Abstract: Forestry resource data is the base of forestry resource management, the simple and common data acquisition software is an effective way of improving the informationization level of forestry resource supervision. For the low commonality and reduplicative development of forestry resource data acquisition software, this article focuses on the flexible design for the data exchange, dynamic database management, user interface autogenerating and intelligent configuration technologies, a common data acquisition tool for forestry resource supervision was designed and developed, and was applied to many fields of forest resource supervision. It is a powerful and easy tool which can be extended to meet the data acquisition requirements from different departments of forestry resource supervision. After analyzing the requirements of forest resource management in Lincang City of Yunnan Province, southwestern China, a data acquisition tool, which was based on the common data acquisition system framework, was developed and applied. The results show that this system has flexible architecture and high scalability.