By Su Yang, Management World Magazine & He Siyuan, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China Academy of Sciences

Research Report, No.105, 2021 (Total 6170) 2021-4-28

Abstract: Mount Wuyi National Park, one of the institutional pilot projects, was built in light of the National Ecological Construction Pilot Program in Fujian province of China. Mount Wuyi National Park boasts high ecological values in the eastern part of China, whereas it is relatively hard for proper management due to fragmented landscape, dense population and ambiguous attribution of land property right ownership. Though it covers a large area of land, the level of greenization is low. The pilot management practice of natural conservation was launched quite early, but it was plagued by an overlapping management paradigm before the national park system reform was introduced. In light of the Pilot Implementation Project in Mount Wuyi National Park and based on the relevant overall planning, this paper gives an analysis of the pilot experience gained by the Park. It notes that the Park needs to address some choking points relating to cross-province management, capital mechanism, land unified management and franchised operation respectively. It maintains that the system building of Mount Wuyi National Park needs to enhance the integration of conservation scale and management mode, improve the system of franchised operation in terms of practical application, and create a model of green development for ecological conservation pilot areas.

Keywords: ecological conservation, national park, Mount Wuyi, collective forest, easement