Analysis On Collective Forest Tenure Reform In China

Using the data collected from 90 villages' 900 household in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, this thesis empirical analyzed some main issues that discussed much during the process of Tenure Reform in south collective forestry area. Such as: should the manger be charged for use of forestland? Which factors should responded for different tenure form arrangement? Does the reform perform as well as what it expected to be?Firstly, supply-demand theory was used to analyze the factors that cause the wide scale differences of tenure institutional arrangement among villages. The results of the econometric study showed the relationship between social factors, economic factors and policy factors and the development of different forest management type, which finally affects the arrangement of tenure institution. The thesis also found that in the area with good alternative income, farmer demand for forestland would be lower; in the village with much market accessibility to the market leads to higher demand for forestland. Higher labor share induces increase in household managed forest. It also be found that in the village with good social capital and high quality village leadership leads to mange forestland in the model of community manage. Besides, the analysis also proved that prohibition of charge land fee was seemingly deterring the process of efficiency improvement in forest management.Faustman model was employed to analyze the effect of different charge forms on the farmers' forestry production. The result showed that the forestland use fee which be charged in name of protecting forest resource is totally wrong. To charge fee from the framers is just a kind of behavior which impropriate part of forest managers' income. So, in the aspect of farmers, the collective organization should not charge any fee. It was also found out that the way of charge when harvesting is the best way in all the forestland use fee charge models. For it can promote the forestland managers to use forest resource in a sustainable way.The purpose of tenure reform is to set a forestry management system with clear property rights, to emancipate forestry productivity, to induce social investment devote into forestry sector. Thus, the impact of tenure reform to farms' forestry investment, especially investment on the timber forest, should be the seena as a standard to judge the performance of the tenure reform. Farmers' forestry invest action was divided into two steps: firstly, decide to invest into forestry or not; secondly, to the those farmers who are willing to invest in forestry, need to decide the invest scale. In the thesis we analyzed the impacting factors of forestry investment, especially focused on the property rights' impacts. The property factors include: stability, transfer rights and mortgage rights. The results showed that when the farmers expected long stability of forestland management, they will arrange forestry production in a sustainable way. Though the transfer right showed the positive effect in the theory study, but showed no effect in the empirical model. Mortgage rights may induces farmers invest more on the forestland.Finally, the thesis gave an conclusion about the performance of the tenure reform. The tenure reform was considered to have a positive effect on releasing the forestry productivity. However, some synthetically reforms should be conducted, in order to ensure the successes of the reform and to consolidate the achieved reform result. These synthetically reforms should be carried out: to peovide policy support, science and technology service and information consultation; to improve law guarantee system, to establish forestry product circulation system, invest and financing system, and so on.