The total economic value of natural resources including use value and nonuse value. The use value can be dividing into direct use value, indirect use value, option value, and quasi-option value. The nonuse value can be dividing into bequest value and existence value. This paper introduces the evaluation methods of natural resources economic value. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one of the evaluation methods of natural resources economic vale, which could evaluation both use value and nonuse value on the same time. Under all the evaluation methods CVM is widely useable from others. This paper introduces the CVM, to explicate its credibility, development, and innovation.