Ecological degradation is grim on global level, and ecological restoration technologies play important roles in the process of mitigating ecosystem degradation. For a long time, the lack of systematic research on the ecological technologies has affected its application in ecological fragile zones. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Key Research and Development Program of "Typical fragile ecological restoration and protection" has recently launched a project entitled "The methodology and indicator system for assessing ecological restoration technologies and evaluation of global ecosystem rehabilitation technologies" (2016YFC0503700). The main goals of this project are:clarifying the global ecological degradation status and needs of ecological technologies; establishing indicator system for assessment of ecological technologies; evaluating the effects of different types of ecological technologies in regions of national key ecological restoration projects are implemented, as well as different ecological degradation zones; screening appropriate ecological technologies to meet the demand of ecological civilization construction and ecological governance of China; building up ecological technology evaluation platform and integrated system; and eventually providing scientific support for China's ecosystem protection and ecological restoration and the global ecological governance.