Ming Liu
China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center,
State Forestry Administration

Forest coverage increased first, and then turned down, displaying “U” curve from the historic perspective. Forest resources have displayed an obvious increment with international comparison form year 1949. By using the method of panel data regression, this article puts up a research about the influencing factors of forest including its quantity and quality. This study believes that forest coverage and forest stock volume have been increasing as a whole accompany with some irregular fluctuating. However, both of them have different changing law and different influencing factors if we take regression analysis with them as dependent variable respectively and with some similar independent variables. So this article concludes that government should distinguish and make good use of it as much as possible. Meanwhile, continue to propel the key forestry programs, increase forestry investment, and stabilize forest property right system.