Case study on the redevelopment of industrial wasteland in resource-exhausted mining area

In the resource-exhausted mining regions, because of the finish of mine production and the phenomenon of idle land resources, the number of industrial wastelands has been increasingly growing. In this paper the causes, characteristics and the developing laws with time and spaces of the industrial wastelands were analyzed in the case of Jiawang mining region firstly. Secondly, the problems and the impact factors of the further development of industrial wasteland were discussed; meanwhile the concept of “innovative integration” of the resource was introduced in order to emphasize the importance of redevelopment of industrial wasteland, which can be regarded as the new resource of the mining region. Finally the strategies and approaches of the redevelopment and reutilization of the mining industrial wastelands were discussed in the view of land development, industrial restructuring, and integration of spatial distribution, ecological environment restoration, protection of industrial heritage in the mining area.