为深入了解湖南省开展森林旅游对当地居民民生效应的影响状况及其呈现出的民生特征，本文以张家界国家森林公园、大围山国家森林公园、莽山国家森林公园所在地及周边村庄为研究对象，于2013年8月20日至25日采用问卷调查和访谈法获取相关数据，应用SPSS 17.0软件对这3个国家森林公园所在地及周边村庄民生特征进行研究。结果表明：（1）森林旅游区居民家庭结构稳定，劳动力较强，健康状况良好，受教育程度偏低，就业渠道较窄，宗教信仰少；（2）森林旅游区居民收入与当地旅游收入呈显著正相关关系，人均消费高于同期湖南省农村居民平均水平；（3）社会保障事业比较完善，基础设施得到明显改善，娱乐、健身设施比较缺乏；（4）森林旅游区生态和社会环境局部遭到破坏，社会不安定因素增多，资源有效利用率显著提高。

In order to understand deeply about the effects of carrying out forest tourism for local residents in Hunan province and shows of the characteristics of the people''s livelihood. This paper selects villages locating in or around Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Dawei Mountain National Forest Park and Mangshan National Forest Park as the research object. The paper collected relevant data from August 20th to 25th of 2013 by means of questionnaire survey and interview . The results were following: (1)In the forest tourism area, the structure of household is stable in which the labors are strong and well healthy and lack of religious belief. Meanwhile their education was much lower, which led to narrow channels of employment.(2)The income are positive correlation significantly with the local tourism income and the per capital consumption is higher than the average level of rural residents in Hunan Province in the same period.(3) The social security cause is more perfect and the infrastructure is obviously improved, but the mass entertainments and fitness facilities are deficiency; (4) Ecological and social environment in part of forest tourism areas was destroyed and social unrest increased, but the effective use of resources has increased.