TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of different factors on forestry production, with an aim to explore the degree of connection between forestry economic growth and influencing factors such as forestry investment, labor input, afforestation area, scientific and technologies progress, and the reform of property-rights regimes.Design/methodology/approach According to the data of China Forestry Statistical Yearbook from 1978 to 2017, this paper uses the grey correlation analysis to observe and analyze the factors influencing China’s forestry economics growth.Findings The results show that capital investment demonstrates the largest impact on the forestry output value, followed by property system, afforestation area, labor input and technologies progress. The correlation coefficients of the above factors are 0.874451654,0.85827468,0.835138412,0.832985604 and 0.825747493. This means that forestry capital investment plays a major role in contributing to forest economic growth; forest property system also plays a positive role in the growth of forestry economy.Originality/value This paper uses continuous data collected during 1978‒2017, which are quite extensive as compared to data used in the existing research, considering the influencing factors are comprehensive, especially the impact of property right system reform on forestry economic growth.
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SN  - 2631-3030
DO  - 10.1108/FER-04-2019-0009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/FER-04-2019-0009
AU  - Ke Shuifa
AU  - Qiao Dan
AU  - Chen Zhangchun
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Analysis of the influencing factors on China’s forestry economic growth based on grey correlation model
T2  - Forestry Economics Review
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 17
EP  - 31
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -