Returning farmland to forests is from the point of view of protecting and improving the ecological environment, systematically stopping the cultivation of slopes susceptible to soil erosion, and planting trees and restoring forest vegetation according to the local conditions, according to the local conditions. The construction of the project of returning farmland to forests includes two aspects: returning farmland to forests and afforestation of forestable barren mountains and wastelands. For a long time, China has blindly cut down, reclaimed and cultivated steep slopes and sandy land, causing serious soil erosion and wind-sand disasters. Floods, droughts, sandstorms and other natural disasters occur frequently, people's production and life are seriously affected, the national ecological security is seriously threatened.

The state protects the ownership of forest trees on land returned to forest. Self-return to the forest, the land contract management right to enjoy the right to ownership of the forest on the retired land; entrusted to others to retire or cooperate with others to retire, should be agreed in the contract on the ownership of the forest on the retired land. After returning farmland to forests, the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Forest Law and the Grassland Law, issue certificates of forest ownership, confirm the ownership and the right of use and, in accordance with the law, carry out the procedures for registering changes in the land. The land contract shall be adjusted accordingly.

On the basis of the will of the land management right holder, all kinds of social subjects are encouraged to lease, contract, joint venture, cooperation and other forms of implementation of the return of farmland to the forest project, leading enterprises, leading enterprises, leading enterprises, leading enterprises, and other modes of operation, professional cooperatives, joint-stock cooperative system, large family contracting, family forestry, joint households. The distribution of benefits is negotiated between the two sides to solve the problem, and mobilize the whole society's enthusiasm for forestry.

Farmers applying for subsidies for returning farmland to forests need to apply to the village committee or township forestry station for the record after the plot reaches the scope of fallow. After the township forestry station is reported and agreed to by the township government, a person will be arranged to conduct on-site measurement of the fallow land. The area is based on the plane area. After confirmation by the farmers, a new round of fallow land reforestation contract will be signed with the township, and only after the fallow land reforestation contract is signed will the state recognize the farmers to implement the fallow land reforestation project and honor the subsidies.