How should we correctly understand and handle the relationship between the economy and resources?

1. Economic resources are scarce resources, and scarce resources are defined as non-renewable resources, which are all correct. But there is no contradiction.

2. It cannot be said the other way around: scarce resources are economic resources. It can be said that some scarce resources are economic resources.

3. There are natural resources (sunshine and air) that are not economic resources, but there are no human resources and capital resources that are not economic resources.

Economic resources: The material or non-material elements that can produce benefits in economic activities include natural resources and social resources.

The so-called economic resources must have usefulness and scarcity, usefulness is the basis for resources, scarcity is the premise of economic resources for economic resources, and whether we can recognize and use this scarce usefulness still depends on certain knowledge, technology and economic conditions, so economic resources are usually defined as wealth with scarcity and can bring utility, and is a general term for various economic goods in the human social and economic system.

There is a clear semantic difference between economic resources and economic goods. When we talk about economic resources, we tend to treat them as a collection of certain types of economic goods, each of which may actually contain thousands of economic goods, such as oil and quartz, which are different economic goods, but both belong to the category of mineral resources or material resources or natural resources.

Human resources: people involved in social and economic activities are not only the organizers and managers of other material resources, energy resources, and information resources, but also the comprehensive carrier and active transformation body of their own materials, energy, and information. People are the main body of social and economic activities and an indispensable core factor. Therefore, from this point of view, human beings themselves can be regarded as separate economic resources that can be juxtaposed with matter, energy, and information, including human physical strength, human brain power, and the storage of the results of their thinking activities—activating knowledge. People who are far from the human social system are merely human beings in nature (e.g., isolated, self-sufficient hermits), not human resources.

The part of the economic resource that is directly related to nature can be called a natural resource. However, in the past economic research, most of the material, energy, and information were originally ** in the natural world, so they were generally and not so strictly classified as natural resources, human resources naturally exist in the human social system, and natural resources and human beings themselves are regarded as the most primitive and basic economic resources - original economic resources, "in a sense, there are only two factors of production, that is, nature and human beings", labor and nature together are the source of all wealth, and nature provides materials for labor, Labor turns materials into wealth", labor is the father of wealth, and land is the mother of wealth.

1 You don't have to equate these concepts, it's wrong for you to think that way.

2 No, some scarce resources are economic resources.

3. No, economic resources necessarily include human resources and capital resources.

The economic situation next year should be very difficult, China is not good, the United States is not good, the whole world is depressed. However, I believe that China and the United States will not tear their faces apart, we have repeatedly backed down on the exchange rate issue, and there is not much room for continued concessions next year.