Legislative dilemmas and improvement suggestions regarding the grassland–livestock balance

The grassland–livestock balance is a basic measure of grassland protection. As the measures of grassland–livestock balance have been abolished, it is necessary to enact a new statute to fill in the vacancy at central level. Analyzing the rules from the national and local regulations, this study summarized the shortcomings of these regulations, including that vacancy rules, ambiguous definition, insufficient public participation in the standard establishment process, and differentiated penalties in various regions. The legislators should insist on ecological priority, with due consideration given to the benefits of herdsmen, coordinate prohibition of grazing, grassland–livestock balance and eco-compensation, and convert the ideas of regulation. This study suggested specific contents as follows: Advancing the level of authority from the Departmental Rule to Administrative Regulation, redefining the scope of grass and livestock definition, adding hearing to implement public participation, and stipulating eco-compensation and penalties.