Abstract:The construction of new-type urbanization demands regarding human beings as first and foremost,attaching great importance to ecological safety,and raising the construction level of urban ecological civilization.In order to explore the impact of accelerated urbanization on forestry development,this paper analyzes the role of forestry playing in town construction,and then analyzes the opportunities and challenges urbanization brings to forestry development from both positive and negative aspects,and summarizes some experience accumulated by the developed countries in dealing with the process of urbanization of forestry development.The urbanization of China’s forestry should make innovation in programming,legal system construction,funding,personnel incentives,business pattern reform,ecological compensation mechanism,in order to achieve the positive interaction between urbanization and forestry development.