Abstract: The classification of natural resources is the foundation of natural resources management and land spatial planning, and is the prerequisite for conducting survey and monitoring work. It should follow the concept that mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasslands are a community of life. This article first comprehensively analyzes the current status and problems of existing natural resources classification standards, and then combines with the characteristics of Guangdong to conduct a preliminary discussion on the natural resources survey and monitoring classification standards of Guangdong province, and strives to solve the problems of different concepts, overlapping contents, and contradictory indicators in the existing natural resources classification. With a view to provide ideas for the ongoing pilot work of natural resources survey and monitoring in Guangdong province, and at the same time provides certain inspiration for the formulation of national natural resources classification standards.

Key words: natural resources, survey and monitoring, classification standard, ground substrate (layer) survey, wetlands, forestry, ocean