Rich regions of energy are key towns to supply energy as one of the leading dynamic resources for economic development. Those rich regions of energy are generally faced with fragile ecology, thus calling for corresponding compensation of ecological value. The production of enterprises in energy bases and remainder caused by their production bring about some problems of ecological externality, including damages to local environment and reduction of the level of welfare of local living environment. However, many defects exist in the current compensation mechanism such as financial and market adjustment, value appraisal and selfadministration of enterprises. These appeal to a completion by the compensation principle, target system and institutional means.

the key bases of energy and major chemical industry in Northern Shaanxi; ecological environment; compensation of environmental value