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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2025, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (10): 236-246.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20240484

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Effectiveness of New Round of Collective Forest Tenure Reform, Functional Efficiency of Township Forestry Stations, and Rural Households’ Income Growth: An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Vector Autoregression Model

Yukun Xu1,Zexi Xue2,Weiqing Zhuang1,Li Song1,Ansheng Huang3,*()   

  1. 1. School of Internet Economics and Trade, Fujian University of Technology Fuzhou 350014
    2. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Fuzhou 350002
    3. School of Public Administration and Law, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Fuzhou 350002
  • Received:2024-08-09 Online:2025-10-25 Published:2025-11-05
  • Contact: Ansheng Huang E-mail:haszgfj@163.com

Abstract:

Objective: This paper constructs a triadic analytical framework of “forest reform-institution-rural households” to explore the mutual influence among the effectiveness of new round of collective forest tenure reform (hereinafter referred to as the effectiveness of the new forest reform), the functional efficiency of township forestry stations (hereinafter referred to as forestry station efficiency), and rural households’ income growth to provide a new perspective and empirical evidence for the reform and development of collective forest tenure, thereby offering policy insights for deepening the reform. Method: This paper adopts Chinese provincial panel data to construct a relevant indicator system. It utilizes the entropy weight method and the super-efficiency model (SBM) to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of the new forest reform and forestry station efficiency. Subsequently, a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model is established to investigate the mutual influence among the effectiveness of the new forest reform, forestry station efficiency, and rural households’ income growth. Result: 1) The effectiveness of the new forest reform, forestry station efficiency, and rural households’ income growth exhibit diversified characteristics across different regions, with a certain positive propelling effect among them. 2) The effectiveness of the new forest reform and rural households’ income growth demonstrate self-reinforcing effects, whereas forestry station efficiency, constrained by its own resource allocation conditions, exhibits a short-term self-inhibiting effect. 3) When impacted by their respective shocks, the effectiveness of the new forest reform and rural households’ income growth can both reach positive maximum peaks in the current period and sustain for 3-4 periods. In contrast, forestry station efficiency exhibits a negative response in the first period, which then turns positive and gradually declines towards stability. Conclusion: There is a mutual promotion and restriction relationship among the effectiveness of the new forest reform, forestry station efficiency, and rural households’ income growth. This paper argues that, based on the construction of a ternary collaborative mechanism, the self-reinforcing effect of the effectiveness of the new forest reform should be fully utilized to strengthen policy coordination and continuously advance collective forest tenure reform. Resources at forestry stations should be allocated reasonably, and construction investment should be increased to ensure that the effectiveness of the reform is translated into rural households’ income. Additionally, targeted policies need to be formulated to broaden rural households’ income sources, thereby achieving rural sustainable development and improving household living standards.

Key words: collective forest tenure reform, township forestry stations, rural households’ income growth, panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model

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