Analysis on Resource Productivity in Binhai New Area of Tianjin City

Tianjin Binhai New Area plays an important role to boost the economy of Tianjin and North China according to the long-term development planning of China. Since a large amount of resources will be needed, the environment pollution will be much more concerned. Improving resource productivity is of great importance to conserve the resource and solve the pollution problems. The study explores the current state of the resource productivity of Binhai New Area and compares it with that of Tianjin, which aims to help improve the productivity of Binhai New Area. We conclude that from 2000 to 2007 Binhai New Area has improved the productivity of most of the resources. The resource productivity of DMI has increased by 78 percent, while the increasing rate for energy, land, labor, mineral, water, and biomass is 49 percent, 313 percent, 202 percent, 27 percent, 105 percent and 37 percent respectively. The productivity of each type of resource of Binhai New Area except biomass is higher than that of Tianjin. And the gap of the productivity of mineral between Binhai New Area and Tianjin is narrow. Thus, we suggest that Binhai New Area should pay more attention to increasing the productivity of energy, mineral, water and biomass in the future. A proper improvement goal and the supports from the government and private sector will be helpful to improve the resource productivity of Binhai New Area.