Usufruct of Forest in Continental Legal Family and Reform of Management Right of Forest in China

The Opinion of Promoting the Reform of Collective Forest Property Right System Overall in 2008 has strengthened farmers usufruct of forest. But the opinion belongs to the category of policy. From the viewpoint of real right, although the management right of forest has been regulated as a typical real right, it still lacks special rules corresponding to the characteristics of forest. In continental legal family, from Roman Law to the modern civil codes，the usufruct of forest always exists, whose structure is similar to the right that the opinion in 2008 wants to construct. Research on this institution can be used for construction of the related rules of real rights in China.