The Belt and Road Initiative is an important approach China has proposed to facilitate the economic transformation and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.It is a natural extention of the existing opening-up and international cooperation in the new era.China’s forestry foreign aid,as a component of China’s overall foreign aid programs,assumes the task and responsibility to advocate China’s ecological progress and green development along with the mission of implemeting the Belt and Road Initiative.This paper,based on its overview of China’s forestry foreign aid principles,aims and approaches,has analyzed and assessed the chances and challenges in China’ forestry foreign aid programs under the Belt and Road Initiative and has accordingly presented suggestions.