Abstract: China’s forestry industry has undergone radical changes since the founding of the country,with significant growth in forestry output value,increasingly rational forestry economic structure,and leapfrogging to become the world’s major forest products trading country.Under the new trend of economic development from high growth to high quality development,the forestry industry is facing the necessity and urgency to shift to “high quality development”.Based on the data related to the development of forestry industry since the founding of the country,this paper reviewed the past and analyzed the current development dilemma of China’s forestry industry,and tried to provide a basis for the realization of high-quality development of China’s forestry industry and the formulation of differentiated policies by relevant departments.