Abstract: Based on referring to relative information and field investigation, from the perspectives of forest succession & regenerative law and forest sustainable management, three types of techniques and models were put forward for forest ecological functions restoration in mountainous area of southern Lanzhou, namely the tending & transforming techniques and model of natural secondary forest, the close-to-nature management techniques and model of present artificial forest and the forest constructing techniques and model in circumjacent area of forest edges, all of which would be expected to provide technical support for forest ecological function restoration and improvement in natural forest area of south Lanzhou.

Key words: south Lanzhou, forest, restoration of ecological function, techniques and models