It is valuable for understanding the relationships between resources flowing and envi-ronment and realizing the sustainable and supporting capacity of certain regional resources to their economic development to focus on the resources flowing and its dynamic characteristics in the social and economic system.Assuming that material input equals output,material flow analysis(MFA),which abides by the material balance principle,can be used to analyze resource flow through deforestation-production-consumption chain pertaining to forest resource.In order to have a quantitative comparison of fluxes of divergent forest products,the uniform physical units—timber volume equivalent (cubic meter)—is adopted to convert and calculate the amount of forest resource flows.Based on the statistics data of forest resource and its products including the data of their importation and exportation,this paper analyzed the flowing characteristics of the forest resource and forest products in China’s economic system during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period(1996～2000).The results showed that the amount of extraction or consumption of forest resources in China in the period is as large as16962×10,sup>4m³ per year,of which about 48.3%is imported from abroad.And also90.7%of native forest resources was flowed to the industry of manufactured log,saw-wood,veneer and so on,leaving only9.3%of its total for papermaking industry.So the paper pulp and the forest consumption by manufacturing paper had been chiefly depended upon importation of forest resources.Some 75%of forest resource in terminal consumption is primarily used in three categories that are architectural decoration,furniture producing and packing.Therefore,the authors suggest that China has to increase the utilization efficiency of forest resource and to increase the input of forest into the paper production for higher economic benefit for the purpose of controlling the exhaustion of forest resource and making it sustainable.The Strategies of making most of the forest resource and improving the ability to guarantee the supply security of native forest resource should be taken in China.