Analysis on the Effect of Employment from the Afforestation Action in China

The paper firstly introduces the framework of forestry actions to tackle the climate change;the status and mechanism of afforestation in China,and some practices to show the effect on employment by afforestation;Then further calculate the direct,indirect and induced employment created by afforest and the following forest management on the basis of the labor input standard and the input-output method;finally,it comes up with some suggestions to encourage the afforestation and employment.The research results show that,the afforestation action to tackle climate change can create vast quantities of green jobs;from 2005 to 2008 and form 2009 to 2020,the total number of short-term standard direct employment created by afforestation are approximately 5.77 and 1.83 million respectively,the number of new jobs for forest resources management is 89.3～111.6 and 77.6～97 thousand respectively;Meanwhile,the effect of afforestation on indirect and induced employment is also significant.