Resources, a general term for all kinds of material, financial, human and other substances possessed within a country or a certain region. Resources can be divided into two categories: natural resources and social resources. The former are such as sunlight, air, water, land, forests, grasslands, animals, mineral deposits, etc.; the latter include human resources, information resources and all kinds of material wealth created through labor.

Marx said in Capital, "Labor and land, are the two original formative elements of wealth." Engels' definition is: "In fact, labor and nature together it is the source of all wealth, nature provides labor with materials, and labor transforms materials into wealth." The definitions of Marx and Engels point out the objective existence of natural resources, but also regard the human (including labor and technology) factor as another indispensable source of wealth. It can be seen that the source and composition of resources, not only natural resources, but also the social, economic, technological and other factors of human labor, but also human resources, human resources, intelligence (information, knowledge) and other resources.