Revitalizing Chinese resource-based cities in landscape planning vision : taking Daqing as the testing site to revitalize the oil city by transforming oil fields

Abstract

Resource-based city has obviously features since it relies on the development of natural resources. And the development of city totally depends on the existence of resources. The resource industry takes the largest part in the industry. These kinds of city always have some economic structure features such as simple industrial structure, sole proprietorship and deeply resource dependence. However when the resource exhaustion crisis happens, how to achieve the sustainable development is an issue that many resource-based cities have to deal with through many years’ industrialization and urbanization in China, a group of resource-based cities, which rely on the large-scale mining resources. According to the theory, all the evaluation indicators’ value after standardization should be in-between the [0,1]. When the value is closer to 1, it means that the effect of the transition is better or more prominent compared with value that is close to 0. According to this standard, comparing the national overall transition index and the sub-item transition index, it can be recognized that the current overall transformation effect is not successful. There are two propose for the design strategy. According to national / international policies, economic structure, employment structure and infrastructures, the first propose transforms Daqing into the crude oil refining hub, keeping and reusing certain oil pipeline and factories. From environmental aspect, the second propose changes the oil field to the water catchment wetland and underground reservoirs. Daqing underground reservoir will help recharge aquifer as planned, regulate water resources effectively, improve the security of urban water supply, and greatly promote the condition of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Daqing.