Objective/Meaning  The cooperative management mode of farmers’ participation in the state-owned forest farm (forest ticket system) launched in Sanming City of Fujian province was another innovation in the reform of collective forest rights. Through the analysis and summary of the practice of forest ticket system in the recent stage, it aimed to explore a new way for the reform of rural collective forestry.

  Methods/Procedures  The SWOT analysis was used to clarify the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats of the reform of forest ticket system, so as to find the development strategies.

  Results/Conclusions  The analysis results showed that the reform of forest ticket system based on the cooperation between the peasant households and the state-owned forest farms had obvious advantages, and the opportunities of forest ticket system reform were greater than the threats. Based on this, it was proposed that in the future, it was necessary to expand the scope of forest ticket system reform, focus on improving the support-guarantee system construction of forestry development, and continue to improve the construction of information platform and trading platform. In addition, it was necessary to strengthen the risk prevention and control, improve the forest insurance system, carry out the moderate management, strengthen the management and prevent the decision-making risk, thus to realize the preservation and appreciation of forestry assets.