Study on the Synergy between Nuclear Power Industry and Regional Economic Development in China

摘要

With the rapid economic and industrial development, China speeds up development of nuclear power (NP) to face the energy and the environment changes, and plans to increase in nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020. Nowadays 16 provinces, regions and municipalities in China are petitioning for the establishment of NP plants. NP industry has played a vital role of developing regional economy around it. NP industry in the mechanism of interaction with the region's other subsystems can upgrade regional economic systems from a chaotic state to an orderly or systematical one. Because NP industry can promote the regional overall economic strength and it has generated essential changes of the supply capacity of funding, the level of financial and self-development capability in the region. NP industry also can improve the region's overall economic conditions. It is not only to improve the deteriorating environment, but also to promote infrastructure construction and social undertakings. And NP industry affects the regional overall technological strength. NP industry is a high-tech industry that plays a strategic function in region's industries. It helps promote technological improvements, brings technological changes and innovations on rules, leads the development of human resources, and enhances the ability of an export-oriented economy. Finally NP industry in the region can optimize industrial restructuring. It can form the gathering of human resources, capital and information flows, effects the formation of the leading industry and promotes the development of some traditional industries.