The paper makes thorough analysis on its necessity, rationale and types along with compensating mechanism of ecological environment that we should set up in the near future in China.

• 对建立生态环境补偿机制的必要性、理论基础、生态环境补偿机制的类型以及我国近期应该建立的生态环境补偿机制进行了较为深入的分析。