Day 2, Session 2: Tenure reform - Experiences and lessons from other countries Presentation by Li Shuxin, Policy Division Chief, Department of Policy and Law, State Forestry Administration, People's Republic of China

1. Collective forest tenure
Collective Forest tenure reform in china
reform in china
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2009-5-25,Yaounde

2. contents
! Why collective forest tenure reform?
! What’s the content?
! What we have done?
! What’s the result?
! What have we learned?
! What we are doing now?

3. Forest statistics
• Forest cover
18.21%
• Total forest land
area: 174.91million
hectares.
• Standing wood
volume: 13,618
million cubic meters
•The stand volume
per hectare 84.73
cubic meters

4. Basic information
! Forest cover 8.6% to 18.21%
! Plantation area.
! 1990s large scale mountain
greening programe, some
provinces “eradicate”
barren land
! 1998-six key projects were
launched.

5. Forest Tenure in China
! Two land ownership types
! State-owned forest land
--42.45% forest area and 42.16% volume;
--Managed by state forest enterprises
and farms
! Collective
--57.55% area and 57.84% volume
--Diversified models of forest management

6. Why collective forest reform?
! History
--before 1978,planning economy
--after 1978,forest land contracting
to farmer—taking back
! Problem
--Low productivity.
--Farmers have low interests in
forest.
--Rigid policies

7. Tenure is one of the right thing

8. Reform background
! Harmonize society
construction
! New countryside
! To Meet forest product
demand

9. Reform contents
! Goal
--increase forest resources
--increase farmers’ income
--good environment
--harmonious society
! Tasks(2008-2012)
--Giving 70ys forest land use right to farmers
--Issuing forest certificate by government
--Adjusting policies (e.g. cutting quote policies, reducing fees and taxes, financial
support etc.)
--From Document on advancing collective forest tenure
reform,2008

10. 1.Giving land use
right to farmers

11. 2.Authorizeing
legal right to use
forest resources

12. 3.Disposing right

13. 4.Safeguarding benefit
from forest land

14. Status quo
! 28 provinces have issued documents on
advancing this reform
! 30 provinces have designated organizations
responsible for the reform.
! 5 provinces have finished first-step reform.
! 15 provinces are putting forward all the way
after piloting, the others are under experiment

15. What’s the result?
! 90% farmers satisfied with
the reform
! “Three worrying” doesn’t
emerge
! Positive aspects
--Incentive motivated
--Forests increased
--Farmers’ income increased
--Community harmonizes
--Strengthen the ties between
government and farmers

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18. Employment

19. Harmonious society

20. Why success?
! Government support.
! Respecting people’s will.
! Advancing the reform
according to law.
! Careful designing the
reform
! advancing reform in light
of realities of specific
regions.
! Right time

21. Secretary general visits economic tree in Jiangxi province

24. let people decide

25. plan,trainning

26. Reform in different way

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! From natural forest to
plantation??
! Forest fragmentation??
! Income increase??

28. What we are doing
! Conference on forestry reform will be organized.
! Policies
- --farmers cooperative
- --cutting system reform
- --improve compensation standards
- --investment in forest infrastructure
- --monetary initiative
! Forest law revising

29. Thanks for your attention!
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The department of policy and law,
SFA,P.R.C