This paper uses modified ecological footprint model to study farmland ecological deficit and excess in Xinjiang, estimates its ecological footprint with biological resource footprint and carbon footprint incorporated, the result has a difference with farmland ecological carrying capacity which is farmland ecological excess/deficit. This paper applies ecological servicing non-market value model, consistent with paying capability, and employs Type-S growth curve modified coefficient to quantify 2010 to 2020 farmland ecological compensation of Xinjiang ‘s 14 prefectures. Influenced by production and carbon sequestration capability, ecological footprint is higher in Tulufan, Kashi and Yili ‘s farmlands, the latter two with a larger supply capacity have a stronger ecological carrying capacity. Ecological deficit or excess exists in the southern and northern Xinjiang, where has a severer ecological deficit, most in Tulufan. Non-market values of unit farmland ecological servicing generally have a consistent trend in 2010 to 2020, declining over years. Impacted by excess/deficit area and non-market values of unit farmland ecological servicing, farmland ecological compensation has a falling-then-rising trend, 2813 million CNY needed to be paid to Tulufan in 2020, and 1303 million CNY to Yili. This paper presents suggestions on developing green agriculture to decrease carbon footprint, properly estimating farmland ecological compensation standard, and establishing a more appropriate farmland ecological compensation mechanism in terms of farmland ecological compensation standards, ways, fund sources and receivers ‘ priorities.
The Northern Slope Economic Belt of Tianshan Mountains as the most developed region of Xinjiang bears important mission to change the economic development mode and structural adjustment. Its development plan has been risen to a national strategy. By means of three-axis graph method, this paper studies the industrial restructuring and the regional differences in the northern slope economic belt of Xinjiang Tianshan Mountains, conducts a comparative analysis through SSM model to analyze its industrial structure, and concludes that the industrial structure evolutes to the right-handed mode. Urumqi is in the advanced stage of industrial structure's development, but the tertiary industrial competitiveness tends to decline. Wusu and Changji have a good base in their first industry with strong competitiveness and increasing potential in their second industry, such as Kuitun and Fukang. This paper proposes that the industrial structure adjustment shall follow its rules and be combined with the urban resources loading capacity and industrial competiveness advantages.
According to the Mineral resources law, the use fee of mining rights must be charged from the owners. However, scholars can not reach an agreement on the rationality. This paper, based on the nature of use fee of mining rights, discusses the system, presents that the mining rights are usufructuary rights derived from the lands, rather than usufructuary rights derived from the right of mineral resources ownership. Therefore, mining rights use fee covers the land and mineral resources. According to the different ownership, the land ownership can be attained from the land owners, the fee can be determined through the land owners or land users by negotiation. The related rights and relationships should be handled properly.
The urban tourism plays a key role in the modern tourism so that the regional tourism competition lies in the urban competition. This paper establishes an index system to evaluate the urban tourism competition, applies factor analysis in software SPSS13.0 to evaluate the tourism competition of five capitals in northwest China, divides them into four categories and presents some approaches to the tourism competition in the five capitals.
Inner Mongolia Municipality is abundant in mineral resources such as coal, REE, non-ferrous metals, precious metals, and non-metallic minerals including chemical, metallurgical and construction materials, which provide a vita base for economic development. This paper analyzes the supply and demands of major metallic minerals and concludes that lead and zinc have a sufficient supply but need further management to avoid a surplus, that rich iron, chrome, manganese and copper have an insufficiency in supply, needing geological exploration, that gold, which was an advantageous resource, is facing a low resource guarantee level due to a rapid mining and necessitates some new discoveries, and that some abundant metals like silver and niobium need to be improved in development and utilization regardless of their high guarantee level.
