Factors Industrial Transformation Of Resource Effectiveness And Impact

With the rapid economic development in China, the resource-dependent cities have been providing strategic resources, such as coal, petroleum, steel products and nonferrous metal. But as the transformation and reforming of the economic system continuously deepens, the structural and institutional contradictions that accumulated through a long period come outstanding increasingly, posing severe restrictions to the sustainable economic and social development of resource-dependent cities. Therefore, the issue of transition from traditional development modes and industrial transformation of resource-dependent cities has aroused widespread concerns of government and academic researchers. In fact, taken as a whole, the effect of industrial transformation of resource cities is significantly different and unsatisfactory, which stimulate my thinking over the issue of transformation effects and influencing factors of resource-dependent cities.This paper followed a scientific research process. The first step was fundmental research on some basic concepts and theories, and the second step was evaluation study on industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities, followed by the third part of analysis on influencing factor of industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities by the method of SEM. The last step was research on countermeasure and suggestions to improve the transformation effect of resource-dependent cities.This paper is composed of four sections, which are as followed:1. Literature review and theory introduction.The first part of this section is about reviews and appraisals on domestic and foreign literatures in the fields of resource-dependent cities transformation. The foreign literature review work included resource-dependent cities transformation history, influencing factors and transformation mode. And domestic review work laid emphasis on analyzing the change of quantity of articles on resource-dependent cities transformation, summing up the relative hot topics in this field. Some appraisal is also given on present research work about transformation effect assessment, transformation mode as well as influencing factors. According to the studies mentioned above, differentials between domestic and foreign studies on transformation of the resource-dependent cities were analyzed comparatively, and the shortcoming of current studies was also introduced.In the part of theory introduction, the concept of resource-dependent city and resource exhausted cities were defined, stating categorically the research subject of this paper. And some basic theories were introduced such as resource-based city lifecycle theory and industry structure evolution theory.2. Evaluation study on industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities in China. This section is about evaluation study on industry transformation effect of resource-dependent cities in China. Firstly, a theoretical system on assessment of industry transformation effect of resource-dependent cities was built to provide a sufficient theoretical basis for the evaluation work later. Secondly, an evaluation index system was built to evaluate the transformation effect, and the detailed explanation of the indicators selected was also given in this part. Thirdly, the industrial transformation effect of some typical resource-dependent cities in China was evaluated by PCA approach integrating this evaluation index system. And finally, the analysis on the assessment results led to some meaningful conclusions.3. Study on influencing factor of industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities. The purpose of this study work in this section is to reveal general factors which affect industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities. Firstly, theoretical analysis was carried out on the potential factors which may influence the industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities, and according to the theoretical analysis some research hypotheses were put forward in this part. Secondly, the main study method of this paper, structural equation modeling method was introduced, and the feasibility of the application of this method was analyzed. Thirdly, the research hypotheses mentioned were tested by structural equation modeling method. Finally, some discussion was made on the empirical studies results, and some corresponding suggestions were proposed.4. Research on countermeasure to improve the transformation effect of resource-dependent cities. This section brought forward the corresponding countermeasures to improve the industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities in China, which range from substitute industries selection, capital accumulation and utilization, ability of technology innovation, human resource compensating mechanism for resource explorations and ecology to economic cooperation.In conclusion, the main contributions are the construction of evaluation index system for, and the composition of evaluation benchmark on industrial transformation of resource-dependent cities based on city level data from China, and the reveal of influencing factor on industrial transformation effect of resource-dependent cities by method of SEM. All in all, this paper reflects the cross-cutting, cutting-edge, integration and applicability of my research work, expected to have high academic study value and practical application value.