ABSTRACT
Focused on how changes in the bundle of rights to forests and forestland and particularly the use rights are separated from ownership through various contractual arrangements, this chapter reviews and examines China’s forestland tenure reforms in the past three decades. The new challenges of the reform are discussed. China’s tenure reforms not only offer lessons in practice and insights regarding land tenures in China and other countries where similar reforms are carried out, but also herald a new economic theory of land tenure and property rights.
