Zhejiang Qianjiangyuan Forest Biodiversity National Observation and Research Station (Qianjiangyuan station) is supported by the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and located in the proposed Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park, Zhejiang Province. Qianjiangyuan station was formerly known as Gutianshan station which was established in 2009 and officially became the national station in 2021. The typical vegetation is mid-subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests in this area. The station is a comprehensive field station that integrates scientific research and monitoring, demonstration services, open sharing, and scientific education.

 Depending on the proposed Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park, the station aims at addressing the major ecological issue of “formation and maintenance mechanism of biodiversity and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in subtropics” with long-term dynamic observation of biodiversity at the individual, population, community and landscape level, constructing an “air-space-ground” integrated biodiversity monitoring system to support scientific research on natural ecosystems, and develop a biodiversity observation and research platform with great international impact.

Qianjiangyuan station has constructed an air-space-ground integrated biodiversity monitoring system by using modern biodiversity monitoring and research approaches such as large forest dynamics plots, grid-based animal and plant monitoring, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments, forest canopy cranes, and near-ground remote sensing, which realized the long-term biodiversity monitoring of the mid-subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in the Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park from the individual, population, community to landscape scales.