Abstract: In order to estimate the effects of the controlling policy of collecting bamboo shoots on the panda habitat recovery in Mabian Dafengding Nature Reserve, a field survey was carried out to compare the growth and vegetation community structure of Chimonobambusa szechuanensis in the controlling area of collecting bamboo shoots with those in the outer unmanaged protection area in September 2018. Chimonobambusa szechuanensis was the main food of giant pandas. The results showed that 1) the height and number of bamboo shoots, the basal diameter and quantity of bamboo in the controlling collecting bamboo shoots areas were significantly higher than those in the unmanaged area (p<0.05), the base diameter of bamboo shoots, the height of bamboo showed no significant difference. 2) the DBH and height of trees, the cover degree of shrub layer in the controlling collecting bamboo shoots areas were greater than those in the unmanaged areas (p<0.05). Thus it could be seen that the controlling collecting bamboo shoots policy had a positive effect on the recovery of the main food bamboo of giant pandas in the Mabian Dafengding nature reserve. Continuous bamboo shoots collecting not only affected the growth of bamboo, but also changed the vegetation structure characteristics of the giant panda habitat.For better to protect the giant pandas in Mabian Dafengding Nature Reserve, the conservation areas were effective to implement scientific management policy on controlling collecting bamboo shoots, which should be recommended in other conservation areas.