State owned forest farm of Qian'an County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province

State owned Forest Farm

The state-owned forest farm is a productive forestry institution that cultivates and protects forest resources. It was called state-owned forest farm before 1990s. After more than 50 years of construction, the total number of state-owned forest farms in China has reached 4507, distributed in more than 1600 counties (cities, banners, districts) of 31 provinces (districts, cities). At present, there are 660000 employees. The main tasks of forest farms are to expand forest resources, improve forest quality, give full play to the productive potential of state-owned forest land, and improve ecological, social and economic benefits.

brief introduction

The state-owned forest farm is a productive forestry institution that cultivates and protects forest resources. It was called state-owned forest farm before 1990s. All means of production and products such as forest land and trees in state-owned forest farms are state property. In order to accelerate the cultivation of forest resources, protect and improve the ecology, the state-owned forest farms in China were established by the way of state investment in key ecologically fragile areas and large areas of concentrated and contiguous state-owned barren hills and wasteland in the early days of the founding of new China. They are specialized in afforestation and forest management and protection.

scale

After more than 50 years of construction, the total number of state-owned forest farms in China has reached 4507, distributed in more than 1600 counties (cities, banners, districts) of 31 provinces (districts, cities). At present, there are 660000 employees. The total operating area is 930 million mu, including 750 million mu of forest land, 600 million mu of forest area and 2.2 billion cubic meters of forest stock, accounting for 18%, 23% and 17% of the national forest land area, forest area and forest stock respectively.

Main tasks

The main tasks of forest farms are to expand forest resources, improve forest quality, give full play to the productive potential of state-owned forest land, and improve ecological, social and economic benefits;

Basic organization

The state-owned forest farm is the basic organization of China's forest region. At the same time, it also undertakes the tasks of education, health, public security and social management in the forest region, and some take charge of the villages. the characteristic of state-owned forest farms is that they intersect with rural areas, generally across villages and counties, and some large-scale forest farms cross cities, which is difficult to manage. there are many names for state-owned forest farms, such as forestry bureau, forest management office, sand control station, etc. state owned forest farms are divided into timber forest farms, shelter forest farms, economic forest farms, scenic forest farms, etc. According to the budget system, it can be divided into ecological forest farms and commercial forest farms. According to the management system, provincial forest farms account for 10%, prefecture (city) forest farms account for 15%, and county forest farms account for 75%. state owned forest farms have played an important backbone, demonstration and leading role in China's forestry development, especially in the aspect of forest cultivation and protection, which has been recognized by the society. However, in the long-term development process, state-owned forest farms have accumulated many difficulties and problems, such as the economic crisis of forest farms, the living difficulties of workers, the serious lag of infrastructure construction, and the lack of sustainable development The reform of state-owned forest farms is imminent.

Reform situation

On January 10, 2019, the national forestry and grassland work conference held in Hefei revealed that the reform task of China's 4612 state-owned forest farms has been basically completed, accounting for 95% of the total number of 4855 state-owned forest farms. 28 provinces have completed the provincial self acceptance work. The overall progress of the reform is smooth, and the achievements of ecological protection, people's livelihood Protection, system innovation and activation mechanism are obvious.