Abstract: Taking the articles about under-forest economy in the CNKI database during 2006—2015 as research object, this paper analyzed the development trend of research topic about under-forest economy by using information visualization analysis software CitespaceⅢ based on Java, and found that the current domestic research about under-forest economy mainly concentrated on forest tourism, under-forests planting, pattern research, under-forest breeding, development status and countermeasures, forestry industrialization. The development trend indicated that forest tourism and under-forest planting became the focus of under-forest economy research during 2006—2009; with the raise of collective forestry property right reform, under-forest breeding, pattern research and research of woodland resource became the research hot spot in 2012; After 2012, with the attention on forestry construction and green economy, forestry ecology development, the research topic mainly included forestry industrialization, business model, development status and countermeasures and existing problems, and showed various and scattered development trend.

Key words: under-forest economy