Abstract: >

Since the establishment of new China the following investigations and research works during the last thirty years have been undertaken:

1. The vegetation of the subtropical and tropical forest region;

2. The vegetation of the temperate forest region;

3. The vegetation of the temperate steppe region;

4. The vegetation of the temperate desert region;

5. The vegetation of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau;

6. The vegetation types and regionalization of whole China as well as the vegetation mapping;

7. The environmental botany.

The following items or problems would be suggested to be further studied:

1. The fundamental principles of vegetation in China;

2. Vegetation mapping of different scales, including their compilation and surveying methods;

3. The classification of cultural plant communities and ecological characteristics of the economical plants;

4. The experimental research on photocoenosium and physiological photoecology;

5. The structure and function of the terrestrial ecosystems;

6. Plant ecology for the environmental protection;

7. Indicators of plants and plant communities.