Topic selection planning is the need of publishing department to adapt to market competition. Plan excellent topics, improve the quality of topics, concentrate limited manpower, material resources and financial resources on the design, editing and publication of books and periodicals with good social and economic benefits, and launch fine products. For example, people's publishing house 1987 book topic selection plan. Planning topics for 3 years, 5 years or longer, such as: China Famous Flowers Special Series (chief planner, edited by Liu Xianyin), China Forestry Publishing House,1998-2008; The series of works on the construction of forest ecological network system in China is listed as the national key book publishing project in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, China Forestry Publishing House, 2003-20 13, and so on.