Abstract

As a process of human economic activities expanding in regional scope and in depth, regional development has an intense influence on regional ecological environment. Presently, environmental pollution and ecological damage has been a vital factor damaging human health and restricting economic and social development. Under the background of this, China's central government put forward the scientific development concept, harmonious society theory and the concept of ecological civilization which made clear the direction of sustainable regional development. The concept of sustainable regional development emphasized the sustainability of the process human economic activities expanding in regional scope and in depth and the consistency of the process with ecological environment. Sustainable regional development theory built regional development on the foundation of sustainable development and more forward-looking, and provided a new theoretical foundation for ecological development and urbanization.

Human economic activities are decided by the dynamic of subjects. Considering the actual state of China's regional development, the research analyzed the dynamic of sustainable regional development and tried to establish mechanism to increase the dynamic under the conditions of socialist market economy system. Under the conditions of fixed technology, different institutional arrangements lead to different environmental results. Environmental characteristics and market situation determined the government should play a leading role in environmental protection work. Based on regional development phases, the research proposed three models of regional development which were resource-oriented development model, in dustry-oriented development model and high-tech-oriented development model, and systematically expounded the meaning, features and approaches of the three development models.

On the basis of the above theoretical analysis, an empirical analysis of China's regional development was made. Firstly, the research used the indicator of environmental technical efficiency to evaluate the coordination of the provincial economic development and environmental. Secondly, combined with regional cases including highly urbanized Yangtze River Delta region, Northwest region being in the resources development stage and Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve, the research proposed specific regional development strategy. Lastly, the research described the current situation of the sustainable development power, mechanism and model for the Northeast region, and put forward countermeasures.

Based on the above theoretical and empirical research results, the research gave some advice on how to choice China's sustainable regional development strategy in the new century. The strategy included industrial clusters development strategy, regional innovation development strategy, urban and rural co-ordination development strategy and ecological development strategy, which provided new ideas for the coordination and sustainable development of regional economy, society and ecological environment.