Transformation Of Resource-based Cities Research Articles

The impacts on regional “resource curse” by digital economy: Based on panel data analysis of 262 resource-based cities in China

Resource-based cities are areas with high incidence of “resource curse”, and digital economy is a pivotal force to avoid regional “resource curse” of resource-based cities. Based on panel data from 262 resource-based cities in China from 2013 to 2022, this article explores the impacts of digital economy on the social & economic development, further analyzes the direct and indirect effects by using an intermediary model, and evaluates the role of digital economy in the transformation of resource-based cities. The results shows that: 1) digital economy is conducive to alleviating “resources curse” of resource-based cities. 2) Technological investment is the optimal path to break away from the “resources curse” of resource-based cities. 3) The impact of digital economy on “resources curse” of resource-based cities has significant heterogeneity, where the improvement on the “resources curse” of growth resource-based cities is more significant. Some suggestions are giving as following: 1) accelerate the “digital infrastructure” of resource-based cities and enhance the digital supply capacity. 2) Clarify the positioning of the core industries of the digital economy and speed up the digitization of industries in resource-based cities. 3) Forming differentiated digital economy development strategies for resource-based cities to support the industrial structure adjustment and industry cultivation.

Analysis of new urbanization level measurement in Heilongjiang Province

In recent years, Heilongjiang Province has made significant contributions to the country based on its resource advantages, but the contradictions and problems in sustainable development have become increasingly prominent. In order to better study the economic upgrading and transformation of resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province, this article focuses on the new urbanization and industrial structure optimization level of resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province, Construct and analyze the measurement index system for the level of new urbanization and industrial structure optimization, respectively. Under the concept of regional coordinated development, an evaluation index system for new urbanization and industrial structure was constructed. The coefficient of variation method was used to calculate the weights of various indicators for the new urbanization system and industrial structure optimization system. The grey correlation theory was used to analyze the correlation between the selected indicators for characterizing the level of new urbanization and industrial structure optimization, aiming to make the correlation between the internal indicators of the system more reasonable, By promoting the coordinated development of new urbanization and industrial structure optimization, resource-based cities can achieve economic upgrading and transformation, thereby achieving sustainable economic development. The research results indicate that policy recommendations for coordinated development between the two are proposed.

The Impact of the Resource-Exhausted City Program on Manufacturing Enterprises’ Performance: A Policy Measures Perspective

The transformation of resource-based cities has a crucial impact on the development of local manufacturing enterprises. This study aims to assess the impact of the Resource-Exhausted City Program (RECP) on the performance of manufacturing enterprises, with a particular focus on the role of policy measures. Using data on manufacturing enterprises from 2004 to 2014, this study employs multiple difference-in-difference methods to investigate the impact of the RECP on corporate performance and its potential mechanisms. The results show that (1) the RECP can significantly improve the performance of firms in the pilot areas; (2) the implementation of RECP contributes to the improvement of manufacturing enterprises’ performance by using policy measures, mainly including subsidies, tax incentives and access to low-interest loans; and (3) the supportive effects of the RECP are more pronounced in outward-oriented, state-owned and larger manufacturing enterprises. This study provides new insights into the relationship between resource-exhausted city policies and corporate performance.

Recognizing the transformation characteristics of resource-based cities using night-time light remote sensing data: Evidence from 126 cities in China

The most important step in the growth and transformation of resource-based cities is to identify transformational traits scientifically and determine future transformation and upgrading directions. However, there is a lack of quantitative identification of the critical time points for resource-based city transformation. Our study identified one-hundred and twenty-six resource-based cities at the prefecture level using the remote sensing data of nighttime light from 2000 to 2020 in China. The critical time nodes of the resource-based city transformation were objectively identified from the perspective of nighttime light. The findings reveal that while most resource-based cities keep expanding, their size falls from 2000 to 2020. The shrinking of resource-based cities also showed a downward trend. While stable resource-based cities first saw a decline and then an increase. The crucial years for continuously expanding cities were mostly 2008–2011, for continuously stable cities occurred mainly in 2017–2020, and continuously shrinking cities occurred mainly in 2011–2014. The results also indicate that a city under continuous expansion (shrinkage) will gradually transform into a city of continuous stability when the expansion (shrinkage) reaches a certain extent. Ultimately, this study provides new insights into how resource-based cities transform and grow.

An Analysis of the Relationship between Immigration and the Development of Resource-based Cities in China - Centered on Daqing and Yichun in Heilongjiang Province

The main objective of this article is to understand the restoration of Northeast China and the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the needs of national construction and economic development, the rich natural resources in Heilongjiang have been rapidly developed. At the same time, a large number of immigrants have poured into the local mining and forest areas due to the attraction of natural resources. When immigrants bring the advanced equipment and cultural customs of the place of immigration into the local area, they also bring a new look to the local development, rapid economic growth and continuous improvement of various infrastructure. Qualitative method is used to accomplish this research study. Through the exploration of the construction, development and migration relationship of the two typical resource-based cities, Daqing and Yichun, we can fully summarize the objective laws of the development of resource-based cities, which can provide theoretical value and practical significance for the revitalization of the old industrial base in Northeast China, the transformation of resource-based cities and the attraction of talents.

