Abstract: In order to sum up the experience and to explore our own way of forestry inventory and planning, this paper proposed that the work of the past 40 years should be treated historically and dialectically. The paper cited facts from several aspects to demonstrate that our achievements were principal but lessons were deep.On the basis of summarizing the past experience and lessons, our objectives for forest inventory and planning were proposed: to do the inventory of forest resources in time, to establish and supervise properly the resources archives, to know well the growth dynamics and to find out the change pattern, to develop energetically forestry division, planning and design and various specialized surveys to provide arguments for scientific management, and finally to introduce continuously new techniques for the modernization of survey and planning. For the realization of the above mentioned objectives, the papper stressed, it is imperative to establish administrative system of resources survey suitable to our national conditions. Within this system, the standards should be unified, surveys and managements should be carried out in classified levels. In this way, the forestry inventory and planning would be regarded as legal routines for forestry production and construction. Forest resources should be administrated in a unified pattern. Technical trainning and scientific research should be emphasized.