Abstract: The accounting of cultural ecosystem services is challenging due to its intangible nature, which presents a significant difficulty in assessing the values of current ecosystem services. The lack of targeted monitoring surveys and data statistics systems has led to deficiencies of relevant accounting parameters and input data, hindering progress in accounting cultural ecosystem services. Using government statistic data as the foundation, combined with internet data and questionnaire survey data, we applied relevant theories on cultural ecosystem service valuation and adopted the travel cost method and market value method to estimate the value of tourism and health services in natural scenic areas, landscape value-added services for hotels and private housing, and paleontological research and education services in Chengjiang. The results showed that the total value of these three cultural services in Chengjiang amounted to 4.486 billion CNY in 2021, with tourism and health services in natural scenic areas valued at 3.496 billion CNY, landscape value-added services at 0.889 billion CNY, and paleontological research and education services at 0.101 billion CNY. This study addresses the issue of data deficiencies by integrating multi-source data to account the value of cultural ecosystem services at the county level, providing an approach that can be extended to other areas. The findings support the value realization of ecosystem products and the development of ecological compensation mechanisms in Chengjiang.

Key words: tourism and health services, landscape value-added services, scientific research and education services, gross ecosystem product