Abstract: The White Birch(Betula platyphylla), a world-wide species, mainly distributed in the Northern Temperate zone, and mainly in Japan, Korea, Russia and China in Temperate Asian. In other way, it mainly distributed in Daxingan Mountain, Xiaoxingan Mountain and Changbai Mountain in the Northeast China, Yan Mountain, Taihang Mountain in Northern China, Qin Mountain, Tian Mountain, Artai Mountain in Northwest China, Hengduan Mountain, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Southwest China. White Birch, growing rapidly and having stronger adaptability to the environment, is quality species to regeneration forest culture for restitution vegetation and conservation of both water and soil, also a important economic tree species for medicinal and edible application. So there will a very extensive global development prospect for white birch resources. The progress in the aspect of geographical distribution, community ecology, growth and development, Reproductive Ecology transfer-gene breeding, the processing utilization of wood, sap and bark of white birch resources in China was documented in this paper. At the meantime, suggestion on possibility of forming white birch industry and developing a new substitute estate in the protection engineering of the nature forest in China was put for forward for implementation rational exploitation, utilization of birch resources of China.

Key words: white birch, ecological management, industry utilization