A Study On The Economic Development Of The Resource-based Cities In Shandong Province

The resource-based city is the area which takes mining and processing mineralresources like forests and other natural resources as the leading industry. As animportant energy and resources strategic safeguard base in our country,resource-based cities is an important support for the sustained and healthydevelopment of national economy. Promoting the sustainable development ofresource-based cities is the necessary requirement to accelerate the transformation ofthe mode of economic development and build a well-off society, and the importanttask to promote regional coordinated development, promote the new industrializationand the new urbanization, maintain social harmony and stability and constructecological civilization.Shandong province is rich in resources, large reserves, andbetter quality, so it has many resource-based cities. In the report of The NationalResource-based Cities Sustainable Development Planning printed by the state council,resource-based cities are clearly classified for the first time. There are14cities inShandong province, including7prefectural-level division (Dongying, Jining, Taian,Laiwu, Zaozhuang, Zaozhuang, Zibo, Linyi). This paper seleceted the7cities toanalyze the economic and industrial structure, put forward the existing problem,research state and the government’s policies on resource-based city, analyze theprogress and existing problems after the policy. On this basis, this paper puts forwardthe countermeasures for the economic transformation of resource-based city.Thispaper is divided into five parts:The first part, the related theory and research literature about resource-basedcities. The resource-based city is the area which takes mining and processing mineral resources like forests and other natural resources as the leading industry, includingprefectural-level division and county-level division. According to difference of thesupport capability and sustainable development ability, resource-based country can bedivided into growing cities, maturation cities, recession cities and regeneration cities.At present, the study of resource-based cities from all sectors of society focused moreon the resource-exhausted cities, and the analysis of typical cases mainly from theaspects of problem, transition mode and policy. And the overall analysis of differenttypes of resource-based cities, especially the in-depth study of the growth andmaturation cities is relatively little.The second part, the economic development history and status quo ofresource-based cities in Shandong province. According to difference of the supportcapability and sustainable development ability, the resource-based cities of Shandongprovince can be divided into mature cities (Dongying,Jining,Taian,Laiwiu), recessioncity (Zaozhuang)and regeneration cities(Zibo, Linyi). Throughout the development ofresource-based cities in Shandong province, from the economic scale, maturationcities (except Laiwu city) and regeneration cities are in a high level in the province,while the recession cities are relatively backward. From the economic structure,proportion of the secondary industry of resource-based cities is generally high,accounted for more than50%, while the first and third industry account for arelatively small proportion. From the industrial structure, mining industrydevelopment in resource-based city is good. And the resource related industriesoccupy large share in the manufacturing.The third part, comparative study of economic development betweenresource-based cities and non-resource-based cities in Shandong province. Fromoverall strength, the indicators like GDP and revenue of resource-based cities behindthe non-resource-based cities, but the comprehensive strength ranking of the cities ofDongying and Zibo was at the forefront of the province. From the industrial structure,the proportion of the secondary industry of resource-based cities issignificantly higher than the proportion of non-resource-based cities, but the tertiaryindustry and high-tech industries as a whole lags behind the non-resource-basedcities(except regenerative city). From the innovation development, city’s communitydevelopment funding and grant of patent applications between resource-based cityand non-resource-based city were flat. Maturation and regenerative city’s innovationand development is better. From the resource environment, the indicator of waterconsumption per unit of industrial added value is higher than the non-resource-basedcities. The resource-based-cities’ green coverage and other indicators andnon-resource-based cities with flat. In comparison with the non-resource-based cities,the author found that the resource-based cities exist some common problems,such asunbalanced economic development, weak overall strength, irrational industrialstructure, lack of innovative capacity and poor resources and environment. But it isworth noting that Dongying City and Zibo city is significantly different from otherresource-based cities with larger size of its economy, the development of faster,stronger overall.The fourth part, the transformation policy and implementation effects ofresource-based cities in Shandong province. From the perspective of solving theproblems existing in the resource-based city, national and local governmentpromulgated and implemented a series of policies and measures to support thesustainable development of resource-based cities. Although it has obtained the certaineffect, but did not reach the expected goal. Studies have shown that measures for thesustainable development of resource-based cities like transition made theresource-based cities got obvious improvement in the aspects of economicdevelopment scale, industrial structure, standard of living and ecological environment.But it is still a big enough presence in the growth of economic development,industrial structure and the size and other aspects of foreign investment utilization. The fifth part, strategies and recommendations for sustainable development ofthe resource-based cities in Shandong province.The important path for the sustainabledevelopment of resource-based cities in Shandong province is to promote theadjustment of industrial structure, especially the industrial structure upgrade, furtherimprove the quality of life and ecological environment and intensify efforts to attractinvestment of foreign.