Establishing Natural Resources Monitoring Systems in China: Situation, Problem and Suggestion

Abstract

In order to fundamentally support work for achieve "climate action, life below water, and life on land" 3 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, and to realize unified monitoring and refined management of natural resources, this paper collects, organizes, analyzes, and summarizes national policy, management department documents, relevant papers, and the latest industry development trends through the literature induction method. It systematically studies current monitoring networks from the perspectives of land resources monitoring, mineral resources monitoring, forest resources monitoring, grassland resources monitoring, water resources monitoring, wetland resources monitoring, marine resources monitoring. It indicates such problems as inconsistent classification standards and monitoring technical standards for natural resources, lack of smooth connection among monitoring networks, and insufficient high-tech applications. It proposes suggestions of building 1+N monitoring system, coordinating multi-level and multi-category monitoring mechanisms, improving monitoring intelligence level, strengthening the ability to obtain multi-source spatiotemporal data, and constructing an information sharing platform, to better build a unified natural resource monitoring system, and serve the refined management of natural resources.