Strategic Choice on Transformation Mode of China’s Resource-based Cities

Abstract

The industrial structure of the resource-based cities is relatively single. The ability to withstand macroeconomic risk is relatively weak. And with the depletion of resources, the issue of the transformation of the resource-based cities is becoming more and more urgent. Currently, researches focus mainly on the selection and developing of the leading industries of the resource-based cities. This is the goal and direction of the transformation in the resource-based cities, which is to be solved in the researches. The key to the sustainable development of resource-based cities is to choose the appropriate mode based on the specific circumstances. Referring to the examples of some successful transformation and the existing theoretical results, the paper summarizes and introduces the transformation modes of the resource-based cities in China, which can provide a guidance to the sustainable development of the resource-based cities.