Abstract: The resource-based cities are generally faced with the double restrains of the fast increasing resource costs and the industrial rigidity, how to fully use the global value network to search for the appropriate path has prominent significance in people'livelihood. Different from previous research ideas, this paper starts from the theoretical framework of the dual dynamic value network, conducts a two-dimension classification of the resource-based cities based on the variables of market potential and city development ability, and carries out an empirical study of the influencing factors on the city development based on the dynamic value network variables. It is found that, unlike the commerce-based cities, the resource-based cities mainly adopt the indirect ways to integrate into the value network, and they adopt the form of supplier-driven development. There are structural contradictions in the elements of strong mobility. The market demand-driven force plays a key role, and the traditional resource input and the marginal influence of city capacity have a substitution effect for each other. On such basis, this paper puts forward the policy design logic of“classified positioning-value discovery-value management and innovation”for the resource-based cities. The key point of path adjustment is to construct the market economic cycle system for the resource-based cities and to carry out the classified city management.

Key words: global value chain, elasticity of factor substitution, resources, economic cycle