5) The method of property rights reform of collective non-commercial forest in Guangxi should adjust measures to local conditions and implement strategies depending on different district.For the collective non-commercial forest of good site conditions which the farmers dependend on largely and is easy to form the economic benefits,the way of right certification to household and compensation to household is good for the administration and utilization of management on household basis. While for the collective non-commercial forest of special geographic location and great ecological vulnerability which is hard to form economic benefits,we should adopt the method of right certification to collectives and average profits to household in order to appropriately raise the utilizing efficiency of forestland and increase collective financial income of villages based on the protection of non-commercial forest...