Spatial–Temporal Variation and Influencing Factors on Housing Prices of Resource-Based City: A Case Study of Xuzhou, China

The steady development of the real estate market is an important link in the transformation of resource-based cities. Taking the main urban area of Xuzhou, a typical resource-based city in China, as an example, this study used a spatial–temporal geographically weighted regression (GTWR) method guided by characteristic price theory to analyze the evolution of the spatial–temporal pattern of house prices in resource-based cities and the influencing factors. The results of the study showed that, from the time trend, Xuzhou’s main city house price trend underwent the obvious stages; from June 2015 to September 2016, the trend was stable, and from March 2017 to June 2018, it was an “up–down–up” trend. With respect to the spatial distribution of house prices, from June 2015 to June 2017, the traditional business district and the major city in the Xuzhou metropolitan area were the areas of highest house prices, and after September 2017, the structural features of the traditional business district, along with the main city of the metropolitan area and the new city, formed the areas of highest importance. With regard to the factors influencing house prices, the type of dwelling, according to the building characteristics, had the largest impact on house prices, and the enrichment of housing types became an effective way to regulate housing prices. The impact of location characteristics on house prices varied depending on differences in the public infrastructure surrounding housing, with the contribution of the planned metro stations to house prices not effectively emerging. The impact of neighborhood characteristics on house prices varied, with tertiary care hospitals having a ‘neighborhood avoidance effect’ on house prices, given that hospital-generated waste was too densely distributed around houses, suppressing neighborhood house prices. The results of this study indicated that, in the process of real estate market development in resource-based cities, the planning department should consider the different functions and division of labor in each region and scientifically formulate urban development plans to provide a good external environment for the healthy development of the city’s property market.

Study on the Path of Sustainable Financial Development in Resource-based Regions

In recent years, China's economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. The transformation of economic development mode, optimization of industrial structure, and transformation of growth momentum are important ways for high-quality development, and this is also true for resource-based regions. Resource-based regions have inherent advantages in development, but as mineral resources are continuously excavated and exploited, many resource-based cities are facing serious economic decline, unemployment, and environmental degradation. Therefore, the transformation of resource-based cities and the sustainable development of the ecology and economy are highly valued by the country. In particular, China is currently in a stage of high-quality development, and resource-based cities should closely follow the national development direction and explore a new path suitable for their own sustainable development. This article takes the resource-based city of Ordos as an example to conduct comprehensive analysis on its fiscal revenue and expenditure data from 2011 to 2022 and points out the problems in the process of sustainable development of fiscal in resource-based regions, mainly including inadequate regional economic momentum, unreasonable fiscal sources, unreasonable industrial structure mainly relying on resource-based industries, and high concentration of tax revenue under the "tax-sharing system" fiscal system affecting the ability of municipal level coordination. This article proposes countermeasures and suggestions for the sustainable development of fiscal in resource-based regions, mainly including optimizing the business environment, promoting the integration of digital industry and physical industry, adjusting fiscal and tax policies, and developing local main tax categories.

Multiple urban resilience evaluation of resource-based cities’ sustainable transformation effect

Improving urban resilience is a key goal in the transformation of resource-based cities. This study examines the impact of sustainable development transitions in resource-based cities on urban ecology, economy, infrastructure, and social resilience. We measure the resilience of 285 prefecture-level cities in China by using the entropy weight method. In particular, we estimate the transformation effects of 121 resource-based cities from multiple resilience perspectives. The main empirical results show that all sub-resilience shows an obvious upward trend. Moreover, the economic, social, and infrastructure resilience have a spatial aggregation effect. Transitions towards sustainable development can make significant positive contributions to ecological resilience in resource-based cities, but it can also negatively impact social resilience. Therefore, governments need to address the social issues that can arise during transitions. This study provides a theoretical basis to inform government policy adjustments.

Transformation of Resource-Based Cities: The Case of Benxi

Resource-based cities, which emerge due to the large-scale industrialization of China, mainly rely on local natural resources for industrial layout and economic development. However, resources have been gradually exhausted due to overuse, resulting in a series of negative impacts on the environment and resources. In order to realize long-term sustainable development and avoid falling into the “resource curse,” measures such as industrial structure adjustment and technological upgrading to promote the transformation of these cities ought to be implemented. Taking Benxi, one of the most typical mineral resource-based cities in China, as an example, this study discusses the economic and environmental performance and existing problems in the local transformation process, comparing it with successful transformation patterns of global mineral resource-based cities. On this basis, a series of policy suggestions together with possible ways toward sustainable development are put forward and summarized.

The Impacts of High-Speed Rail on the Transformation of Resource-Based Cities in China: A Perspective of Market Segmentation

The Impacts of High-Speed Rail on the Transformation of Resource-Based Cities in China: A Perspective of Market Segmentation

Development characteristics, influencing mechanism and coping strategies of resource-based cities in developing countries: a case study of urban agglomeration in Northeast China.

