Impact Of Policy Support On Economic Development Of Resource-based Cities In China

Resource-based cities are cities that dominate the mining and processing of natural resources such as minerals and forests.Resource-based cities have made great contributions to advancing China’s industrialization construction process,establishing an independent and complete industrial system,and promoting the development of the national economy.Nowadays,with the problems of uncoordinated and unbalanced domestic economic development,the economic growth of resource-based cities is stagnation,and social development is facing severe challenges.It is urgent to transform and upgrade to accelerate the transformation of economic development methods.In order to achieve the sustainable development of resource-based cities,the State Council promulgated the “National Sustainable Development Plan for Resource-based Cities(2013-2020)” in 2013.Location and multi-domain planning and guidance,as well as the latest list of specific resource-based cities.The purpose of this article is to analyze and evaluate the effect of the policy implementation of the National Resource-based City Sustainable Development Plan(2013-2020),and to explore whether the plan has really played a role and promoted the economic development of resource-based cities.First of all,this paper summarizes the existing research literature and finds that the past research angles have mostly focused on the theoretical analysis of resource-based city life cycle,resource curse,and transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities.Few studies have involved evaluating the policy of resource-based city transformation and upgrading Implementation effect.This paper uses data from 276 prefecture-level cities across the country from 2003 to 2017 as a research sample,introduces policy dummy variables and time dummy variables,and refers to relevant literature to select ten control variables that affect regional economic development.In order to meet the premise of parallel trend assumptions and to solve the problem of sample selectivity bias,this paper uses the propensity score matching method to obtain a control group that matches the treatment group,and then uses a double difference model to empirically analyze the implementation of the plan for China’s resource-based cities.The impact of economic development was finally tested by mechanism,and the robustness was tested from three perspectives of variables,data,and measurement methods.Based on the empirical results,the conclusion is drawn that the implementation of the National Resource-based City Sustainable Development Plan(2013-2020)has a significant positive net effect on the economic development of resource-based cities,that is,the implementation of the plan has promoted the resource-based city economy Transformation and development,and play a driving role through industrial and employment policies.Finally,this article puts forward some policy recommendations based on the empirical results: continue tobuild a macro-policy favorable environment and micro-policy support system for the transformation and development of resource-based cities,and give full play to the policy-driven effect through the construction of a regional high-quality soft environment;Pricing mechanism for resource products,while establishing a revenue distribution system that is conducive to promoting fair and coordinated development of the region,guide resource-based cities to accumulate capital through primitive resource advantages,and promote sustainable development of the regional economy;The practical policies have taken root and really played a role.