In past decades, preservative treated wood helped conserve the wood resource by a total volume of 20 million m,3, in China. However, there are still gaps compared with the technologically advanced countries. Problems facing the Chinese wood preservation industry are depressed market, lack of uniform standards, and environmentally friendly preservatives. Both the achievements and problems in the Chinese wood preservation industry are reviewed in this paper. Furthermore, some measures for promoting the development of the Chinese wood preservation industry are proposed.