Institutions Implemented And Results Recollected: A Comparative Study Of The New Collective Forest Property Rights System Reform And The Household Contract Responsibility System Reform

The new collective forest property rights system reform was began to implemented in FuJian and JiangXi province in 2003 and 2004.This reform imitates the household contract responsibility system reform implemented in eighties last century to a great extent to achieve the goal of equal distribution of initial property right among the self-employed tree cultivators, so there is a large comparability between them. But the performance of the new collective forest property rights system reform in experimental provinces especially in FuJian shows that the reform not only causes many farmers losing their mountain forest but also leads to more and more farmers appealing to he higher authorities for help. The fact indicates that the new collective forest property rights system doesn't realize the goals which institution designers want to achieve and in this point, the two reforms are in stark contrast. This paper pays close attention to the similarities and differences in institution designing, institution implementing process, the background of institution implementing and the implementing performance.Basing on the field survey in FuJian province, this paper reflects on institution designing, institution implementing process and the implementing performance and makes a comparison with the household contract responsibility system reform. This paper mainly analyses the unfair phenomena in and after the process of the new collective forest property rights system, which is key problem avoided well by the household contract responsibility system reform. This paper holds that both the new collective forest property rights system and the household contract responsibility system reform should treat equitableness and efficiency problem seriously and take the balance of them into account. However, this point is easily ignored by people. Only by taking the balance of equitableness and efficiency into account, the reform can maximize the social effect and economic benefit.By now, few scholars make a comparison between the new collective forest property rights system reform and the household contract responsibility system reform, but this paper brings forth new ideas by doing that. The author thinks that the new collective forest property rights system reform exceeds the household contract responsibility system reform in many aspects especially marketing orientation, so the experience and lessons can give some enlightenment to the further reform of the household contract responsibility system.