China’s Research on Resource Accounting and Its Application to the National Economic Accounting System

Abstract

In cooperation with Dr. Robert Repetto and other experts of the World Resource Institute and with the support of the Ford Foundation of the United States, we have developed the research on natural resource accounting and its application to the national economic accounting system since August 1988. There are about one hundred experts which have taken part in the research work. They are selected and organized from scores of units that include the Development Research Center of the State, the State Planning Commission, the State Statistics Office, the Environment Protection Bureau of the State, the Ministry of Geology and Minerals, the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Land Bureau and more than ten other Ministries and Commissions concerned, and five Provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Shandong). Hence, there are more than ten government officials of higher rank (at least, they are the vice minister), which have held the post of council for the research project.