Petroleum-based cities, whose economy and development mainly rely on natural petroleum exploitation, are facing severe economic, social, and environmental problems at present (Tan et al., 2016). The industrial structure of these cities is a relatively traditional industrial pattern, which is a petroleum-based and petroleum-intensive economy with comparatively low technology and efficiency levels (Dong et al., 2007). These cities have undertaken enormous stress of slow development in the rapidly developing society for which their situations must be changed.
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