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Capital Resources to the Countryside and the Flow within the Forestry：The Field Experience of Town S in Hubei Province

Guo Liang, School of Law of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Center for Rural China Governance.
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  1. Guo Liang, School of Law of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Center for Rural China Governance.
  • Online:2011-05-20 Published:2011-05-20
  • Contact: Guo Liang, School of Law of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Center for Rural China Governance. E-mail:guoliang2002002@sina.com
  • About author:Guo Liang, School of Law of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Center for Rural China Governance. 
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    This thesis is the phased subjects of “The Study on Contemporary Land System in China”(09YJA840007), which granted by Humanities and Social Science Research Item of Ministry of Education, and of the “Analysis on the Changes and Development of Land System since 20th with the Method of the Historical Sociology”(W2009003), which granted by Innovation Fund of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

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Abstract:

With further reform of the ownership of forests, profitaimed capital resources are being invested in opening up forestry on a large scale, which meets the business needs of the local governments. All of this started the initial momentum of the flow within the forestry. In the process, both informal and formal resources in the rural society have been fully utilized, thus stimulating the efficiency of the flow. On the surface, the flow is based on the voluntary principle, but indepth empirical studies have discovered that the flow momentum has been launched on the basis of farmers being mobilized and pushed, thus resulting in a conflict between rightness in operations and inequality in actuality. Due to the shaping power of the local society’s power connections over the powerprofit structure, the lone force to establish property ownership will not be capable of protecting farmers’ actual interests. In a sense, farmers’ increase in their land revenues depends not only on the new category of rights but also on the coordination between the new contract of property rights and the political environment that embeds it.

Key words: flow within forestry, property ownership， capital resources