Legal basis: Regulations on the Implementation of Forest Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 15 The state protects the legitimate rights and interests of forest, forest and woodland operators according to law. No unit or individual may encroach on the trees legally owned by the operators and the forest land used by them.
Operators of timber forests, economic forests and firewood forests shall enjoy the right to operate, the right to income and other legitimate rights and interests according to law.
Operators of shelter forests and special-purpose forests have the right to obtain compensation for forest ecological benefits.
Eighteenth forest management units to build engineering facilities that directly serve forestry production within the scope of forest land they operate, and need to occupy forest land, it shall be approved by the competent forestry department of the people's government at or above the county level; If other engineering facilities need to convert forest land into non-forestry construction land, the examination and approval procedures for construction land must be handled according to law.
The engineering facilities directly serving forestry production mentioned in the preceding paragraph refer to:
(1) facilities for cultivating and producing seeds and seedlings;
(2) Facilities for storing seeds, seedlings and timber;
(3) skidding lanes and hauling lanes;
(4) Forestry scientific research, experiment and demonstration bases;
(five) wildlife protection, forest protection, forest pest control, forest fire prevention and wood quarantine facilities;
(six) water supply, power supply, heating, gas supply and communication infrastructure.