On the Issues concerning Collective Public Welfare Forest Tenure Reform
Forest tenure reform has greatly inspired the foresters’enthusiasm of fostering forests,which has eased the pressure of inadequate supply of forest resources in China and greatly increased the income of farmers meanwhile,contributing to a new socialist countryside construction.However,in the reform process,no clear distinction has been made between commercial forest and public welfare forest,together with an uneven distribution between commercial forest and the public welfare forest and a huge income disparities between the two,thereby resulting in inadequate protection of the public welfare forest and causing serious damage to forestry ecological benefits.To solve these problems,the prerequisite is to clear the scope of the public welfare forest and on this basis to make equitable distribution and give full consideration to the wishes of the foresters;and the fundamental way is to broaden the public welfare revenue channels to improve public welfare income of the farmers.