Abstract:

Regions that are implementing the policy of conversing farmland to forestland in China are mostly poverty rural areas,in which large quantities of low-level agricultural labour forces depend on sterile abandoned farmlands.Under such situations,it is urgent to focus on and appropriately deal with the relationships among local governmental revenues,farmers’living standards and conversion of farmland to forestland,so as to guarantee the realization of national aim of conversing farmland to forestland.Consequently,conversion of farmland to forestlangt and poverty alleviation in underdeveloped mountainous areas must be combined tightly. Taking the implementation of conversing farmland to forestland as background,the nature conservation and community development program in Gusheng Village of Guizhou Province was carried out by optimizing local development conditions and improving self-development abilities. Fully reflecting the principle of “Comprehensively Improving Production,Livelihood and Ecology”,Gusheng village has primarily transformation of the developing pattern in just 2 years.After the analysis of operation of Gusheng Program,this article showed that:1) Exterior forces had to be introduced to poverty alleviation under the background of conversing farmland to forestland;2)The introduction of exterior forces had to be rooted in transforming development views of local cadres and masses, and directed at improving self-development abilities of underdeveloped rural areas;3) Once exterior forces were introduced,the way of their operation determined the effects of conversing farmland to forestland and poverty alleviation in underdeveloped areas,while the strategy of “Localization+Systematization” was well worth using for reference.

Key words: conversion of farmland to forestland, poverty area, sustainable development, development outlook, localization+systematization