Abstract:

Since the successful transformation of resourcebased cities  plays an essential role in the process of building a harmonious society and practicing the scientific development view currently,an appropriate evaluation of cities dependent on resource exploitation is needed to provide the foundation for developing effective transformation strategies.Meanwhile,it is worthy of noting that those who are suffering from comparatively serious pollution should concentrate more effort on environmental protection during the transformation process.The data envelope analysis (DEA) approach combined with entropy method is employed to reveal resourcebased cities’s transformation efficiency (RCTE) in terms of twentyone resourcebased cities at prefecturelevel during the period ranging from 2000 to 2007.The entropy method helps transform “six industrial wastes” into environmental pollution index to serve as output index in DEA model.As the result shows,the resourcebased cities in China have witnessed the uptrend of their transformation efficiency in general,which are divided geographically and ranked in descending order with the East being the highest,the West the second,and the Middle the lowest.In addition,those engaged in blackmetal manufacturing have achieved supreme transformation efficiency compared with other types of resourcebased cities