Opportunities and problems of sustainable development of mining cities in China

The mining, city dependent on the mining development is an important component part of the municipal system in China. Currently, there are already more than 300 mining towns and cities in China. The production and development of mineral resources are the leading industry of mining cities, but owing. to the exhaustibility of mineral resources, in the mining cities it is likely to cause a crisis of city decline and exhaustion of mineral resources Thus,. to-avoid the risk and overcome the crisis are not only the internal demand on the development of mining cities, but also an inevitable choice for implementing the sustainable developing strategy in China. And in this paper, a review of the relative research results concerning four respects of the sustainable developing thoughts, the reason. of the constructive crisis, problems and state as well as classification and concept of mining cities is carried out