Returning farmland to forests can change the traditional and backward local production and life style, liberate a large number of rural laborers from the land with extensive cultivation and poor harvest, and make many areas with bad ecology and poor economy embark on the road of benign and coordinated development. Returning farmland to forests did not reduce grain production, but adjusted the land use structure, promoted the transfer and concentration of agricultural production factors, and increased grain production year after year under the condition of reducing planting area. The project of returning farmland to forests has become a landmark project in which the China government attaches great importance to ecological construction and earnestly implements the national convention, and has also been highly valued by the party and state leaders. "Doing a good job in returning farmland to forests and grazing land to grassland plays an important role in restoring ecology and improving people's livelihood. This is the right way to meet the requirements of Scientific Outlook on Development. It is necessary to further improve policies, consolidate achievements, and unremittingly do a good job in this matter that benefits the country and the people. "
Returning farmland to forest is to stop the reclamation of sloping farmland that is easy to cause soil erosion in a planned and step-by-step manner from the perspective of protecting and improving the ecological environment, and to plant trees and restore forest vegetation according to local conditions in accordance with the principle of suitable land and suitable trees.