SWOT Analysis of Urban Forest Construction in Harbin
As the political,economic,and cultural center of northern Northeast China,Harbin has rap-idly industrialized,leading to it becoming one of the cities with severe air pollution in China.Urban for-est construction is one of the methods to reduce smog and maintain the sustainable development of urban ecological civilization.Based on a SWOT analysis,this paper explores the urban forest construction in Harbin from four perspectives:strengths,weaknesses,opportunities,and threats.Despite the positive influences brought by ecological environment advantages,economic development advantages,forestry re-source advantages,urban forest ecological network construction,public attention to the ecological envi-ronment,and opportunities for ecological construction,Harbin's urban forest construction faces challen-ges such as insignificant forestry economic benefits,low quality of urban greening,and the difficulty of effectively combining native tree species to purify air pollution.