Ecological public welfare forest construction is an effective mean to improve sustainable forest management. This paper analyzed the effects of ecological public welfare construction on the quantity , quality and structure of forest resource , based on the survey data in Lin' an. The results show that ecological public welfare construction will play a positive role in improving sustainable management , if farmer income mainly comes from non-agri culture sector or non-wood forest products. Increasing the compensation standard is not the necessary condition to improve ecological public welfare forest sustainable management.

Ecological public welfare; Sustainable forest management; Non-wood forest product; Lin' an of Zhejiang