The rapid development of forestry program in China provides us with a great opportunity for revising the management guidelines for China's diminishing forest ecosystems. There are also many challenges that will be faced to accomplish these tasks. By examining the current status of China's forestry, we found that, on one hand, both the macro forest policy and micro forestry practice lack basis of ecological supports; on another, it is not enough for ecologists to solely develop ecological theories. Ther...