关键词: 资源型城市, 矿业城市, 职能分类, 职能演化, 中国

Abstract:

Resource-based cities are of great concern in China. Little literature has been published on the understanding of their functions. This paper attempts to define five functional categories of these cities, most of which are dependent on mining to varying degrees. City function features are composed of four elements, i.e. , to superior function, specialised sectors of the city, functional intensity and functional scale. The first element is defined as a ratio of the number of mining employees to that of industrial employees. The other three are defined after Zhou Yixing and Sun Zexing (1997). The category of samples are modified after Liu Yungang (2006). Five functional types of cities are identified, i.e., super specialized mining cities, multiplex mining cities, super specialized industrial cities, multiplex industrial cities and trade cities. These represent progressive functional diversification of the resource-based city. Although cities have shown a trend towards diversification, most remain within their original categories, and functional transition appears to be a long-term process.

Key words: resource-based cities, mining cities, functional classification, functional transition, China