A Study On The Sustainable Development Of Resourced-Exhausted Cities

The resource-based city in our country contributed towards the nation. Since 1990's , some cities were faced with some difficulties such as recession and worse environment owning to exhausted resource and system innovation. These difficulties bring negative result to the sustainable development of local economy and society. The problem how to keep resource-exhausted cities developing harmoniously are becoming a universal problem.This dissertation adheres to the scientific viewpoint of development, sustainable development standpoint is taken into account to guide sustainable development of resource-exhausted cities. By using varied subjects such as regional economics, development economics, urban economics and statistics, and taking all kinds of research measures, this dissertation takes the sustained development of resource-exhausted cities as a goal to spread research.This dissertation includes five sections: The first section puts forward the background and meaning of the research goal, discourses upon that it is necessary and urgent that resource-exhausted cities realize sustainable development, and then briefly reviews some existing research on the sustainable development of resource-exhausted city, sets forth the idea, method, structure and some innovations in this dissertation. The second section stresses some conceptions, for example, what is resource-based cities and what is resource-exhausted cities, analyses some difficulties resource-exhausted cities are confronted with, points out that these cities will have to walk the way of sustainable development, then sets forth the meaning of sustainable development of resource-exhausted cities. In the third section, some experience are introduced from foreign countries, some inspirations are summarized to the sustainable development of resource-exhausted city of our nation. The fourth section takes Baiyin city as a case to put up demonstration analysis, emphasizes particularly on the substitute of industry, and establishes index system of evaluation to analyses the sustainable development level of Baiyin city. We can see that the economic conversion of Baiyin city has made some great progress, its economic and social development has stepped the right way. However, some shortages are anxious to resolve .The next section, some constructive suggestions are pointed out to help the further practice of Baiyin city, and other cities which are faced with some difficulties owning to finity and non-regeneration of resource may beneficial from this dissertation.