Abstract: Natural secondary forest is the main forest type formed after natural forest harvesting, which is significantly different from primary forest and artificial forest in many aspects, such as species composition and structure, forest growth and productivity, stand environment and ecological function. Therefore, it is of great significance for biodiversity protection, ecological security, ecological barrier construction and ecological civilization construction in China to study the effects of human disturbance on species composition, tree growth, regeneration and community structure of secondary forest community. On the basis of extensive collection of the latest literature on secondary forest research at home and abroad, the impact of human disturbance on forest growth, species composition and community structure of natural secondary forest were discussed, and the positive role of human disturbance in improving the quality of natural secondary forest were expounded. In the end, the future research direction of the influence of human disturbance on the succession process of natural secondary was put forward, providing scientific basis for the protection and restoration of natural secondary forest, ecosystem management and multi-objective management in China.