| As China’ s economy enters the new normal, the economic growth mechanism of traditional forestry
industry has little effect. If forestry industry wants to achieve high-quality development, which increases the gross output
value of forestry industry and promotes the optimization and upgrading of forestry industrial structure, it must rely on the
human capital. Based on the forestry panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2000-2018, it empirically tested the impact
of human capital on the development quality of forestry industry, and explored the mediating role of technological progress
and the moderating role of physical capital input. The results show that human capital significantly positively affects the
development quality of forestry industry. Among them, compared with the coefficient of human capital on the total output
value of forestry industry, its influence on the upgrading of forestry industrial structure is slightly weaker, indicating that in the rationalization and upgrading of forestry industrial structure, compared with the huge number of forestry labor force, the real
high level of human capital is insufficient. Technological progress has a significant intermediary effect between human capital
and the development quality of forestry industry. It shows that forestry talents can absorb and imitate advanced production
technology, promote the replacement of modern production factors to traditional production factors, improve the production
efficiency of forestry, and realize the high-quality development of forestry industry by virtue of their own endowment ability
and knowledge level. Insufficient investment of physical capital weakens the influence of human capital on the development
quality of forestry industry. It indicates that the development of the forestry industry needs a lot of financial support, and not only
relying on government investment which can not effectively support the transformation of the forestry industry, but also need to
introduce private capital. Based on this, it is suggested to enhance the construction of forestry talents, to improve their treatment,
and take the road of promoting forestry through science and education and strengthening forestry with talents, to actively absorb
the management experience and advanced technology of developed countries and enhance the content of forestry science and
technology, to introduce private capital investment and inject capital and vitality into the development of forestry industry. |
