The invention relates to plant breeding methods, in particular to a cyclobalanopsis gilva seedling cutting method. The method includes the following steps that a scion is collected, and the scion is made to be a cutting slip with the length being 8-10 cm, wherein three leaves on the top of the cutting slip are kept, and the 2/5 area of each leaf is reserved; an upper notch of the cutting slip is a flat opening, the scion is treated by hormones, the scion is placed in a plug tray in a cuttage mode, sufficient watering is conducted, a sunshade net is built over a cutting bed, the temperature is controlled to be 13-28 DEG C, the relative humidity is kept more than 80%, and water is sprayed once or twice or three times; carbendazim is sprayed weekly. According to the cyclobalanopsis gilva seedling cutting method, cuttage vegetative propagation is adopted, the good characteristic of a parent body can be kept, the rooting percentage of cyclobalanopsis gilva reaches up to 80.4%, the average root length is 3.52 cm, and the average rooting number is 5.55. The survival rate of good seedlings is increased on the premise that the production cycle is shortened, the breeding speed is high, the invested cost is low, operation is easy and convenient, the character is stable, and popularization and large-scale afforestation of the good cyclobalanopsis gilva seedlings can be facilitated.