西部9省会大城市综合竞争力的分析与研究

城市竞争力已成为当代关注和研究的焦点。在西部大开发战略背景下,探讨西部9省会大城市的综合竞争力尤为重要。本文选取42个指标作为西部地区9省会大城市综合竞争力评价的原始指标,运用因子多变量统计分析法对42个指标数据进行分析处理,得到5个公因子。在此基础上计算出西部地区9省会大城市综合竞争力的综合得分,进行分析和排序,最后对9个大城市进行简单地概括评价。

ANALYSIS AND STUDY ON COMPREHENSIVECOMPETITIVE POWER OF WESTERN 9 CITIES

Since World Economy Forum (WEF) publish The Global Competitiveness Report in 1979, city competitiveness has become the focus of attention and studying at present. Today WEF and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) act as two main organization studying competitiveness; they mainly study competitiveness among countries. Every year WEF publish The Global Competitiveness Report, whereas, IMD also publish The World Competitiveness Yearbook.A city is the growth pole of regional economy. So studying city competitiveness, especially competitiveness of big cities is very significant in knowledge economy times. Western economy of China grows very slowly, so under background of West Development, it is more important to discuss competitive power of western 9 cities. By studying on comprehensive competitiveness of western big cities, the paper hopes to know well whole development level and economic competitiveness of west big cities. This is very important to understand own power, find out their backwardness and formulate development stratagem to west big cities. The paper is divided into 5 parts. In the third part, study method and index system are put forward, according to facts, the paper chose factor analysis as basic method, chose 42 indexes to build up index system of west big cities. The fourth part is analysis and rank of comprehensive competitiveness. We got 5 main factors after 42 indexes which are primitive variable have been analyzed. At the basis of the former analysis, each of western 9 big cities has its comprehensive score of comprehensive competitiveness; we simply analyze and rank them. Then western 9 big cities are appraised by their characteristics and potential. By this study, we not only analyze and rank western 9 big cities, but also provide theory and method with changing city comprehensive competitiveness.The Author thinks that most fortune in a country mainly concentrates on cities,facing to drastic regional and international competition, it is very economic and realistic to study on how to improve city comprehensive competitiveness.