Research On The Successive Industries In The Economic Transformation Of Yangquan City

In the background of global economic development, resources are crucially important for national and regional development. However, there are a series of problem concerning resources and environment. The study on economic transformation of resource-based cities has become a worldwide issue, and has attracted more and more attention in china as well. Scholars at home and abroad have conducted a number of intensive researches for the transformation of the resource-based cities. Based on a systematic review on the related domestic and foreign studies, the present thesis applied the comparative and empirical methods to analyze the major contradictions and problems that Yangquan, as a typical resource-based city, had encountered in the process of city's transformation, and conducted a study about it. The thesis consists of five chapters: Chapter one introduced the domestic and foreign difficulties faced by all the resource-based cities, made an overview about, recent studies on the economic formation of coal-based cities, put forward the targeted question with Shanxi Province, and at last described the research background, research problems, main content and methods; Chapter two presented the related theories on the transformation of resource-based cities; Chapter three was devoted to the patterns and implications of cities'transformation at home and abroad; Chapter four and five, on the basis of Yangquan's status quo and the combination of some developed courtiers'transformational experiences, empirically analyzed the choice of replaced industries in Yangquan's city transformation, put forward to the main view of this thesis---- to develop new leading industry, expand the industry chain and cultivate successive industry.