City’s gross assets are an important eco-economic issue for city development, and the integrated research on relationships between gross assets and city development greatly helps to understand diversified and complicated mechanisms of their interactions and promote sustainable management of city’s wealth. In this paper, the authors explore the definition of gross assets and its connotation of value, and discuss the constitution of gross assets; taking Beijing as an example, the authors further analyze the dynamics of gross assets and its relations to urban development in Beijing city.
From the results of research, the dynamics of gross assets in Beijing city have the following characteristics: (1) the size of gross assets is large and increases as the city develops, so does the density of gross assets; (2) the amount of throughput is great and has high dependence on the outside of the city, its net exchange coefficient rises as the city develops; (3) the constitution of gross assets becomes polarized as the city develops, asset browning increases and greening decreases; (4) although the regeneration rate of ecological assets in gross assets rose slightly, self-supporting rate and net exchange rate of ecological assets decreased, and the size of ecological assets went down slowly; (6) In gross assets, the coefficients of output and revenue of natural asset increases as the city develops.