Abstract: [Objective] This paper attempted to answer the question of what specific impact on households' capital input and labor input in forest management could be caused by engaging in different forest management types. The concerns are of important significance in enhancing forest resource growth and forestry sustainable development.[Method] This research conducted a sample survey of 500 forestry farm households, 50 villages, and 10 counties in Jiangxi Province. By applying quantitative regression method, the research analyzed the impacts of partnership management and joint shareholding management on households' capital input and labor input in forest management.[Result] Partnership management had a statistically positive influence on households' participation in capital investment in forest management with a coefficient of 1.013. It also significantly impacted the intensity of capital input. The coefficients were 4.174 for total input and 1.909 for per unit input, respectively. Joint shareholding management had a promoting effect on the amount of labor use in forest management, with coefficient of 0.521 for total input and 0.180 for per unit input. In addition, the impact of logging quota policy could be positively regulated by joint shareholding management. Partnership management and joint shareholding management significantly reduced the restrictions on labor input from long distance to township in mountainous areas. Rural households' human capital characteristics, forest land resource characteristics, and finance ability characteristics had diverse effects on households' investment in forest land management.[Conclusion] Partnership management and joint shareholding management can promote household forest management investment. However, the development of partnership management and joint shareholding management is relatively low. What is more, the impacts of partnership management and joint shareholding management on capital input are different from those on labor input. Therefore, in order to promote the sustainable development of forestry, it is necessary to guide the standardization and procedure of partnership management and joint shareholding management. Especially in remote mountainous areas, we should take the advantages of plentiful members and wide information sources of partnership management and joint shareholding management. Meanwhile, coordinated reform of collective forest tenure and forest infrastructure should be improved, so as to incent farmers to participate in forest management.

Key words: management modes, collective forest, management investment, rural households