Current situations and trend of investigations on urban forest in China

The development of industry and increase of population result in the deterioration of urban environment, and more attention has been paid to the quality of living conditions. Urban forest, which is an effective way in improving the urban environment, has been extensively studied. In order to promote investigations on urban forest, this paper demonstrates the concept, characteristics, classification and scope of urban forest, and introduces current situations on urban forest investigation, existing problems and trend of development in our country from the aspects of research method, structure, function, maintenance and management of urban forest.