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The efficient development and management of the world’s marine resources is vital to global sustainable development. Governments are paying increasing attention to the importance of the environment and to the management of natural resources, including marine tidal flat resources. The use of marine tidal flats plays an important role in global ecology because of their unique geographical location and ecological functions. Marine tidal flats are one of the most important coastal zone resources in China. The socio-economic development of these coastal regions depends on proper accounting of the value of these resources. In this paper, the theory of natural resource accounting is applied to marine tidal flat resources in China.