Research On Collective Forest Right System Reformation In Jixi, Heilongjiang Province

Abstracts: Located in the southeast of Heilongjiang province and neighbored the Russia, Jixi hasthree Counties (city) and six Districts. The forest area is620000hectares, and the total volume of liveforestry reached45.92million cubic meters. During the forest right reformation, approximately1.645million acres forest was transferred from state-owned to the township (town) or village collectiveforestry land. About654000acres, accounting for about38.6%of the total collective forest land area,was divided into the general zoology forest. The development of collective forestry is the foundation forthe well-being of forestry development in Jixi.In this paper, we investigated the history, present situation and the difficulties on the managementof collective forest in Jixi, and analyzed the experience of forestry right system reformation. In order tostraighten out the collective forest management system, make full implement on the ownership and useright of forest land and wood for farmers, arousing their enthusiasm in the construction andmanagement of forest, and eventually to build a modern forestry property right system of “make clearthe property ownership, responsibilities and rights, strictly guarantee the interests, and provide effectivesupervision service”, and put forward some relevant suggestions for the government departments.The research methods include:(ⅰ) Literature reading. We look up literatures concerning thereform and development of collective forests, and then get the conclusions by comparison andsummarization. We also pay attention to collecting the file material not officially published, so as tomake some necessary amendment and correction for the published data.(ⅱ) On-the-spot investigation.In order to grasp the specific conditions accurately, we visited each County (City) and District, and getfirst-hand data for paper perparation.(ⅲ) Combine theory with practice. We obtained a large number ofreliable data through literatures and investigation, and made in-depth analysis on the factors affectingthe transformation of forest right system by applying the theories of economics, management andsociology.According to the actual progress, we summarized the initial results of forest right systemreformation in Jixi, pointed out causes for the existing problems, and put forward some countermeasureson the forest right system reform as references for the relevant departments. The conclusion we get wereas follows: The relevant farmers showed high enthusiasm in forest right system reform, the task ofproperty rights certification has basically completed, and the reform results also gradually revealed.With the advancement of forest right reform, it becomes urgent to solve the up-coming problems. Basedon the results of this paper and successful experience from other areas, we put forward some solutionsof clearing the forest rights, increasing the investment and subsidies, perfecting the cutting regulation,and implementing the forest insurance. The forest right reform is a significant change for ruralmanagement system, and a lot of deep problems including how to get rich and management trees for thefarmers, need to do further research.