Abstract:

【Objective】The purpose of Natural Forest Protection Project in Helongjiang Province is to find out whether the implementation of the Natural Forest Protection Project (NFPP) in Heilongjiang Province has achieved the effect expected in terms of the state and the obstacles or resistance it may have encountered. This study also aims to track and evaluate the performance of the NFPP area.【Method】From three dimensions of forest ecology, industrial economy and social stability, the performance evaluation index system of the NFPP area in Heilongjiang Province was constructed. The performance evaluation model and the obstacle factor discrimination model were constructed for the NFPP area by combining the entropy weight with the technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS). This was undertaken to evaluate the 1997-2019 performances and discriminate between the obstacle factors for the NFPP area in Heilongjiang Province.【Result】(1) From 1997 to 2019, the performance evaluation index for the NFPP area in Heilongjiang Province increased from 0.011 5 to 0.799 7; the performance evaluation index for the forest ecological dimension, the social stability dimension, and the industrial economy dimension increased from 0.012 1 to 0.711 2, from 0.010 2 to 0.739 7, and from 0.013 4 to 0.765 5, respectively. (2) The 1997-2019 average value of the obstacle index of the industrial economy dimension, the forest ecological dimension, and the social stability dimension stood at 46.18%, 27.62% and 26.20%, respectively.【Conclusion】The overall performance level and the performance level for each dimension of NFPP phase II significantly improved compared with those of the NFPP pilot and NFPP phase I. From the perspective of dynamic development, the industrial economy dimension was the main obstacle factor for NFPP. The top five obstacle factors in the indicator layer were found to be plantation timber output, sales volume of wood products, total output value for forest-related industries in the primary industry, timber output for the project area, and the output value for forestry tourism and leisure services.

Key words: Natural Forest Protection Project area, performance evaluation, obstacle factor screening, Heolongjiang Province