Based on the research of the forest inventory data of the seven provinces in East China,it was found that forestry land and non-forestry land were transferred into each other with the times.Most of the transfers were between arbor woodland,special shrub land,the immature forestland and the developed land that includes the farmland and the land used for building.The transfers in Shandong and He’ nan provinces were more significant than those in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces,and the transfers were slight in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces.It was a positive correlation between the change of forest cover rate and the number of the above-mentioned transfers.Moreover,the transfers were near balance.Once the balance was destroyed,a significant influence will be exerted to the provinces with low forest cover rate.