Causes of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Strategies in Resource Rich Area A Case Study in Shanxi Province
资源富集地区经济贫困的成因与对策研究--以山西省为例

This paper explored the reasons why Shanxi run into economical predicament,though it holds a great deal of coal resource.The conclusion is that resource advantage in those nations who hold a great deal of natural resource has been lost because transportation cost has been cut down after science and technology take progress.Those nations who hold a great deal of natural resource always are with abnormal industry structure,whose resource industry proportion is always too bigger than others.That can lead into some harmful results.The first one is that their manufacture sectors will comedown because labors and capital tend flowing into export business.The second one is that a great deal of economical value in these nations will vanish because their exports are ordinarily raw materials,but prices of them are usually much lower than finished products imported from developed countries.The third one is that professionals will flow out of these nations.As far as Shanxi province is concerned,coalmining require very simple technology,and most of mineworkers live depending mainly on their physical power.The fourth one is that environment will become worse than before.Mining is tearing up many scenic areas and making a mess of many rivers and wetlands.Coal-fueled power plants are polluting the air.The fifth one is that natural resources in most of nations are state-owned,and this will undoubtedly lead to serious corruption and over-mining.Therefore,for those nations with plenty of natural resource,their economic degree decline is inevitable.Some revolving ways have been discussed.The first,bring forth new ideas and convert natural resource from "dead " to "living" by the way of stock or bond.In order to accomplish this proposal,an institution system that can make stock market running efficiently is very important.The second,adjust industry structure reasonably,stimulate manufacture industry and service industry.In Shanxi province,the government should cut down coal industry proportion in economic gross and improve manufacture industry proportion,and push tourism forward rapidly so as to get rid of abnormal industry structure and drive economic development.