Forest fireman is a profession announced by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Personnel involved in preventing and extinguishing forest fires.

Firefighters, members of disaster relief and rescue groups established by the government or the people. Firefighters are mainly responsible for fire fighting and ambulance services, and also participate in other rescue work. As a special rescue profession, firefighters need special physical, technical and psychological training to ensure that they have special physical, technical and psychological requirements. Firefighters refer to employees who are included in a specific occupation (type of work) in the fire protection industry. Specifically, it can be subdivided into fire officers and soldiers, building (structure) firefighters, fire rescue personnel, firefighters, firefighters, fire observers and so on. The responsibilities of firefighters mainly include fire fighting, disaster rescue, inspection of fire safety facilities and publicity of fire safety knowledge. At the same time, they also participate in rescue work (such as road rescue and ambulance rescue), serve the people (such as eliminating wild animals and eliminating potential safety hazards), check the safe water sources of water supply companies, and perform internal services (wiring and paperwork). Generally, college degree or above is required, and some positions need to have a registered fire engineer qualification certificate, giving priority to the admission of retired armed police fire brigade. Retired armed police or some fire brigades of the People's Liberation Army can relax their academic qualifications to ordinary high schools or secondary vocational schools and above.