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On the new way of solving the problem of employment in resources exhausted cities:a survey from Fuxin City

Zhao Wen-xiang

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Resource-exhausted cities in China face serious employment problems. Fuxin City in Liaoning Province, designated as the first experimental city for economic transformation by the State Council, employs urban agriculture to allocate unemployed miners. This paper summarizes this method of solving unemployment problems and explains its implications for other similar cities.