Document No. 1 may take substantial steps in forest rights reform.

One of the contents of the Central Committee's "No. 1 document" in 2015 is likely to focus on promoting the reform of the rural collective property right system. As an important part of it, forestry reform is about to take substantial steps. A reporter from the Economic Information Daily recently learned from authoritative sources that China will issue a series of documents for comprehensively deepening forestry reform in 2015, and revise and revise a series of laws and regulations. It is reported that this round of reform includes two major aspects: the reform of the system and mechanism of state-owned forest areas and state-owned forest farms and the reform of the collective forest right system, specifically including the formation of a preliminary solution to the debts of financial institutions in state-owned forest areas and state-owned forest farms, as well as important measures such as initiating the pilot reform of joint-stock rights of forestry collective assets.

According to authoritative sources, there are two major priorities in the work plan for comprehensively deepening forestry reform in 2015: first, to build a pilot area for the comprehensive reform of collective forestry and start the pilot reform of joint-stock rights in forestry collective assets, which will be an important part of the reform of the rural collective property right system to be launched by the central government. At present, the work is in full swing. It is reported that in order to guide and standardize the rural property rights trading market and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties involved in forest rights transactions, the State Forestry Administration and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce recently jointly issued the model texts of "Collective Forest Land contract" and "Collective Forest right transfer contract." Experts expect that according to this development situation, the opinions of the State Council on comprehensively deepening the reform of the collective forest right system may be released in the near future.

According to Chen Xiaohua, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, the important purpose of the reform of the rural collective property rights system is to actively develop farmers' joint-stock cooperation. to give farmers the six rights of possession, income, paid withdrawal, mortgage, guarantee and inheritance of collective assets. Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the reform of collective forest rights will also follow this line of thinking. Compared with the reform of the right system related to rural collective land, the forest right reform starts relatively late, but the direction is very similar, which is to contract the collective forest land to individual farmers by confirming the rights and shares, and then transfer and concentrate through the transaction market. through the appropriate scale of management and construction, give play to its function of increasing farmers' property income. With regard to the reform of collective forest rights, it is also emphasized to improve the registration and certification work of confirming rights, to promote the circulation of management rights in an orderly manner, and to standardize the transaction market for the transfer of property rights, and it is also possible to carry out the "separation of three rights" for the rights of forest land, just as for agricultural land.

The second is to reform the state-owned forest farms and forest areas. Li Guoxiang told the Economic Information Daily that there were many phenomena in the past that there was no distinction between politics and affairs in the forest areas of state-owned forest farms, so the reform must give priority to straightening out the system and mechanism. It is reported that The reform plans put forward by the government include: defining the orientation of ecological public welfare function of state-owned forest farms, separating government and affairs from enterprises, defining the property right system of forest resources in state-owned forest areas, and orderly stopping commercial logging of natural forests. to establish a new state-owned forest farm management system in which the central government entrusts the provincial government to assume the main responsibility and carries out the hierarchical management of the local government. Establish and improve the forest resources supervision system with clear responsibility and hierarchical management.

In addition, efforts will be made to break the bottleneck of forestry investment in 2015. At present, forestry is the largest investment depression, and experts say that there are three major restricting factors: first, China's forestry development has been emphasizing production while neglecting the market for a long time; second, forestry production cycle is long and capital investment is large. The traditional financing methods do not match the production cycle of forest products. Third, some policy restrictions affect the development of forestry market, and some market subjects are kept out of forestry because of the difficulties in cutting, evaluation, mortgage and financing. In addition, according to the funds invested by the central government in forestry in 2014, the average investment per mu of woodland is only 38.5 yuan, and the infrastructure in the forest area is extremely weak, so there is an urgent need to further expand investment.

According to people familiar with the matter, in terms of reform measures, on the one hand, we will actively strive for greater financial input, and on the other hand, we will give full play to the investment potential of financial capital to attract large-scale flows of all kinds of funds to the forestry industry. for example, policies will clearly provide forestry with long-term low-interest loans.