Abstract: Agroforestry is regarded as an efficient, intensive and ecological land management pattern in rural area. Because of the long history in agriculture and the multiple conditions of nature, diversified agroforestry models were developed in China. Agroforestry could expand the ways of agriculture management, optimize the structures of rural economy, and improve land productivity and sustainability. However, inappropriate agroforestry management models could also intensify the pressure to land managers and environment. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate existing models of agroforestry management and choose appropriate ones by using scientific methods. In China, agroforestry mainly includes four models such as forestry-agriculture based, forestry-livestock based, forestry-fisheries based and integrated type. Comprehensive evaluation methods on the agroforestry mainly include analytic hierarchy process(AHP), grey correlation analysis, principal component analysis, AHP—fuzzy evaluation method. In future, it is necessary to strengthen the research on the agroforestry pattern classification, comprehensive evaluation and management techniques.