Exploring development pathways for mining rural areas in the context of urban-rural integration: A case study in Shanxi Province, China.

ABSTRACT: In the process of urban-rural integration, rural depression poses a severe challenge to urban-rural coordination and regional sustainable development. Exploring development pathways for resource-dependent rural areas is an important measure to implement rural revitalization. Mining industry, shows beneficial in boosting the economies whiles brings ecological, physical/psychological and social problems to local community members. Therefore, efforts should be made to rural sustainable development in mining resource- dependent regions. Taking the traditional mining-industry Shanxi Province in North China as research case, this paper seeks to investigate the crucial factors influencing rural transformation development (RTD) of mining regions and explore development pathways for resource-depend

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11893134 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature