Study On Industrial Structure Optimization Under The Resource And Environment Constraints In Liaoning Province

Industrial structure is an important link of the economic activities and the ecologicalenvironment. Industrial structure and economic growth, resource utilization as well asenvironmental pollution are closely related, therefore, optimizing the industrial structureaffects the quality and sustainability of economic growth directly. It’s extremelyimportant for a country or region to coordinated development of economic and resources,and environment. The contradictions, which are between limited supply and growingdemand of natural resources as well as between the limited carrying capacity of theenvironment and the growing number of pollutant emissions, have become increasinglyacute. Exploration of industrial structure optimization under the resource andenvironment constraints is of great theory and practical significance, as the multiplepressures and constraints of resource scarcity, energy shortages, environmental pollution.The above opinion supplys a good development opportunity of optimizing the industrialstructure under the resource and environment constraints.Liaoning Province is a traditional old industrial bases in China, its economy hasmaintained rapid growth. Especially since carrying out base of northeast old industry torevitalize the strategy, the growth rate of Liaoning Province is always higher than10%.However, for a long time, the economic development of Liaoning Province is a targetwith economic growth, and it’s extensive. The rapid growth of Liaoning economy is atthe expense of high resource and environmental costs. For Liaoning Province, the supplyof land resources is limited, while the demand is increasing; already scarce waterresources are tense and tense; the mineral resources reserves are relatively abundant, butthey are non-renewable, even some of them have run out; The total discharge of majorpollutants is increasing and above the national average. With existing economicdeveloping mode, resource and environment constraints must enhance and will limiteconomic growth. Thus, Liaoning Province should seize the opportunity given by thetimes, transform economic growth mode from extensive to intensive, pursue theeconomic and social goals to coordinate the contradictions among economic growth,resource consumption and environmental pollution, and at last optimize the Liaoningindustrial structure under resource and environment constraints. Since the reform and opening up, the Liaoning industry appears the structure of“secondary-tertiary-primary”, and the proportion of the secondary industry is in about48%. As we all know, Compared with the primary and tertiary industries, the secondaryindustry is the high consumption and high pollution industry, therefore, the higherproportion of the secondary industry is, the greater resource and environment constraintsare. Within the three industries, he primary industry is relatively backward with atraditional agriculture and animal husbandry dominated strcture; industry in Liaoning iscentered on high consumption and high polluting heavy industries such as manufacturingindustry and metal smelting industry, which makes up80%; the structure of the tertiaryindustry is traditional and mainly in the wholesale and retail trade industury,transportation, storage and postal industry, it produces a heavy pressure to resources andenvironment. To get rid of the resources and environment constraints, Liaoning Provinceshould optimize the structure not only in the three industries but also in their internalstructure.Firstly, the dissertation combs the literature of the domestic and foreign scholarsresearching on optimizing the industrial structure under resource constraints,environment constraints, and resource and environment constraints, thus explain thenecessity of this dissertation. Secondly, the dissertation discusses the relationshipbetween resource constraints and economic growth, environment constraints andeconomic growth separately, and theory of regional leading industries selection, all ofthem are the theoretical basis of this dissertation. Again, in order to understand theimpact of changing in industrial structure on resource constraints and environmentconstraints further, the dissertation analyzes the evolution of Liaoning industrial structureand its corresponding resource effects and environment effects since implementing therevitalizing strategy. Thus it proves that the existing industrial structure in LiaoningProvince causes the economic growth unsustainable, and structural optimization isimminent. Then, the dissertation analyzes economic profile, industrial internal structureconditions and corresponding resource constraints and environment constraints of thethree industries separately, thus chooses the leading industuries by standard anslysis, anddetermines optimization paths, areas and products of leading industuries under theguidance of the three indsturies’ optimization directions. Last, the dissertation puts forward countermeasures of optimizing Liaoning industrial structure under resource andenvironment constraints refering to the new ideas and the new strategies of economicdevelopment.The dissertation aims at breaking out of resource and environment constraints, bychoosing leading industuries and their optimization paths, areas and products, withoptimization of industuries structure as its approach, and realizing the sustainabledevelopment both in society and economy. In the course of the study, it can be shownclearly from the effect analysis that changing industrial structure has a great impact onresources and environment, especially the secondary industry, this part provides thebasement of further researching on industrial structure optimization under resource andenvironment constraints. In addition, choosing and optimizing leading industuries of thethree industuries under resource and environment constraints provides effective methodsand the solutions of choice for Liaoning industrial restructuring.