Forestry investment and output value of forestry in China

摘要

The relationship between output value of forestry and forestry investment is considered as an imperative issue in forestry economy. In this paper, Granger causality tests are applied to examine the causal relationship between the output value of forestry and the forestry investment for China during 1998 to 2012. Empirical evidence reveals forestry investment and output value of forestry are co-integrated and there is unidirectional causality running from forestry investment to the output value of forestry but not vice versa. With the purpose of conquering the lack of forestry investment, government need to speed up the finance expenditure on forestry, to expand sources of forestry investment and to improve efficiency of investment.