China News Service, Fuzhou, February 28 (Zheng Jiangluo) Lin Xudong, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Forestry Bureau, said in Fuzhou on the 28th that the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government continue to deepen forest rights reform and remove bottlenecks, which has effectively promoted the green development of forestry and increased the income of forest farmers. and forest areas are prosperous and stable.
“The province’s forest coverage rate has always ranked first in the country, the ecological quality of vegetation and the ecological civilization index have ranked first in the country, and the total output value of the forestry industry ranks among the top in the country.”
It is understood that in September 2023, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Collective Forest Rights System", fully absorbing the experience of forest reform in Fujian Province, and listed Fujian Province as one of the three pilot areas for deepening the reform of the collective forest rights system in the country. head.
Recently, the Fujian Provincial Government formulated and issued the "Implementation Plan for Fujian Province to Build a National Pioneer Area for Deepening the Reform of the Collective Forest Rights System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan") to speed up the pace of building Fujian Province into a national pioneer area for deepening the reform of the collective forest rights system and vigorously promote high-quality forestry. develop.
Lin Xudong introduced that the "Implementation Plan" clarifies the overall requirements, key tasks and safeguard measures for the construction of national forest reform pilot areas, and specifically proposes ten major measures for the construction of pioneer areas, including promoting the "separation of three rights", optimizing forest rights management, and promoting Large-scale joint-stock operations, promoting sustainable forest management, innovating logging systems, developing green industries, improving ecological compensation mechanisms, expanding forestry carbon sinks, promoting forestry financial innovation, and advancing the improvement of management services.
Lin Xudong pointed out that the "Implementation Plan" is an important guiding document for Fujian Province to deepen forestry reform currently and in the future. It is rich in content and has a lot of useful information. It proposes a series of policies and measures to "benefit the people and enterprises".
In terms of relaxing logging restrictions, Lin Xudong said that based on relaxation and relaxation, for logging in artificial commercial forests, the age limit for main logging will be cancelled, and exploration will be conducted to approve logging based on area; for small-scale logging by forest farmers, the notification and commitment method will be implemented to further simplify the approval procedures and implement Forestry operators have the right to dispose of and profit from forest trees.
Secondly, support large-scale operations.
According to reports, Fujian will improve the forest rights trading platform covering the entire province, encourage the exploration of subsidy policies for the transfer of forest land management rights, and optimize and integrate forest land resources through market-oriented means.
Carry out the standardization construction of new forestry management entities and promote large-scale operations through demonstration.
Encourage state-owned forest farms and forestry enterprises to strengthen cooperative operations with village collectives and forest farmers.
In terms of promoting scientific management, scientifically protect and utilize ecological public welfare forests and natural forests, explore and establish a management system based on forest management plans, and improve operating efficiency.
Implement actions to accurately improve the province's forest quality and improve forest conditions in key areas, promote greening and coloring of forest land, and create an ecological environment that is livable and suitable for industry.
In addition, provincial finance has arranged special funds to support the development of green industries such as bamboo industry, flowers and seedlings, forest economy, and eco-tourism.
Increase support in terms of forestry land use and infrastructure construction to promote the green development of industries.
According to reports, Fujian will continue to improve the construction of the forest chief system, strengthen forestry financial services, scientific and technological services, facilities and equipment services and social services, vigorously implement the smart forestry "123" project, improve the informatization level of forestry management services, and provide comprehensive services to forest farmers. Fast and excellent service.
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