An Empirical Research on the Ability of Sustainable Development for Coal Resource Exhausted Cities

The sustainable development of coal resource exhausted cities has become an important part of whole social development. This paper constructs the sustainable development indicator system of the coal resource exhausted cities from the four perspectives of the economy, society, resource and environment, we choose 12 coal resource exhausted prefecture-level cities for examples, analyze the level of sustainable development of the coal cities from 2006 to 2011 using principal component analysis method. Finally, it proposes the policy recommendations for sustainable development of coal resource exhausted cities.