REN Dong-ming
The new period refer to the time after the 1990s, roughly between 1990 to 1997. During the new period, the economy increased at the highest speed in China. Although economy and society all made a great achievement, many problems especially the resources and environment are becoming more and more serious. At present, all the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have worked out their own RD (regional development) strategy, but the RD state discrepancy is appearing obivously for the difference of the regional condition, development process and the cognition to the RD concept. The article selects twenty-seven indicators and set up the RD indicators system. All the indicators are divided into four types including economy progress, social development, resource-environment insurance and the SD capacity. Then this paper calculates the numerical values of all the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and discussed the economy progress, social development, resource-environment insurance and the SD capacity of all the regions in China. At the basis of above discussion, the paper divides all the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions into six basic-type area (BATs) of RD State. The BTAs include: I-synthetical development state is the best; Ⅱ-synthetical development state is better; Ⅲ-synthetical development state is better medium; Ⅳ-synthetical development state is less medium; Ⅴ-synthetical development state is worse; Ⅵ-synthetical development state is the worst. In the mean well, this paper analyses the state of regional development of the six BTAs. At last this paper gives some policy suggestions: (1) Althogh the synthetical development state of the east part of China is better, there are crisis of resources and environment. Environment civilization should be stressed and tough environmental policies should be carried out as well; its economic development should be moderate, too. The keystone is the industries structure upgrading and technique diffusion being widened. The development of all the industries, which cost more energy and pollute severely, should be brought under control. (2) The middle part of China should choose the way to combine progress with preservation, implement stretch environment polices. Its economic progress should not stop and the strength of environment protection cam mpt redice. In the regions where resources are relatively rich such as Inner Mongolia, Shanxi Province, the keystones of development is the improvement of infrastructure and the investing environment, the natural resources, the keystones of development is the improvement of infrastructure and the investing environment, the natural resources is exploited in a reasonable way. Its main target is to restore economic increase and improve its progressing quantity gradually. (3) As a result of the strict of exploiting condition, a certain resources advantage in the west part of China is not so well as the image of some persons. In fact, the huge cost during the cosmically exploitation of natural resources in west part of China have proved a reality, that there is not suitable to arrange large projects of resources-processing. For the west part, the target is to reinforce the exploitation of parts of resource, improve its infrastructure, enhance people’s living standards, get rid of the threatening of poverty for the future. (4) due to the huge regional discrepancy of development state in China, we should stress the importance of maintain the harmonious relationship between population, recouces and environment in different regional scale.