A STUDY ON RATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE ARID AREA OF NORTHERN CHINA
我国北方干早地区资源合理化开发的探讨

The northern arid land of China is economically backward and ecologically fragile. However, it has a rich storage of variety of resource such as energy, mineral grassland and arable land. This paper, based on the analysis of resources advantages and economic disadvantages of the area, proposes the resources-economy coordinating policy of local development. Eight su-bregions are divided according to resources-economic combining characters, and counter-measures pointed out to accelerate economic development, induding railway network cons ruc-tion, opening policy, money collection, and so on-