The Problem Of Unemployment In China's Resource-based Cities Transition

The cities that are full of resources in our country have their respective issues, especially some serious issues faced by those cities with depleted resources and reformation is inevitable. During the process of reformation among the cities with rich resources, the issue of unemployment has gradually become a big problem for reformation. The high unemployment rate causes a large number of work forces to separate from the process of social production, which results in wastage of available labor, increasing instability in society, difficulties to achieve social justice and encumbering the social and economical development.Under the current circumstances, it is considerably difficult to solve the unemployment problem by relying solely upon market strength. The governments of cities with rich resources should take full responsibility for solving the unemployment problem. Unemployment is not a problem to be considered on its own, it is closely related to social and economical development, and it is directly influenced by the government's public management policy. With integrating the trend of forming a service government in current administration management reformation, the fact that how the governments of cities with resources solve the unemployment issue during the cities'reformations, not only do they have the theoretical value of public management, but also the real significance of advancing the reformation.The paper discusses the following four parts:The first part summarizes Chinese and foreign current studies and related theories. It emphasizes the theories of reformation of cities with rich resources, unemployment and service government.The second part describes the phenomenon and characteristic of the process of reformations among this type of cities, and analyses the reasons from macro and micro perspectives.The third part analyses service governments'responsibilities and effects in the process of reformations of these cities, using the management models applied by foreign governments when they dealt with unemployment issue that occurred during this type of cities reformations and their experiences. Then from service governments'point of view, suggestions and strategies to encounter the unemployment problem will be raised.The fourth part is about demonstration analysis. Using The city 0f Fu Xin, one of the experimental cities'reformations as an example and analyzing the problems and reasons of unemployment ascertained during the process, in order to bring forward a more effective strategy.There are two reasons from both the macro and micro perspectives when considering the unemployment issue during the reformation of cities that are full of resources. The analysis of this dissertation is established in service governments'functions of macro environment control and public service, which help reformations of these types of cities and unemployment issues. The purpose of this paper is, from the service governments'perspective, to generate the best strategy to solve the unemployment problem during those cities'reformations.