Shallow Theory of the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest 

Yaling QIU 

School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, CHINA 

Abstract: Since the policy of returning farmland to forest in 1999 have been proposed, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan provinces took the lead in returning farmland to forest and grass, it was officially unveiled and the state council determine telephone meeting fully did not launch the project of returning farmland to forest in China until 2002. Object of this project was steep slopes having been cleared. the purpose is to stop the agri-cultural production on the slope of the upper Yangtze river, Yellow River shelter-forest region of serious soil erosion , instead of forest and grass vegetation recovery to realize the improvement of the ecological envi-ronment in western, the agricultural economy structure adjustment and the sustainable development of the whole society. According to the meeting report, the results of the first round of returning farmland to forest project were fruitful. In recent years, some provinces opened a new round of returning farmland to forest in succession. the superior issued instructions to consolidate the results made in the first round as well as the de-velopment work for the second round. Therefore, on the basis of analyzing the problems existing in the first round of job, the author puts forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for the second round. 

Keywords: Returning farmland to forest; New round; Suggestions