As China’s nuclear power construction speeds up, it requires a sharp demand for uranium, but the production of natural uranium is quite small. In order to meet the nuclear power construction, China needs reform the investing and financing system in uranium exploration to boost investment and to intensify the uranium exploration. This paper, based on the status of financing in global uranium exploration, discusses the plights, including missing legislation, dizzy policies, poor system and management, halfway transformedintoenterprises of uranium geological units, slow capital market of mineral exploration, and morbid nonfinancial services, and presents approaches accordingly.

A low carbon economy determines a combination of economy and ecological environment during the economic transformation in resources based cities. So far, the theories concerning low carbon economy and transformation are mature, which implies a bottleneck from a mutual of government, enterprises and society. This paper establishes an index system, applies DEMATEL and MATLAB software to draw a conclusion that the resource enterprises are the core of transformation in resourcesbased cities. A calculation on causation and hub reveals the influence of each index, which can provide a reference for economic transformation in resources based cities under a low carbon economy.

This paper applies contingent valuation method to analyze the resident’s willingness to pay for restoration and preservation of groundwater in Shijiazhuang city, Hebei Province, China. The result shows that residents’willing payment per family is 69.28 to 99.83 RMB per year. The regression analysis indicates that the family income, educational level, and concern extent on underground water environment are largely related to the willingness. Hence, to increase resident’s willingness to pay lies in increasing income, improving consciousness of water environmental protection and adopting view of “who benefits, who pays”.