Abstract: In order to help developing the ecological economic forest in Chinese desertification areas to benefit local ecologies and economics, the author reviewed recent 30 years research in the ecological economic forest. It had shown that: while the ecological economic forest had a lot of possible effect in reducing desert, maintaining the soil and water conservation, improving the soil, and recovering ecologies, it could earn a lot of profits. Therefore, it would be helpful for both ecologies and economics and was an effective way to restore ecological environment in China. However, there were still a lot of issues to be studied and more works needed to be done for the realistic applications. Therefore, in order to make the ecological economic forest to improve the environment and economy, and finally to benefit humanity, future works should focus on widely and intensively studies on the ecological economic forest, and bring the laboratory result into realistic as soon as possible. Based on the environment and effects of ecological economic forest in desertification areas, the author had made some advices in developing ecological economic forest, for the purpose of environment reconstruction in desertification areas.