Study On The Characteristics, Problems And Reform Strategy Of State-owned Forest Farms In Hebei Province

State-owned forest farms are important parts of forestry, cornerstones for consolidation and development of forestry and basic units of forestry production. State-owned forest farms play a leading and exemplary role in modern forestry construction and sustainable forest management As a part of the social system in Hebei, State-owned forest farms provide an active platform for accelerating the forestry science and technology progress and modern forestry construction. The position and function of State-owned forest farms become increasingly important. They are unapproachable. It is impossible for forestry sustainable development in Hebei without State-owned forest farms'sustainable development.As a result of objective conditions, the planned economic system and other historical reasons, as well as localization of the former guiding ideology, development of the state-owned forest farms has fallen behind relatively, stamina of the state-owned farms is deficient seriously, the reform of the state-owned farms has got along slowly. Many state-owned forest farms have trapped into resources and economic crisis. The guiding ideology, stratagem and policy are being adjusted. As one of the three forest right system reform, the reform of state-owned forest farms is facing severe challenge and god-given opportunity. Therefore how to combine with situations'requirement, study and explore the issue about reform, make sure of the direction, aim and task from actual conditions are significant to make sustainable development of state-owned forest farms came true.Based on the property right, agency theory and institutional change, current demand of state-owned forest farms had been analyzed in this paper. The necessity and urgency of the reform had been explained. The scale, amount, forest resource, personnel, economic development level and management of the state-owned forest farms in Hebei had been introduced. Their basic characteristics had been summarized: in the perspective of nature, they are regional in distribution, have dynamic tendency and ecological significance; in sociological angle, they have economic backwardness, marginal in status; in economics, they have resource rareness, common goods and externality.Series of contradictions and problems in the construction and development of state-owned forest farms had been pointed. For instance, weak infrastructure, arreas of wages and social insurance, surplus workers increased year by year, inadequate capital investment, irrational industrial structure, low income, unsmooth management system and inflexible operational mechanisms. Principle and object of reform of state-owned forest farms had been confirmed. Under the premise of locating, management mode that state-owned forest farms in Hebei should be divided into ecological public welfare type forest farms and commercial management type forest farms, i.e. classified zoning had been constructed. General framework for reform of state-owned forest farms had been designed. State-owned forest farms in Hebei should establish management system which takes forest management plan as center and the ownership separates with the operational right. To ensure the reform go on well, it is necessary that bringing administrative expenditure into national finance; improve ecological benefit compensation system; enact policies which will strengthen social security and infrastructure construction of state-owned forest farms, forgive forestry debt and to encourage graduates to work in state-owned forest farms.