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GB/T 46869-2025Ecosystem assessment - Technical guidelines for terrestrial gross ecosystem product accounting (English PDF)

生态系统评估　陆域生态产品总值核算技术指南

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Issued by

SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

December 31, 2025

Implementation date

December 31, 2025

Scope

GB/T 46869-2025 is the English-translated version of 生态系统评估　陆域生态产品总值核算技术指南.

GB/T 46869-2025 is the Chinese standard "Ecosystem assessment - Technical guidelines for terrestrial gross ecosystem product accounting". Its scope clause reads: This document provides the technical process, indicator system, data usage, accounting methods, and accounting reports for the accounting of Gross Terrestrial Ecological Product (GEP).

Guidelines for the compilation of the report. This document applies to the accounting of the gross value of terrestrial ecological products in administrative regions at the county level and above.

Other terrestrial natural geographical regions may refer to this document for implementation. This document also applies to ecological protection effectiveness assessment, government performance evaluation, ecological protection compensation, ecological environment damage compensation, and business development financing.

Ecological resource rights transactions, etc. Its clauses include terms and definitions.

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National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 13.020.20
Classification: Z 00

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

Preface
Introduction
1.Scope
2 Normative References
3.Terms and Definitions
4.Accounting Process
5.Accounting Indicator System 4.
6.Data Usage Instructions 7.
7.Accounting Methods
8.Accounting Report Preparation Instructions
Appendix A (Normative) Methods for Accounting for the Value of Terrestrial Ecological Products
Appendix B (Normative) Basic Data Requirements for Terrestrial Ecological Product Valuation
Appendix D (Normative) Outline for Compiling the Report on the Gross Value of Terrestrial Ecological Products
Appendix E (Normative) Table 62 for the Calculation of Gross Value of Terrestrial Ecological Products
References

1 Scope

This document provides the technical process, indicator system, data usage, accounting methods, and accounting reports for the accounting of Gross Terrestrial Ecological Product (GEP).

Guidelines for the compilation of the report.

This document applies to the accounting of the gross value of terrestrial ecological products in administrative regions at the county level and above. Other terrestrial natural geographical regions may refer to this document for implementation.

This document also applies to ecological protection effectiveness assessment, government performance evaluation, ecological protection compensation, ecological environment damage compensation, and business development financing.

Ecological resource rights transactions, etc.

2 Normative references

This document has no normative references.

3 Terms and Definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

3.1 ecosystem

A functional whole formed by the interaction of plant, animal and microbial communities and their abiotic environment within a certain spatial range.

3.2 Ecosystem services

The benefits that humans derive from the ecosystem.

Note. Ecosystem services include ecosystem material products, regulatory services, cultural services, and support services.

3.3 Ecosystem product

Ecosystems provide and are used for economic activities and other human activities.

Note. Ecological products include three categories. material products, regulatory services, and cultural services.

3.4 Gross ecosystem product (GEP)

Gross Ecosystem Product

The sum of the monetary value of all ecological products provided by various ecosystems within a given area during the accounting period, minus the value of exogenous products from that area.

Product value.

3.5 material product

Ecosystems provide and are used by humans for material products.

Note. Material products include grains, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits, timber, traditional Chinese medicine, forage grass, flowers, and biomass energy, etc.

3.6 regulating service

Ecosystems are the benefits that ecosystems provide to maintain or improve the environment in which humans live and thrive.

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