Study on Relative Carrying Capacity of Resources of Henan Province

Abstract

The relative carrying capacity of resources methods was used to calculate the relative carrying capacity of land resources, the relative carrying capacity of economic resources and carrying capacity of integrated resource of Henan province during 1978-2008. Study shows that: carrying capacity of integrated resource of Henan province is overload, overloading population between 10.8 ~ 28.9 million, showing a "low - high - low" fluctuations; before 1996, land resources is the main capacity resources of Henan province, while economic resources become the main capacity resources from then on, mainly due to the decrease of indices of the carrying capacity of land resources. The key factors to restrict sustainable development in Henan province is a weak economic foundation and a large population, so Henan province should speed up economic development, enhance the carrying capacity of economic resources; control the rapid population growth, improve population quality, make great efforts to achieve sustainable development of resources, environmental, economic and population in Henan province