China’s natural resources administration system has provide a vital
guarantee for natural resources use and protection over the past decades as a
booster to ecological civilization construction, but it still has shortages in
lack of rights and responsibilities and in overlapping of leadership and
management, leading to lots of issues in unclear ownership subject of natural
resources, fuzzy boundary of right confirmation and insufficient protection of
property rights. This paper uses property rights theory to analyze the
evolution of China’s natural resources administration system under guideline of “the 14th Five-Year
Plan”and “2035 Outlook”, establishes a research framework of “system evolution-issues discussion-approach optimization”, and applies Pigovian tax, Coase
Theorem, and new system economics theory to qualitative analysis of the natural
resources assets property rights system optimization direction. Its evolution
of natural resources administration system shows a clarifying ownership at a
trend of separation of ownership and using right. Governments as the
administrator of market shall uses power to mark market limit and make
marketing rules. System performance is mainly related to the gaming between
governments and markets, which may be promoted by optimizing the property
rights system of “affiliation-rights & responsibilities-protection-transfer-supervision”. The research concludes that in order to
improve the natural resources assets property rights system in our country, we
should clarify the property rights, and realize the property rights in the
legal subject clearly relying on the regulatory effect of the classification
agent system. The content of registration and accounting should be clarified,
and the information management platform of natural resources assets should be
built to accurately grasp the assets, and use the ecological protection
compensation mechanism to support the protection system, strengthen the intensity
of protection, guarantee market transactions. Marketized trading platform shall
be used to improve the allocating efficiency of natural resources, to transfer
asset stock to asset increment. Supervision system shall be improved in all
process which limits governmental power lists to avoid governmental monopoly.