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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2021, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (11): 3793-3804.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202111.015

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Gross economic-ecological product accounting of Fuzhou City, China

NIU Le1,2, WANG Jiao-yue1,3*, XI Feng-ming1,3, YIN Yan1,3, BING Long-fei1,3, MA Ming-jing1,2, ZHANG Wen-feng1,2   

  1. 1Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;
    2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Online:2021-11-15 Published:2022-05-15
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41603068, 41977290), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020201, Y202050) and the Scientific Research on the Project of Ecosystem Service Value Accounting in Fuzhou City ([350100]HH[CS]2019001).

Abstract: The gross economic-ecological product (GEEP) accounting is crucial to promote the construction of ecological civilization, and practice the ideas of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”. GEEP accounting had been conducted at national and provincial scales, but not at urban scale. According to the economic and ecological development, the GEEP accounting framework was built in Fuzhou City. The GEEP value of Fuzhou City in 2015 and 2018 was calculated and the spatiotemporal variation was analyzed. The results showed that the GEEP value of Fuzhou City was 1208.568 billion yuan in 2015. Among which, the value of GDP and ecological regulation, and the cost of environmental degradation and ecological damage were 577.742, 636.420, 3.095 and 2.500 billion yuan, respectively. Minqing County had the highest GEEP, with a value of 170.022 billion yuan, which accounted for 14.1% of that in Fuzhou City. The lowered values were found in Fuqing City, Minhou County and Yongtai County, accounting for 12.2%, 12.1% and 10.4%, respectively. In 2018, the GEEP of Fuzhou City increased to 1445.399 billion yuan, with an increase rate of 19.6%, mainly due to the GDP increase (up by 47.4% from 2015). The highest proportions of GEEP were observed in Minqing County and Gulou District (12.0%), followed by Fuqing and Minhou counties (11.0%). Compared with 2015, the increase trends were observed for the total value of GEEP, unit area and per capita of GEEP values in Fuzhou City. The cost of environmental and ecological degradation in Fuzhou decreased by 7.2% and 12.4%, respectively, indicating that the overall ecological environment of Fuzhou was improving. The accounting of GEEP in Fuzhou could effectively make up for the shortage of GDP assessment at the urban scale in China. It could provide an instrument for Fuzhou government to formulate rational ecological civilization assessment system and promote regional sustainable development.

Key words: gross economic-ecological product, ecology and environment, ecological civilization, Fuzhou City.