Comparison of Agriculture and Forestry Fiscal Subsidy Policies in China

Abstract

Great importance has been attached to the “Agriculture-Rural-Farmer” issue by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council of China. In recent years, a series of agricultural supporting subsidy policies, such as direct subsidies to grain, seed, material, and machinery purchases have been enforced, and these policies have greatly promoted the agricultural production and the incremental income of farmers. However, from the perspective of increasing the farmers’ income, although the subsidy coverage is expanding from fields to hilly areas where the farmers have made major contributions to the supply of wood and ecological security, the farmers have a low income without enough aid from the forestry fiscal subsidy policy. Foresters cannot enjoy the same policy support as farmers, because the level of forestry fiscal subsidies is obviously lower than the level of agricultural subsidies. Therefore, based on investigation, this article suggests giving more support to forest workers in terms of the promotion and optimization of forestation, forest tending, seeds and insurance subsidies, and further expanding the forestry subsidies’ category and scope and improving its standards.

KEYWORDS:

• agriculture
• forestry
• fiscal subsidy
• China

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Funding

This study is supported by the Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (No. YETP0778), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71403022), Beijing Municipal Social Science Foundation (No. 14JGB047), the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Project (No. 13JHQ047), the research project of the Social Science and Humanity on Young Fund of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 14YJC790022).