The complexity for the resource-based cities in China on creating sustainable development

Ruan, Fangli; Liang, Yan; Wang, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102571

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“…Existing research has focused on the development and layout of industrial cities, including the industrial layout and environmental effects of mining, coal, coal chemical, and resource-based cities [6,20,[31][32][33]. With the evolution of the unreasonable industrial structure of coal-dependent cities, which are mainly distributed in China, Australia, the United States, Russia, and India, the corresponding cities are facing resource wastage, pollutant emissions, and fragile ecological structures [34].…”

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“…With the evolution of the unreasonable industrial structure of coal-dependent cities, which are mainly distributed in China, Australia, the United States, Russia, and India, the corresponding cities are facing resource wastage, pollutant emissions, and fragile ecological structures [34]. Furthermore, China's resourcebased cities are divided into cities dependent on oil, coal, metal, nonmetals, and forest resources [20]. A case study in Huai'an, China, found that a salt chemical city has evolved from an industrial complex with high energy consumption into a consolidated growth-promoting city-scale diversification system, which illustrates the interaction between the chemical industry and city development [35].…”

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“…Overreliance on the chemical industry also exacerbates the "resource curse" phenomenon [19], which has caused many cities to face difficulties in their economic transitions as well as economic recessions due to excessive dependence on resources [20]. erefore, many economically developed cities have begun to switch out of the chemical industry and develop non-/low-polluting industries, which scholars call the post-oil industry era [6,21,22].…”

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“…erefore, many economically developed cities have begun to switch out of the chemical industry and develop non-/low-polluting industries, which scholars call the post-oil industry era [6,21,22]. Many resource-based cities and CICs, such as Pittsburgh (USA), Kitakyushu (Japan), Ruhr (German), and Lorraine (France), have already successfully achieved sustainable development under different policies [20]. However, as China is still at the stage of rapid industrialization, the chemical industry continues to be an important pillar industry in most cities.…”

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Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

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As an economic pillar, major resource consumer, and polluter of cities, the chemical industry determines many cities’ transformation, prosperity, and decay. It is thus a major concern for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In China, which is at the stage of accelerated industrialization that is varied across regions, the chemical industry has gradually retreated from developed cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, in the eastern region, and has become the inevitable choice for industrialization of less-developed cities, such as Xi’an, Chengdu, and Chongqing, in the western region. This study took the perspectives of chemical industrial sectors and their spatial differences to understand the changing patterns of the chemical industry and its dominant cities. It identified chemical industrial cities (CICs), examined their spatial-temporal patterns with respect to their industry scale and structure, and accounted for factors influencing the spatial evolution from coastal areas to inland regions. The results show that large CICs were mainly located in coastal port regions with balanced industrial sectors, while small CICs were mainly distributed in inland areas with abundant oil and coal resources and a single dominant industrial sector. The location factors of ports, markets, and technology play important roles in the eastern region, while resource conditions and foreign direct investment promote the chemical industry’s development in the central, western, and northeastern cities. These findings improve the understanding of CICs’ spatial transformation and shed light on the policy-making of chemical industrial development in China and other developing countries.

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“…In conditions of dynamic change of global community operation and development in the 21st century, global climate change, depletion of natural resources, transformation of human potential, development of information economy, issues of efficient use of all types of resources are becoming particularly relevant. Global agenda for the planet sustainable development, studied by Russian (Bolshakov & Shamaeva, 2017;Chernikova & Baranov, 2018;Chernikova, Zlatitskaya, & Klimashina, 2019;Marinchenko, 2019) and international scientists (Choi, Thangamani, & Kissock, 2019;Corsi, Pagani, Kovaleski, & Luiz, 2020;Hernandez, Paoli, & Cullen, 2017;Knuth, 2018;Li, Chiu, & Lin, 2019;Li, Stoeckl, King, 2019;Liu, Guo, & Nie, 2020;Pan, Pan, Hu, Tu, & Zheng, 2019;Qian, Wang, Wang, & Chen, 2019;Ruan, Yan, & Wang, 2020;Wang, Xu, & Ren, 2019), suggests integration of three components: economic, social and environmental one, whereas resource efficiency assessment maintaining balance between them is seen as a key component.…”

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Transformation performance and subsystem coupling of resource‐based cities in China: An analysis based on the support‐pressure framework

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The sustainable development of resource-based cities is vital to China's high-quality development. Based on the supportpressure framework, this study simplifies the city system into an economy-society subsystem (ESS) and a resourceenvironment subsystem (RES), and measures the economy social developmental level (ESDL) and resource environmental carrying capacity (RECC) of China's 116 resource-based cities using the improved entropy-TOPSIS model. Then, it applies the coupling coordination degree (CCD) and relative development models to explore their coupling coordination relationships and relative developmental types. The results are as follows. (1) The ESDL and RECC of China's resource-based cities have improved significantly, and there is a large divergence between cities in different regions, development stages, and dominant resource types. (2) The CCD between the ESDL and RECC of China's resource-based cities is still not ideal, and no city qualifies for the high coordination category. (3) Overall, the RECC lags behind the ESDL, and the cities with a lagging ESDL are concentrated in the western and northeastern regions. Based on these conclusions, three specific suggestions are put forth. This study may provide a scientific reference for the Chinese government to formulate a sustainable development plan for resource-based cities.

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The complexity for the resource-based cities in China on creating sustainable development

Cited by 112 publications

References 52 publications

Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

Resource Efficiency Assessment In Mineral Resources Management

Transformation performance and subsystem coupling of resource‐based cities in China: An analysis based on the support‐pressure framework

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