Abstract: The major of forest protection involves the theory and technology of forest pest control, playing a very important role in forestry production and is of great significance to China's modern forestry construction and socialist economic development. It is the mission and responsibility of higher undergraduate education under the background of new agricultural science to construct first-class specialty, train first-class talents and revitalize undergraduate education comprehensively. South China Agricultural University, learn major forest protection in order to promote first-class undergraduate majors in Guangdong Province as an opportunity to seriously comb, discipline development, actively explore the teaching methods and teaching achievements, and form a scientific and reasonable, subject development planning, gradual first-class professional construction and development, to the national first-class professional development goals.

Key words: Forest protection, Specialty construction, First-class specialty