It is one of important contents of institutional construction of ecological civilization in our country to perfect the system of property rights of natural resources. Natural resources convert into property of natural resources under the circumstances of rarity and complete property rights. Since the reform and open policy, great development has gained in the system of property rights of natural resources, the changes of which tends to gradually advance generally towards advantages to proper arrangements of property of natural resources and clear ownership attribution of which has been basically solved. However, up till now, the usufructuary right of natural resources is not perfect enough, presenting such problems to this degree or that as incompatibility in property right, imbalance in property right development, obscure power boundary, unclear division between power and responsibility, inequality in subjective status and incomplete mechanism of interests. To solve the above-mentioned problems, a reform of the system of property rights of natural resources should adhere to the orientation marketization, and collaboratively establish a system of ownership and of administration power to direct our country’s system of property rights of natural resources to the aim of development of coordinating multirelevant factors, pursuing comprehensive efficiency and clearer definition of property rights.

natural resources; category of property; property right of resources; system of property right