It is widely acknowledged that the current Forest Law has not been able to adapt to the construction of ecological civilization and the sustainable development of forestry and amendments are required due to the fundamental transformation of the strategy for forestry development in the current situation. In order to understand the awareness and perceptions of the different stakeholders on China?s Forest Law and the need for forest legislation during the forestry production and development, field work in Sanming City, Fujian Province has to be done in the forms of questionnaire and interview. Based on the results and analysis of 93 in-depth interviews, this study finding that (1) Forest law does not match with the forestry operation and management, forest felling system and forest land usufruct system should be perfected, (2) Compensation system for forestry of ecological benefit and protection mechanism of the ownership of the forestry law should be improved and (3) Proper forest ownership pattern should be established by the future new forestry law system.
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