Moisture content(MC) distribution and water movement of both green and airdried boards from fastgrowing plantation wood along thickness direction during drying process were studied.In the same time,influence of drying temperature on drying rate in both surface layer and core layer was studied.Results showed that due to sawnlog’s MC varied in both radial and longitudinal directions,initial MC of testing boards was not the same.During drying,the MC distributions along the thickness direction of all testing boards were gradually changed into parabola distributions with low MC in surface layer and high in core layer.After equilibrium treatment,the MC in surface layer was almost equal to that in core layer.Although drying temperature had different influence in different stages of drying,the average drying rate increased with temperature rising.With same equilibrium moisture content(EMC),rising temperature made drying rate in core layer change more obviously than that in surface layer.