Discussion on natural resources classification system

Starting from the requirements of natural resources management and the classification of natural resources-related legislation, and basing on the space of natural resources and the classification principle of “paying equal attention to the attributes and functions of natural resources, connecting with national laws and previous investigation results”, the land resources, wetland resources, grassland resources, sea and island resources, water resources, forest resources and mineral resources that based on spatial distributions were established as first level classification system in this paper. In addition, the second level classification system was established by combining with the attributes and function of natural resources, and the third level classification system was established by corresponding to the classification results of the third national land survey.