Economic vulnerability of mining city —A case study of Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, China |
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| Authors: | He Li Pingyu Zhang Yeqing Cheng |
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| Institution: | (1) Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130012, China;(2) Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China |
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| Abstract: | The economic system of mining city is of typical vulnerability characteristics that can be manifested by its high economic
sensitivity and lack of response capacity to the gradual depletion of regional mineral resources. Taking Fuxin City of Liaoning
Province as a case, this paper established an economic vulnerability assessment method integrating BP neural network with
vulnerability index, then carried out an economic vulnerability assessment of Fuxin during 1989–2006. The results indicate
that: 1) Affected by the gradual depletion of regional mineral resources, the economic development of Fuxin had kept high
economic sensitivity from 1995 to 2001, and the response capacity to cope with and adapt to the impacts of the perturbation
of mineral resources was weak and relatively lag. The evolution of economic vulnerability can be divided into three stages:
in 1989–1994, the economic vulnerability of Fuxin City decreased slowly; in 1995–2001, the beginning stage of economic transformation,
the economic vulnerability of Fuxin City went up rapidly; in 2002–2006, the economic vulnerability of Fuxin City descended
and showed a trend to be stable. 2) The influence of economic sensitivity on Fuxin’s economic vulnerability is more evident
than that of response capacity. 3) The decreasing supply of mineral resources and the simple industrial structure are main
factors leading to the economic sensitivity of Fuxin. 4) The improvement of economic response capacity of Fuxin has typical
characteristics of input-driven growth, and external assistance is of great importance to the rapid improvement of economic
response capacity of Fuxin. And 5) the change from the simple industrial structure to diversified one of Fuxin is still unaccomplished,
and the contribution of non-coal-based industry to local economic development is relatively limited.
Foundation item: Under the auspices of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40635030), Knowledge
Innovation Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-342, No. KZCX2-YW-321) |
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| Keywords: | mining city economic vulnerability economic transformation Fuxin City |
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