6.4 Promote sustainable development of resource-based cities

    To promote comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development in resource-based cities, we will aim at creating jobs, eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood and housing environment, setting up functional social security system, and maintaining social stability. By expanding reform and opening up, as well as promoting independent innovation, we must make strong policies and measures to improve institutions and systems, promote industrial upgrading and transformation of economic growth mode, cultivate alternative industries and improve ecological environment.

    We must establish long-term incentive mechanisms: first, to establish compensation mechanism for resource exploitation. When exploiting resources, behaviors of various market entities must follow market principles, assume responsibility for resources compensation, ecological environment protection and rehabilitation and be regulated by legal, economic and necessary administrative means. Secondly, to establish aiding mechanisms for sun-setting industries. We must carry out overall planning, accelerate industrial restructuring and upgrading, and vigorously develop alternative industries to transfer surplus labor. Social security system must be improved and various vocational training must be rolled out to help laid-off workers get reemployed. We must solve historically inherited problems in resource enterprises and ensure smooth exit of resources-depleted enterprises and promote social stability.

    Moreover, we shall vigorously develop succeeding or alternative industries following market guidance and make businesses play a major role in this process. For cities with stable output in resources exploitation, we must formulate rational exploitation plans, improve resource recovery efficiency by using new techniques and processing methods and improve resources utilization efficiency by developing upstream and downstream industries, thus translating resources advantages into economic competitiveness. We must also encourage the development of new industries. For cities with declining output in resources, we must enhance comprehensive appraisal of resources, fully explore secondary resources, expand resources prospecting in other regions and overseas so as to find sources of resources for local enterprises. In the meantime, we must speed up the establishment of alternative industries with great potential and strong competitiveness. As for the resource-depleted cities, the focus is to shift orientation of industries, transform traditional industries by using high and new technologies, and form new leading industries tapping on local advantages.

Column 8   Major tasks of pilot reform of economic transformation in Six Resource-based Cities         Fuxin City: to promote agriculture and farm produce processing industries, develop alternative industries based on scientific planning, strengthen exploitation in surrounding mining districts, and actively help to develop coalfield area in eastern Inner Mongolia to transfer surplus labor. Ecological environment must be improved in mining areas.     Daqing City: to strengthen exploration in new potential areas and increase reserves; to improve tertiary oil recovery and recovery efficiency through using innovative technologies, and mitigate the declining trend of oil oilfields; to expand petrochemical industry and accelerate the development of alternative industries, such as new construction materials, oil industry equipment and farm produce processing, etc.     Yichun City: to push forward natural forest protection project and experiment with state-owned forest ownership reform; to deepen economic reforms, enhance vitality of enterprises, and separate government functions from enterprises and straighten out governmental functions, and encourage the in-depth development of timber industry, forestry ecological tourism, medicine, green food and other competitive industries.     Liaoyuan City: to actively attract high-tech businesses and professionals and develop special synthetic fiber, high-performance special alloyed material, new construction material,etc; to develop biological medicines, health products and organic food processing by relying on biotechnologies; to enhance competitiveness of traditional industries, such as equipment manufacturing, textiles and garments, construction materials, etc.     Baishan City: to develop tourism industry by fully exploring tourism resources of Changbai Mountain, and make it a renowned attraction in Northeast China; to cultivate forest resources and promote in-depth processing of timber; to expand mineral water producing industry and health products industry with Ginseng and Ciwujia as major raw materials.     Panjin City: to ensure stable oil and natural gas output for a long period; to expand petrochemical industry and actively develop fine chemicals, plastic processing and new construction materials industries; to expand and strengthen equipment manufacturing industries like small and medium-sized shipbuilding, and petroleum drilling and recovering equipment, etc; to fully utilize ecological resources by developing green food processing industries and ecological tourism.

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