Resource-based cities, as a special type of city, are the proof of an era, and their development process has obvious stage characteristics. Currently, 262 cities of different levels in China have been identified as resource-based cities. Resource-based cities have made important contributions to urban development and national construction to some extent. However, due to their own particularities, most resource-based cities are faced with resource exhaustion. At present, 69 cities in China are identified as resource-exhausted cities; therefore, it is necessary to study land use change and habitat quality in such cities. Yu et al. [1] analyzed the relationship between land use change and food, energy and water in Shizuishan City, China, it is found that the rapid transformation of resource-depleted cities is to achieve a balance among the economy, society, and ecology. Wang et al. [2] used the residual intelligent module network classification method to classify the land use types in Jiaozuo city from 1993-2020, and used PCA to analyse the driving factors of land use changes,