Advances in the Research on Returning Farmland to Forestry or Pasture in China and the General Approaches

The background and history of Returning Farmland to Forestry or Pasture (RFFP) both in China and foreign countries were studied. The advances in the research on thoughts and strategies, hill-closure for forestry, models and technologies, management circumstance in RFFP were carried out. Based on the experiments in over 20 stations and on-the-spot observation, the strategy that took hill-closure for forestry firstly and the artificial methods secondly was put forward as the general approaches for China’s RFFP.