Abstract: China was rich in forest resources, and it was an important direction and approach of the development of forestry industry for exploiting the active components of forest resources which were beneficial to human health. With the rapid development of forestry bio-agent industry based on the active components as important material basis in China, targeted molecular imprinting materials have important industrial application value in the accurate separation and high-value processing of forest active components. This article introduced the principle and classification of targeted molecular imprinting technology, as well as the carrier types of several new-style targeted molecularly imprinted adsorption materials in recent years, mainly include graphene, silica, carbon dots and bio-based carriers. It focused on the application status in the separation of flavonoids, polyphenols, alkaloids, organic acids and other forest source active ingredients by targeted molecularly imprinted adsorption materials. Finally, the development of targeted molecular imprinting materials for the separation of active components from forest sources was summarized and prospected, the limitation of targeted molecular imprinting materials and the development trend of targeted molecular imprinting materials in the separation of active components from forest sources were also analyzed.