Xinhua reports Chinese experts and scholars urged the government to improve its pasture management policies to better protect the interests of herders at an international anthropology conference held Friday.A group of experts on pasture management said the Chinese government should adjust and improve some of its policies in the pasture areas at panels on nomadic culture and development of the 16th congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).
Yang Li, economic and management professor of the Inner Mongolia University, said that some of the unequal grassland policies have left the herders vulnerable to land-use right violations.
China's reform was led by a group of villagers in the eastern province of Anhui that secretly abandoned the collective system and divided farmland among the households, which was at the time against Chinese law. Later, the practice was widely promoted as the household responsibility system across the country and triggered economic reform.
However, what works for farmland has not worked out so well for grassland, Yang said, adding that distributing the grassland to households has created many problems.
