On The Path-selection Of Sustainable Economic Development In The Ethnic Minority Areas

How to realize the sustainable development in the minority areas in China is an important issue related to the sustainable development of the whole economic development of China. On one hand, there are unique advantages in culture, natural resources, ecological diversities and the institution of regional autonomy in the minority areas. On the other hand, faced with the destruction of natural resources pressure of environmental pollution as well as the urgent task of speeding up economic development. The economic development in the minority areas should rely on their advantages of backward, but not the repetition of traditional way of"remedy after pollute".This paper attempts to explore the path-selection of sustainable economic development in the minority areas.Fundamentally, the problem of realizing sustainable economic development is how the economic development responds to the security of unsustainable use of resources in future and environmental capability in future. From the perspective of safe development, the paper analyzes the path-selection of sustainable economic development.The framework and main contents of the paper are as follows:Chapter 1 is an introduction, which defines some basic concepts clearly, such as minority areas, sustainable economic development and path selection, etc. Then, a comprehensive description is given to the relevant representative references in the theme. Finally, a brief introduction is given to research background, contents, methods and possible innovations of the paper.Chapter II is mainly about the basis of theoretical analysis of sustainable development, including Marxism economics, development economics and present regional economics as well as the economics of population, resources and environment, providing an important theoretical support for the later analysis.Chapter III discusses the general theories of sustainable economic development. First of all, it states the concept of sustainable economic security and sustainable development system, and reflects over the unsustainable economic development system in terms of three dimensions: time, space and knowledge.Then, further theoretical innovation is put forward on the basis of the concept of sustainable economic safety, and the exogenous and endogenous path of sustainable development is proposed in terms of the driving force of the sustainable development system. In the process of discussing the path of sustainable economic development, the author also gives a second thought to the existence of Kuznets curve, and proposes the concept of safety dividends, and tries to give some simple quantitative analysis and specification designs of safety dividends. Based on this, the author suggests the realization of sustainable economic development in China must adhere to safety dividends, and speed up endogenous path.Chapter IV focuses on particularity of path selection of sustainable economic development in minority areas. It first describes the present situation of economic development, resources and environment in minority areas in China, and then emphasizes on the advantages and disadvantages of backwardness in minority areas. Finally, from the standpoint of regional development policies, advantages of industrial competitiveness and long-term safety dividends, the author comes up with several suggestions on endogenous path of sustainable economic development in minority areas in China.Chapter V discusses the path optimization of sustainable economic development in minority areas in China from innovation integration and dynamic mechanism, and points out that innovation integration is essential to the advantages of minority areas in the process of achieving sustainable economic development, while optimizing the structure of force is the foundation of achieving sustainable economic development in ethnic minority areas.Chapter VI takes Xinjiang as a case to analyze thoroughly path of the sustainable economic development in ethnic minority areas. It first gives a brief introduction to the resources, environment and economic development of Xinjiang, and then explores some advantages and disadvantages of the Xinjiang. Based on this, it studies the problem of path selection of Xinjiang from the regional development strategy, industrial policy adjustment, and economic development of Xinjiang.