Abstract: It is a worldwide problem for the resource-based cities to develop successive industries. As for China, theres no experience to take example bythe resource-exhausted cities to choose the way of developing successive industries. The development of successive industries is restricted by a variety of factors. The local resources, economic status, level of technology and market potential of products should be synthetically considered, so that the development of successive industries can lead to the economic prosperity of the entire city. According to the theories of successive industrial development, the article is based on the investigation of the present situation of the successive industrial development in Gejiu city. It probes into the countermeasureof successive industrial development in-depth and provides reference for developing successive industries in other resource-based cities.