Understanding Household Vulnerability and Relative Poverty in Forestry Transition: A Study on Forestry-Worker Families in China’s Greater Khingan Mountains State-Owned Forest Region

China’s logging ban policy has profoundly transformed the forestry industry, creating substantial impacts for forestry-worker households. Empirical evidence is needed to examine whether and how severe transition produces vulnerability relative poverty affected This paper samples households from Greater Khingan Mountains state-owned forest region as study subjects evaluate their household vulnerabilities with LVI approach proposed by IPCC. computes scores of families further identifies relationships between selected household’s socio-economic factors estimated OLS regression. derives a sleuth valuable points. (1) The majority have had suffer downsized, vulnerable livelihoods escalated due policy’s impact. (2) Poverty closely connects vulnerability, where more impoverished household, it is. is, however, not only factor affecting vulnerability. Other factors, particularly public social-financial are interconnected and, thus, compound issue. (3) Factors, e.g., family size, age gender head, bank deposits, life job satisfaction, which typically very beneficial improving poverty. (4) Regular financial assistance programs, commonly-trusted one-off compensation program, might provide solid support addressing long-term contributes broader understanding improved program development workers vulnerabilities.