The development and utilization of resources refers to the behavior that human beings use some tools or wisdom to process, transform or utilize the materials, energy, life forms and wisdom that can serve people and then serve human beings.
Resources can be divided into physical objects (oil, coal, water) and virtual objects (networks, radio waves, the sun) according to whether there are entities or not; According to whether resources can be re developed, they can be divided into renewable resources and non renewable resources; It can also be divided according to the difficulty and visibility of resource exploitation.
"Resources" refers to the general term of all kinds of material elements, such as material resources, financial resources and human resources, owned by a country or a certain region. It is divided into natural resources and social resources. The former includes sunshine, air, water, land, forest, grassland, animals, minerals, etc; The latter includes human resources, information resources and various material wealth created through labor.
Since not all resources can serve people at the beginning like water, some resources must be processed, treated and transformed to make them serve people. For example, oil and minerals need to be mined and processed before being used. This process is called resource development and utilization. According to different types of resources, they are divided into different ways of resource development and utilization. Such as water resources development and utilization, power resources development and utilization, light resources development and utilization, wind resources development and utilization, etc.