Abstract: [Objective] Revealing the forest farmer's cognition and its influence factors of commercial forest redemption in key ecological location is very important. It will provide scientific basis for improving the redemption of commodity forest and promoting the implementation of national ecological compensation.[Method] Based on 139 household survey data from Fujian Province, the forest farmers' cognition of commercial forest redemption are analyzed. On this basis, the main factors influencing forest farmer's cognition and their marginal effects were investigated using the multinomial logistic model.[Result] Firstly, 61.87% of forest farmers have the cognition of the commercial forest redemption in key ecological locations, but only 25.18% of the farmers know it well. Secondly,in the view of the impact factors on the forest farmer's cognition of commercial forest redemption in key ecological location, for the individual characteristics, the influences of education degree and age are significant, whereas,those of gender and village cadres experience are not significant. In the family characteristics, the influence of farmers' type is significant, whereas,those per capita income and the number of forestry labor in family are not significant. For the woodland characteristics, the influences of woodland area, woodland management type is timber or bamboo forest or not, and the woodland management mode are significant.For the external factors, the influence of whether to participate in the cooperation organization or not, the frequency of forestry policy discussion and the attitude of village cadres on forestry policy propaganda are significant. The influence of distance between the village and the city center is not significant. In the further study of the marginal effect, it is found that the marginal effect coefficient of "comparative understanding" in cognition is greater than "complete understanding" [Conclusion] Firstly, the overall level of forest farmers' cognition of the commodity forest redemption is low; Secondly, among the influencing factors, age, education degree, the farmers' type, woodland area, woodland management type is timber or bamboo forest or not, woodland management mode, whether to participate in the cooperation organization or not, the frequency of forestry policy discussion, the attitude of village cadres on forestry policy propaganda and area are the main factors. Thirdly, the cognition in Yong'an is better than that in Shunchang. Finally, farmers' cognitive degree tends to be "better understood" reflecting that their understanding of policy is not deep enough. Therefore, the government can increase the depth of the accurate propaganda, expand publicity channels (especially paying attention to play the role of the modern media)and improve the policy enforcement to promote the depth and breadth of the forest farmer's cognition of the policy.

Key words: forest farmers, key ecological areas of commercial forest, redemption, cognition, influencing factors