Manufacturing Industry Development in Jiaodong Peninsula Area Based on the Awareness of Conservation Culture

摘要

Well-developed manufacturing can symbolize the overall strong competitiveness and high level of modernization of a country or region. So, some local governments in China extraordinarily stress the importance of manufacturing industry development in their urban or regional development planning. In fact, manufacturing industry development must adapt to the local natural resources and environment carrying capacity; otherwise the ecological environment would be disturbed and deteriorated. This paper presents a case study of Jiaodong Peninsula Area, a programmed manufacturing base of Shandong Province in eastern coastal China, demonstrating the manufacturing industry development over the past a few years and such ecological changes and problems as water shortage, air and marine pollution and seawater intrusion. Based on the awareness of conservation culture and sustainability, the authors put forward some suggestions for manufacturing industry development in the following years including adjusting manufacturing structure to give priority to high-tech industries and strengthen modern service sectors, accelerating marine industry and marine economy improvement, promoting circular economy development, and attaching importance to coping with water scarcity and water environmental problems.