Bamboo is the important forests' resource, which has many advantages, such as widespread, fast-growing, many uses, high ecology and economical worth. It is praised as "the Green Gold Mine". China is the centre producing region in the world, and it also has the most abundant bamboo resource, the most biggest bamboo area and the most output of bamboo. China has a long history of planting bamboo and high managerial skill in the world. Bamboo area of China is 1/5 of the world.

Anji county is the famous "Hometown of Bamboo in China". According to the result of The 2nd Forests′Resource Exploration in 1994, there is 573.15 square kilometers bamboo area in Anji. It is 51.27% of the total quantity in China. Among this the mao bamboo covers an area of 445.20 square kilometers. It's 77.68% of bamboo area in China. The storage of bamboo is 1.4 billion pieces. There are 18 million pieces of commodity bamboo every year. It is 1/10 of the total quantity in China and the bamboo area is the biggest one in China, taking the county as a unit.