Transfer of Farmers'Forestland in Forest Tenure Reform of Sanming City in Fujian Province

This paper analyzes the farmers'forestland transfer conditions from three aspects, namely, the current transfer scale, transfer willingness and causes of transfer based on a survey study on 484 households of 20 villages from Jiangle, Yong'an, Mingxi, Ninghua and Qingliu counties in Sanming City, Fujian Province. The research findings can be summarized as the following: the average household population is large, while the number of labor is small; the forestland transfer direction was mainly inflow and most of the transer happens in local villages; the productive factor market plays a less important role during the transfer; there is a strengthening trend of the famers爷dependence on their land, the main cause of these inflows being the ever increasing revenue while that of the outflows being the shortage of labor.