Natural Resource Constraints And Economic Growth Of The Mechanism

This research is based on the following backgrounds: Firstly, in the international circumstance, at different stages of economic development, natural resources have show different restriction to economy. There exist both the restriction of natural resources shortage and the "curses" of the plenty of natural resources; Secondly, judging the types of the natural resources restriction and finding the effective approaches to shake off the restriction is the primary issue to realize the sustainable development of the economy and society in our country. Thirdly, seeing from experience facts of the development of our country's regional economy, natural resources have displayed different restriction to the economic growth in different scales. Fourthly, the existing Economic Growth Theory pays less attentions and analysis to the natural resources. Therefore this study not only has the theoretical significance in developing the Economic Growth Theory, enriching the Regional Economics Theory and the Natural Resource Economic Theory, but also has the practical signification to speed up the development of economy of our country and shrink the gap of the regional economy, at the same time, it has important realistic meanings to construct the harmonious society.This research includes the following contents: The positions and functions of the natural resources in economic development; The economic growth route under the restrictions of natural resources; The actuality of the non-renewable natural resources and economic development of our country, also and international experience from others counties; The Co-integration analysis of non-renewable natural resources restriction and economic growth; The analysis of the inherent mechanism that the non-renewable natural resources restrict to the economic growth; The countermeasures that weaken the restriction to the economic growth of the non-renewable natural resources.According to these analyses, the conclusions, containing the innovation can be drawn as following: Firstly, based on the Theory of Constraints, the significations of the natural resources restriction is pointed out. The meaning that natural resources restriction is during the development of the economy and society, natural resources' demand exceeds the supply and the supply exceeds the demand, due to the insufficient supply, the decline of the quality, and the increasing difficulty of exploitation and utilization of the natural resources as well as the abundance of natural resources. It includes two types: One kind is the shortage of natural resources. This restriction belongs to the quantity control to the economic growth. The other kind is the surplus of the natural resources. This kind of restriction belongs to the quality control to the economic growth.Secondly, although the results that the two kinds of restrictions are block the economic growth, the essential, the reason and the expressional form are different distinctly. The representations of quantity control are as following: a) domestic and overseas natural resources supply is in shortage in short term; b) domestic and overseas natural resources supply inhibit the economic growth in long term. However, the representations of quality control are as following: a) the inequality of earnings and distributions; b) the deficiency of the manpower; c) the abnormality of the industrial configuration. The quantity control of the natural resources can be resolved by increasing the supply of the natural resources. Considering the complicated causation of the quality control, the modes and methods to solve it are also complex.Thirdly, now our country is faced with multiplicate restrictions, although the non-renewable natural resources have unreplaceable functions during our country's economic growth. In macroscopically scale, the growth of economy is controlled by the deficient supply of natural resources. In midscopically and microcosmic scales, the growth of economy is controlled by the superfluous supply of natural resources. But due to the different coefficients of the error correct, the factors and the bondages that natural resources restrict the growth of economy are dissimilitude too. Anyhow, compared with macroscopically scale, the restrictions of the natural resources is greater in the midscopically and microcosmic scales. Fourthly, the study pointed out that the different performance of the market economy, the different position and the different society foundations are the main reasons lagged the economic growth in resourceful regions. The "curses" of the plenty natural resources restrict the growth of economy by affecting the flowage of the endogenetic factors, arrangement of systems and the speed of innovation. The decline of manufacturing, illogical and shortage of surveillance of the natural resources property rights in the resourceful regions restrict the growth of economy.Fifthly, by compared the reserves of natural resources with the growth of economy, the study pointed out that it should be started with the. arrangement of the system, transformation of the economy, innovation of the technology and the distribution of the benefits, in order to resolve the restriction. It can make up the disfigurements of the natural resources property rights by establishing market-based natural resources common property rights modes, carrying out natural resources usufruct with marketization and setting up mixed market with common property rights and private property rights. It can re-establish the economic growth modes in resourceful regions by upgrading the industries. It can strengthen the regional competitive capability and accelerate the transformation of resource economy by up building regional competitive capability creating modes, industry configuration metabolization modes and enterprises transformation modes. Through utilizing area control resource and external control resource can raise technological innovation ability and help to lighten the restriction to the regional economic growth in resourceful region. Through constructing natural resource share mechanism, it can proportion the benefits of the exploitation, production and consumption of the natural resources. At the same time, it will reduce overflowing of the benefits effectively during the exploitation and utilizing of the natural resources, which pointed out a new way to lessen the economic gap between the resourceful and unresourceful regions.