Abstract: Widely literature reviews are investigated to trace the origin of Chinese forestry graduate education. Based on basic data analysis, development course of Chinese forestry graduate education is divided into four stages according to its general situation, scale changing and features of different stages. Then, features of the subject fields, overview of forestry development and the forestry graduate education on each stage are analyzed and summarized. From the summarization we can see that the scale of forestry graduate education is affected by the development of Chinas graduate education, and closely related to Chinese forestry development. Serving the Chinese forestry construction and scientific research, it contributes a lot to forestry business.