With the analysis on the characteristics of global forest carbon market in 2010 and based on the current status of China’s forest carbon market, the paper presented the path selection for forest carbon market cultivation in China,i.e.strengthening the promotion and cooperation of international forest carbon sequestration projects to forward global forest carbon market development,developing primary market transactions to steadily promote financial market development,promoting the formation of domestic forest carbon market,and putting voluntary emission reduction as the priority of current market development. With the analysis on the characteristics of global forest carbon market in 2010 and based on the current status of China’s forest carbon market, the paper presented the path selection for forest carbon market cultivation in China, ie, strengthening and promotion of cooperation of international forest carbon sequestration projects to forward global forest carbon market development, developing primary market transactions to steadily promote financial market development, promoting the formation of domestic forest carbon market, and putting voluntary emission reduction as the priority of current market development.