Founded in 1964, the Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry (RISF), Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF) is a comprehensive subtropical forestry research institute combining research, technology promotion and education.
The institute mainly focuses on the basic, fundamental problems concerning the subtropical forestry construction of China, with efforts on theories and applied technologies of the cultivation of bamboos and non-timber forest, cultivation of high-yield forestry, construction of forestry ecosystem, etc.
The institute has four research departments working on 17 areas including ecosystem and environment protection, forestry biologic engineering, tree breeding and cultivation, bamboos, non-timber forest, biological technology, etc. Over 65% of the scientific and technological achievements have been applied in more than 20 provinces (regions), which have achieved remarkable ecological, economic and social benefits.
The institute has built 34 provincial research platforms, 4 Forestry Administration’s location research stations, and offers technological support to Hangzhou’s building of Forestry Administration’s Xixi Wetland Ecological Location Station. It has built more than 600hm2 of various experimental forests and subtropical trees germ plasm banks, and set up 5 bamboo botanic gardens which collected more than 420 bamboo species in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong province since 1974.
Since 1964, the institute has won 104 awards on science and technology at national and provincial levels, of which 28 were national awards. It has also been granted 140 patents, set 82 international, national and bureau-level standards including 1 international standard.
For more information, please visit: http://risfcaf.caf.ac.cn.
