Abstract
With the increasing of labor salaries, the RMB exchange rate, resource product prices and requirements of environmental protection, inexpensive labor and land are no longer the decisive factor of regional competitiveness. From this perspective, China needs to shift from the extensive development mode to the sustainable development mode. Science and technology resources rational allocation is one of the key issues in sustainable development. Based on the counties (districts) data of Zhejiang Province in China, this paper portrays the spatial variation of regional sustainable development level of this area. This paper finds that counties tend to cluster in groups with the same sustainable development level, and this agglomeration trend has been enforced during the past several years. It then testifies to the relationship between the allocation of science and technology resources and local sustainable development, identifies science and technology human resources, financial resources and environmental resource are positively related to local sustainable development, except government financial support. The economic level has a negative relationship with regional sustainable development. This is because the development of the Zhejiang economy grown at the expense of the environment and ecosystem. Some advice is given according to the empirical analysis result.
Highlights
The global economy has developed greatly in the past century
This paper analyzes the relationship between science and technology resources and regional sustainable development theoretically based on related literature, and brings forward several hypotheses for human resources, financial resources and environmental resources
Zhejiang province in China, it examines the hypotheses and finds that in human resources, scientific and technological personnel, popularization of science and technology and labor education are positively related to regional sustainable development; in financial resources, regional total funding of science and technology, enterprise research and development enthusiasm are positively related to regional sustainable development but government financial support is not; in environmental resources, regional sustainable development is negatively related to economic level, and positively related to infrastructure construction and proportion of high technology
Summary
The global economy has developed greatly in the past century. Unreasonable utilization of natural resources produced a series of negative consequences. Societal, resource and environmental problems, such as environmental pollution, ecological imbalance, and resource depletion, humans have to reconsider production and living behavior. From this perspective, sustainable development is proposed as a new kind of development view. The Chinese government put the sustainable development strategy for the first time into the long-term planning of Chinese economic and social development in 1992.
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