Abstract: This article carries out a review on the path of collective forest tenure change in China.Then it brings a narrative of the collectively-ow ned forest tenure reform situation at present.The article pointes out the issues which have existed in the collective forest tenure reform, and makes an analysis on the reasons of those issues, and puts forward some suggestions about taking forest farmers as the main body in forest management, involvng forest workers' in the reform, promotion of forest land and foresttrading, developing the ecological forestscientifically and reasonably, reforming forest cutting quota system and forestry taxes system and establishment of the platform of forest tenure trading.

Key words: institutional change, forestry property right institutions, reason, suggestions