The Evaluation and Comparative Analysis on Construction Efficiency between National Forest Cities and Non-national Forest Ones

11 pairs of national forest cities and non-forest ones in China were compared in terms of economy, society, ecology, culture and health by using cluster sampling and principal component analysis method. The results showed that 13 indicators among 19 ones of national forest cities were better than that of the non-ones. Through four economic and five social indicators, local finance income of 11 pairs of cities had no great difference, but their resident income and happiness was higher than non-ones. Three cultural and three health indexes were higher in forest cities. National forest cities showed advantages than non-ones in urban ecological environment improvement and air purification. Economic, cultural and ecological index constitute the main evaluation index for national forest city. National forest city was better than non-ones in urban comprehensive strength.