Abstract:Public-welfare forests contribute many ecological benefits for the human community compared with the commercial woodlands. The vegetation of Zhejiang had been havoc in the 1950‘s. The composition and plant diversity of six major communities in ecological public-welfare forests of Zhejiang were analyzed used the sampling method. The six types are: shrubs contained more young pine trees (SMYPT), shrubs contained more young evergreen broad-leaved trees (SMYET), pine forest (dominated by pine trees, PF), mixed ...