Research on Sustainable Development Evaluation and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Resource-based Cities in Heilongjiang Province

As a representative of the old industrial base in Northeast China, the resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province provided a large number of materials, funds and talents for the final completion of industrialization. However, with the continuous consumption of resources, resource-based cities urgently need transformation and sustainable development. This paper constructs a sustainable development evaluation system based on the factor analysis method. Then takes 11 resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province as the research object. The spatial autocorrelation, standard deviation ellipse and related methods are applied to analyze resource-based cities' development characteristics from 2005-2018. Finally, the spatial distribution characteristics of cities are obtained. The results are as follows: (1) There are two kinds of resource-based cities: five mature-type and six declining-type respectively. (2) Yichun, Hegang, Qitaihe and Shuangyashan cities are highly dependent on resource reserves and it is difficult to get rid of resource exhaustion. (3) Resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province are concentrated in the northeast, and the center of sustainable development gradually migrates to the southwest.