From the perspective of my country and the world, the development of coal resource-based cities will inevitably lead to resource depletion. As the leading industry and economic pillar of urban development, coal resources will be fatal to the economic development of cities once the resources are exhausted. Therefore, how to realize the sustainable development(SD) of coal resource-based cities(CRBC) has become a long-term and urgent task in our country. M City is a city developed by relying on coal resources. Therefore, this paper takes M City as an example to analyze the economic development of M City from the perspectives of economic sustainability, social sustainability, resource sustainability and environmental sustainability, and uses the WEAP model to evaluate The average development efficiency of M city, and the ranking of M city's SD ability, and then put forward targeted improvement suggestions and measures to enhance the ability of SD. It is hoped that the research results of this paper can provide help and reference for the future development of CRBC.

Xuefei Pang and Yangchun Li. Sustainable Development Capability Evaluation of Coal Resource-Based Cities Based on WEAP Model. Academic Journal of Energy (2021), Vol. 2, Issue 1: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.38007/RE.2021.020101.

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