Focusing on the study of sub-tropical forest ecosystems, the main task of the station is locked on forest ecology and conservation biology of sub-tropical forests, especially the pattern of species diversity and its maintenance, dynamic process of ecosystem, the driving forces of ecosystem degradation and the associated restoration and the biological base for some important ecological phenomena. At the same time,the station will extent its research work to landscape scale acting an important role in monitoring and recovering the sub-tropical mountainous environment of Western China.