Abstract
The traditional industrial parks (TIPs) in China has been rapidly developed in the past 30 years, which have contributed to stable
and continuing GDP growth, but also caused severe pollution. In order to solve the conflict between local economic
development, environmental pollution and resource shortage, the TIPs in China should be transformed to eco-industrial parks
(EIPs). However, the eco-transformation of China's TIPs is still at an exploratory stage. So, the paper studies eco-transformation
strategies from TIPs to EIPs, not only involves how TIPs would carry out replanning and management, rebuild internal industrial
features, but also involves how to maximize inter-company resource sharing and eco-transform individual enterprises. First, the
key strategies applied by TIPs during eco-transformation are reviewed from two cases of Kalundborg EIP in Denmark and
Guigang EIP in China. Then we use the theoretical model of System Engineering corresponding study three important aspects of
optimized eco-transformation strategies for TIPs. The first aspect is that enterprise community reconstruction and keystone
species selection focus on stages of planning, design and construction. Namely the restructure and planning of TIP enterprises
would be around keystone species selection. The second aspect is that eco-industrial chain construction focuses on stages of
integration and operation. The third aspect is that innovation of key eco-industrial technologies focuses on the stage of
adjustment. Finally, the overall arrangement of these strategies in a system of policies is analyzed so as to better achieve the ecotransformation
of China's TIPs.