Abstract: The paper briefly reviews the introduction of forest certification in China,i.e. from the concepts to concrete behaviors and to administration work,summarizes the activities of national forest certification,which includes building-up organizations,establishing the publications and network,formulating the relative standards and codes,developing international cooperation and exchange,making experiments on forest certification,and so on. In view of China's national conditions and forestry conditions,the paper analyses four characteristics of national forest certification in future development,i.e. supervising by government,co-existing and mutual acceptance of the multiple forest certification systems,classifying forest certification,and linking with other administration work.

Key words: forest certification in China, development course, development trend