Resources refer to the general term for various materials such as material resources, financial resources, and human resources possessed by a country or a certain region.

Resources can be divided into two categories: natural resources and social resources. The former includes sunlight, air, water, land, forests, grasslands, animals, mineral deposits, etc.; the latter includes human resources, information resources, and various material wealth created through labor.

Related explanation

Compared with natural resources, social resources have the following outstanding characteristics:

1. sociality. The survival, labor, and development of human beings are all realized in certain social forms, social interactions, and social activities. Labor resources, technical resources, economic resources, information resources and other social resources are all without exception. The social nature of social resources is mainly reflected in:

(1) Different social production methods produce different types, different quantities, and different qualities of social resources.

(2) Social resources can transcend national boundaries and race relations. Anyone can master and use them to create social wealth.