Research On The Resources Curse And Transformation Of Resource-dependent Cities

Resource-dependent cities have contributed a lot to the socioeconomic development of China, but practices in some countries and regions have proved that rich resources, as a comparative advantage of resource-dependent cities, have not accordingly brought rapid economic growth; worse still, such cities are suffering from serious resources exhaustion are suffering from serious resources exhaustion, which has become a widespread phenomenon in most resource-dependent cities. Resources scarcity will unavoidably lead to the decline of resource-dependent cities; therefore, a study of the transformation of such cities is of vital importance to their sustainable development.The main body of this thesis consists of seven chapters in accordance with the logic of"The present situation of resource-dependent cities—disputes of the existence of the resource curse in resource-dependent cities—empirical study—causes analysis—solutions and suggestions". The introduction includes research background, significance, research methods, situation and the major innovations. The second part focuses on the basic situation of the resource-dependent cities. In the third chapter, the disputes of the existence of"resource curse"in the resource-dependent cities are analyzed in the perspective of resource curse. The fourth chapter makes an empirical study of the existence of "resource curse"in resource-based cities by firstly using the scale economy indicators. On the basis of the empirical conclusion in chapter four, the fifth chapter discusses the causes of the existence of resource curse in our resource-dependent cities. Chapter six continues to propose the basic idea of getting rid of resource curse in term of expanding scale economy. The last chapter is about the inadequacies of thesis and the direction of further study.Compared with many researches on the transformation of resource-dependent cities both at home and abroad, this thesis focuses on the research perspective and index, which makes a breakthrough in the following aspects:First, this thesis makes a relatively comprehensive and thorough analysis on the transformation of resource-dependent cities from the perspective of"resource curse", which is seldom studied in the past researches.Second, it is an innovation to employ the scale economic level index as a measure to judge whether there exist the phenomenon of resource curse. Besides, based on the model of regression analysis, this thesis has proved the negative correlation between the scale economic level and resource-dependent cities in our country through the construction of time series.Third, this thesis has proved that diseconomy of scale is the reason which leads to the phenomenon of"resource curse"and put forward corresponding measures.