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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 226-246.DOI: 10.11686/cyxb2022471

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Chinese grassland insurance development model, practical difficulties and system construction

Tao QIN1(), Cai-xia ZHU1(), Jian-he WANG2, Jin ZHANG2   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,Beijing Forestry University,Beijing 100083,China
    2.Forestry and Grassland Work Station of Inner Mongolia,Hohhot 010011,China
  • Received:2022-11-30 Revised:2023-01-12 Online:2023-10-20 Published:2023-07-26
  • Contact: Cai-xia ZHU

Abstract:

Grassland is an important ecological security barrier, animal husbandry base and carbon reservoir carrier in China, and building a risk guarantee system with grassland insurance as the core is of great value for protecting the grassland ecological environment, promoting rural revitalization in pastoral areas and achieving the ‘dual carbon’ goal of peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060,and it plays a key role in global climate governance. Through literature review and qualitative comparative analysis, it is found that the United States, Canada and France, among others, have established different forms of grassland product insurance systems, with index insurance as the core mechanism to transfer forage risks. However, Chinese grassland insurance is currently in the exploration stages. A current pilot phase, has not yet established a product system that is aligned with Chinese national conditions. During the pilot work, many constraints have emerged. There are some difficulties in collecting premiums, the promotion of the system lacks uniformity, the product supply power is insufficient, there is no theoretical basis for determination of premium rates, and the cost of determining loss claims is too high. Therefore, China needs to improve the grassland insurance policy system and product system as soon as possible, and build a linkage mechanism for central and local premium subsidies. Improvement of the multi-level disaster risk protection system and innovation introduction should include: The development model of a “comprehensive insurance+index insurance”; Development of diversified insurance products to meet the diversified risk management needs of insured entities; Promotion of the process of grassland risk zoning and rate determination, and establishing a differentiated dynamic pricing mechanism; Formulation of unified technical standards for survey and loss assessment; Improvement of the underwriting claim mechanism; Improvement of the level of grassland insurance technology and enhancement of the innovation level; And increase in the service capabilities of insurance products.

Key words: grassland insurance, international experience, operation mode, realistic dilemma, system construction