The transformation of resource-based cities and coordinated regional development are of great value to global urbanization and sustainable economic development in developing countries. Based on Landsat satellite monitoring data and urban economic data, statistical analysis and geospatial model were used to analyze the characteristics of urban development in urban agglomeration in Northeast China from 2000 to 2020, and the influencing mechanism was quantitatively revealed. The results show that the expansion of urban agglomerations rate reached its peak from 2005 to 2010, and then the expansion rate continued to decline. The resources of central cities were concentrated, while the development of sub-central cities was weak. The overall urbanization rate slows down, the scale difference between high-order cities and low-order cities expands, and the regional urban system shifts from balanced development to polarized development. The overall development of urban agglomerations shows a centripetal agglomeration characteristic centered on the Harbin Changchun-Daqing and Central and southern Liaoning Economic belt. Its west expands faster than the East, and its south expands faster than the north. The driving factors of urban agglomeration development are mainly administrative power, followed by market power, external power and weak internal power. From the point of time and space, the external power is on the rise, while the internal power is affected by the industrial adjustment and lacks the staying power. In view of the coordinated development of resource-based cities, this paper proposes to establish the linkage and coordination mechanism of integrated development of urban agglomeration, speed up the construction of unified market system, carry out transformation positioning according to market demand and implement differentiation policy.

Small step, great rewards: rethinking mining sustainability from old perspectives to new frames

ABSTRACT There are increasing number of abandoned mines, which has gradually become a striking challenge for sustainable development and resource recycling. Safety risks and environmental pressures have obliged the mining industry to achieve the secondary development of mines. This paper builds a conceptual framework for abandoned mine resource utilization, and then denotes the 5 R principles (remining, recovery, redevelopment, reutilization, and recycling) and the energy-based, resource-based and function-based development patterns for scientific resource deployment with abandoned mines. Decision factors are investigated from four types of reutilization modes with 43 indicators, which can be classified as economy, resource potential, geography and safety. An integrated analytic hierarchy process (ANP) and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) model are employed to explore the suitable reutilization methods for abandoned mines. The results from the case study show that suitable temperature conditions and technical problems are the top two decisive factors with weights of 0.3178 and 0.1604 respectively. The best strategy for a stone pit is to develop the service industry, which is valued at 20.99% in the seven strategies. The findings of this research indicate the urgent task of abandoned mine database construction and the significance of social performance management for mine closure. Implications are advanced for sustainable management and abandoned mine resource conservation, which help to implement low-carbon transition in the mining sector from the life cycle and cradle-to-cradle perspectives while achieving socioeconomic development and the transformation of resource-based cities.

Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China

Yang, Y., Y. Fang, Y. Xu, and Y. Zhang. 2021. Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China. Ecology and Society 26(2):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12280-260220

Impact of ecological innovation on the economic transformation of resource-based cities

Impact of ecological innovation on the economic transformation of resource-based cities

The effect of transformation of resource-based cities on labor demand in China

The effect of transformation of resource-based cities on labor demand in China

Analysis of the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation on the Transformation of the Resource-based Cities

The transformation of resource-based cities is mainly to reduce the energy consumption of industrial enterprises, improve the ecological environment, adjust the industrial structure, and solves the problem about using a single industry as the main industry of the city. Based on the panel data of 111 resource cities in China from 2006 to 2017, this paper uses panel threshold regression method to study the impact of environmental regulation on resource-based urban transformation. The results show that environmental regulation has a significant single-threshold effect on industrial energy consumption, but environmental regulation has a significant linear relationship with industrial structure adjustment. The increase in the intensity of environmental regulation can effectively reduce the use of industrial energy consumption, while promoting the rationalization of urban industrial structure. The government can increase the degree of environmental regulation, increase market openness and increase investment scale to improve the efficiency of resource-based urban transformation.

Research on Development Strategies of Low-Carbon Economy for Heavy Industrial Cities in China

Heavy industry would consume a lot of energy and make serious pollution, so it is important to develop a low-carbon economy for the need of not only changing the mode of economic development, but also building an ecological city. However, in the process of developing a low-carbon economy, there are many problems such as slowly development of carbon alternative industry, backward technology level, short of financing method for low-carbon economy. Therefore, it is important to accelerate the transformation of resource-based cities, promote the recycling of resources, develop alternative and renewable energy resources, improve the financing environment for low-carbon economy, and improve the development of carbon trading.

The Path Selections of the Resource-based Cities Transformation in China

The transformation of resource-based cities, a worldwide problem, is a broad, cross-cutting and complex issue, which involves many fields of economics, sociology, geography, mining science and ecology. Therefore, the development of resource-based cities in China has been a top priority among researchers. In this paper, the author will work out the best pattern and path of resource-based cities by researching on transition modes, approaches and policies.

Analysis of Path Dependence in the Transformation of Resource-Based Cities

Path dependence is a universal problem in the transformation of resource-based cities that lead to fall into hold-up dilemma, lost perfect chance to transform, and pay more cost. This paper offered a model of resource-based cities life cycle that revealed the general transformation path that emphasized the key booming period, analyzed equilibrium of traditional resource industry and alternative industry that discloses the mechanism why the transformation of resource-based cities delayed until the recession period came, and suggested that the government of resource city can play important role in process of transformation through a model of entry barrier of new alternative industry.