Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Collective Forest Tenure System.

This Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Collective Forest Tenure System is a sectoral policy document. The Plan sets a goal for the collective forest tenure system by 2025, aiming to achieve clear ownership, unified rights and responsibilities, strict protection, orderly circulation, and effective supervision. On this basis, the Plan further promotes the sustained growth of forest resources, the continuous improvement of forest ecological quality, the continuous improvement of forest development conditions, and the continuous increase of farmers' income by continuing to deepen reforms, further developing moderate scale forestry management, promoting more scientific and efficient forest management, improving support and protection systems, and diversifying ways to increase the value of forest rights,
The Plan outlines eight main tasks to be achieved by 2025. 1. The Plan advocates the separation of ownership, contracting rights, and business management rights of collective forest land, ensuring stability in these rights. 2. It promotes moderate-sized forest farms and encourages various approaches like leasing, equity participation, and cooperation to transfer forest land management rights. 3. It emphasizes prudent forest management, defining the boundaries of public welfare forests and natural forests based on scientific criteria and respecting farmers' rights. 4. It encourages to support the protection of tree ownership rights by implementing a quota-based policy for tree felling, removing age restrictions for commercial forests, and ensuring transparent approval processes. 5. There's a focus on supporting industrial development, enhancing the supply capacity of key forest products, and fostering leading forestry industries in provinces, cities, and counties. It also stresses the development of eco-friendly industries like eco-tourism while strictly prohibiting illegal activities such as building villas and golf courses in forest areas. 6. The Plan emphasize exploring and improving mechanisms to realize the value of ecological products. This includes establishing a comprehensive carbon sink measurement and monitoring system, encouraging carbon-emitting enterprises and the public to participate in forest carbon sink projects, and developing a forestry carbon trading system. 7. The Plan emphasize increased financial support. It promotes green finance and considers including services related to forest rights transactions and deep processing of forest products in the scope of green finance support. 7. the Plan addresses historical issues, integrating and transferring historical forest tenure registration data and resolving problems related to overlapping land types and ownership. It aims to achieve real-time data exchange and sharing between the real estate registration information platform and the comprehensive forest tenure supervision platform.