Study On Regional Difference Of Small And Medium-sized Enterprises Development

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the most life-force and important economic organizations. During the times of knowledge-based economy and economic globalization, regional economic growth, labor force employment and Industrial structure upgrade are facing austere challenges. Acting as microcosmic main bodies in resource collocation and economic circulation, SMEs' development degree directly determines on regional economic efficiency and regional competitiveness. How to support SMEs development is a focal issue of SMEs research. At the same time, SMEs colonies and clusters embedded in location exert an important influence on not only whole economy but also regional economic growth. In fact, SMEs development's regional disparity is the main organization factor of regional disparity in China. And on the base, it is significant to probe in theory SMEs' function mechanism in regional economic growth, the differences of SMEs' spatial development, SMEs' strategic choice in less developed regions, which have got the very important and realistic meaning in promoting regional economy to develop steadily and harmoniously.The dissertation mainly applies correlative academic fruits of macroeconomics, microeconomics, region economics, industry economics, business enterprise of geography and institutional economics to investigate the SMEs development's regional disparity and SMEs' function in promoting regional economy to develop harmoniously with integrating quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis.The dissertation consists of nine chapters. The basic contents and main conclusions are drawn as followings:The first chapter is introduction. This part mainly discuses the background and significance, brings forward logic diagram and defines some important concepts such as SMEs and economic region.The second chapter and the third chapter are theoretic start and theoretic foundation. The second chapter animadverts on SMEs correlative theories and patulously analyzes the mutual relations between enterprises and regional development. The third chapter mainly expounds SMEs' function mechanism in regional economy. The main conclusions are that SMEs are exerting importantfunction in regional economic growth, structural update, regional innovation and strengthening competition; and at present, developing labor-dense SMEs accords with comparative advantages determined by factor endowment in China. Therefore, the SMEs are important microeconomic foundations to regional economic development.The forth, fifth and sixth chapter are main bodies. The forth chapter clearly proves that SMEs play an important role in developing regional economy via plentiful and systemic statistical data and econometric model. The fifth chapter compares SMEs' development status in eastern, central and western regions in China, which reveals SMEs' ladderlike development situation. On the basis of these analyses, geographical location, economic policy, economic globalization, market freedom etc are epurated as important influencing factors that determine SMEs development difference in different regions. The sixth chapter contrastively analyzes three SMEs development models among eastern regions. The path differences to develop SMEs root in the differences of the origin factors among the regions, which is difficult to copy some region's successful model of SMEs to another region. The advantages of regional SMEs lie in the effective integration of productive factors.The seventh and the eighth chapter are countermeasures. The seventh chapter points out that SMEs are on a sticky wicket. So how to support SMEs and promote SMEs' competitiveness are local governments' urgent affairs. The paper puts forward some feasible policies systems to accelerate SMEs' healthy development. The eighth chapter dissertates SMEs' leverage in balancing regional economic growth. Thus it is indispensable to form benign and interactive mechanism between SMEs and regional development so as to achieve interregional harmonious development.The ninth chapter summaries the main conclusions and put forward some issues to further research.