Abstract:

Fujian is the first province in the country to reform collective forest property right. Purpose of the reformation is not only to let every operator to have own forestland to manage, but also to increase the quantity and quality of the forest resources, which would integrate equity and efficiency. However, the results of investigation demonstrated that the collective forestland tenure reform in Fujian achieved the target of equity but not efficiency. The contradiction between the two targets reflected the confliction between the individual household responsibility system and the request of operating forestland in scale, as well as the confliction between the individual household responsibility system and other forestry policies.

Key words: collective forest, equity, efficiency, property right