Industrial Transformation And Employment Change Of Old Industrial City

An important issue affecting state security and economic prosperity is industrial transformation of the old industrial city in China's regional economy. Since 1990s, with the accelerating process of economic globalization, social transformation in china has happened. Each city has begun large-scale urban renewal and revitalization. No matter on form or on scale,industrial transformation of the old industrial city in China is still developing. These changes are manifested in industrial structure adjustment, industrial space reconstruction and industrial organization change etc. The employment is an issue which is most deeply affected by industrial transformation of the old industrial city. It is different with the incidence of other cities of China, which is more centralized and more large-scale in the space and time. On basis of other scholars'academic achievements, with the process of industrial transformation of the old industrial city through the whole paper, this dissertation expounds systematically and makes a case study on the principles of the process of industrial transformation of the old industrial city, influence factors of industrial transformation of the old industrial city, interaction of industrial transformation and employment of the old industrial city, in the view of urban geography. A tentative theory system for industrial transformation of the old industrial city and employment has been set up.The main body consists of four parts.The first part mainly explains the research background, relevant concepts and basic theories, which provides a theoretical groundwork for researching industrial transformation and employment space, including Chapters I and II. Chapter I begins with the background for selection of papers, then summarizes and evaluates industrial transformation and employment space. In the review of employment space, the researches from the perspective of geography, which have had some researches in foreign countries in employment space structure, employment space differentiation, and employment suburbanization, while domestic researches are little. Chapter II describes relevant theories of industrial transformation and employment space, including the theory of industrial structure, industrial space, industrial organization and the theory of spatial division of labor, labor regulation, employment elasticity, unemployment etc.The second part deals with the theoretical issues of industrial transformation of the old industrial city, including Chapters III and IV. Chapter III analyzes the influential factors of industrial transformation of the old industrial city thoroughly and systematically, which include economic factor, policy factor, innovation factor, resources and environment factors. Chapter IV investigates the changes in the interaction of industrial transformation and employment in the old industrial city. There are four critical regional features on the changes, with the interaction of industrial transformation and employment structure, employment space, employment institution, employment idea.The third part is a case study. As a typical old industrial city in China, Shenyang's industrial transformation is a representative one. This part explores industrial transformation of Shenyang from perspective of industrial structure, industrial space and industrial organization. Then, it analyses employment effect on industrial transformation, which including the change of employment structures, space, institutions and cultures. The results indicate that there are still structural contradictions of employment and re-employment, because Shenyang's have reformed on the state-owned enterprises and urban economy from the mid-1990s. Finally, this dissertation discuss the countermeasures of employment enhancement during revitalizing the old industrial base in northeast, developing portal cities, constructing the new northern developing area and the western industrial corridor of Shenyang, which include to develop the tertiary industry and diverse nonpublic ownership economies, increase labor-intensive industries and small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate reformation of the state-owned enterprises and perfect the social security system etc.The fourth Part is a conclusion, which summarizes 10 basic conclusions and points out innovations and weakness of the whole dissertation.