Yang Chao, director of the State Forestry Administration's State-owned Forest Farm and Forest Seedling Work Station, said that in the preparation of the provincial-level reform implementation plan, all localities have made scientific design and innovation in defining the nature of state-owned forest farms, rationalizing the management system and supervising forest resources, with outstanding highlights. It not only grasped the direction of public welfare reform, strengthened the supervision of forest resources, but also increased financial support, defined the growth target and path of forest resources, and formulated long-term development plans.
At present, the pilot projects in six provinces, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Gansu, Hunan, Shandong and Hebei, have passed the national acceptance, with remarkable results and effectively rationalized the management system. According to the principle of streamlining organization and scale operation, the number of state-owned forest farms in the pilot area was optimized and integrated from 832 to 6 15, a decrease of 26%. The career establishment decreased from 45 194 to 2998 1, a decrease of 34% compared with that before the reform. Personnel and institutional funds were included in the local financial budget, achieving the goal of "supporting people because of forests".
At the same time, the income level of employees in the experimental area has been greatly improved, and the average wage of employees has reached 44,000 yuan, an increase of 8 1% compared with that before the reform, which is close to or reaches the average level of similar local units. The basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance for employees have achieved full coverage, and the participation rate has reached 100%, which is 35% and 42% higher than that before the reform.
In addition, the logging volume of state-owned forest farms in the pilot areas has dropped significantly, and forest resources have been effectively protected; It also initially innovated the development mechanism, effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of employees and enhanced the vitality of development.