Ecological compensation is very important to protect and improve the ecological environment and to suit the demand of forestry sustainable development. In order to study the problems and requirements of ecological forest compensation, this paper selected Beijing, with primary forestry characteristic of ecological forest, as the study area. The article analyzed the ecological forest compensation under the farmers’ perspective, who benefit from the ecological forest most and take the most responsibility of managing and protecting the forest. According to the research, ecological forest compensation has a lot of problems at present a lot of problems, such as the low compensation standard, single target and so on. Farmers think the main requirements for the compensation are compensation funds, more clarified rules, foresters’ wage levels and so on.