Hangzhou is a typical city on the establishment of urban forest in China, so it was identified as a case study site in Urban Forestry Policy Project Co-funded by EC. The name of the project is “Developing Policy Formulation and Implementation Tools for Providing Support for Ecological Forest Management in China’s Urban and Peri-Urban Areas”. Experts from the project team have conducted a field survey on urban forestry policy in Hangzhou for one week. Through the field survey and the workshop, the experts understand the current development of urban forestry, the management institutions, the policy framework, the policy- making and the implementation procedure in Hangzhou. The impacts of urban policy and experiences of urban forest planning and management were analyzed. Finally, the main existing problems of urban forestry development were concluded and related policy recommendations in Hangzhou were provided. Hangzhou is a typical city on the establishment of urban forest in China, so it was identified as a case study site in Urban Forestry Policy Project Co-funded by EC. The name of the project is “Developing Policy Formulation and Implementation Tools for Providing Support for Ecological Forest Management in China’s Urban and Peri-Urban Areas ”. Experts from the project team have conducted a field survey on urban forestry policy in Hangzhou for one week. Through the field survey and the workshop, the experts understand the current development of urban forestry, the management institutions, the policy framework, the policy- making and the implementation procedure in Hangzhou. The impacts of urban policy and experiences of urban forest planning and management were analyzed. Finally, the main existing problems of urban forestry development were concluded and related policy recommendations in Hangzhou were provided.