Study On The Overall Competitiveness Of The County Economy In Hebei Province

China's economy has started to enter the middle stage of industrialization, it's a important way to integrate the development of urban and rural areas by vigorously develop county economy, which holds the overwhelming majority of rural population and has certain foundations on both industrialization and urbanization. Hebei has listed county economy into two major struts to propel its economy, and formulated favorite feasible policies. Meanwhile, the overall competitiveness of county economy is still weak, thus allows a very big promotion space. Therefore, precise economic competitiveness appraisal would be advisable to promote competitiveness of the provincial economy.The county economic competitiveness refers to the ability that based on substantial wealth and soft circumstances, a county can maintain continuous economic growth by overcoming disadvantages and attracting more economic resources than its competitors under the same conditions. Evaluations of overall county economic competitiveness is a synthesis comparative analysis through establish scientific indicator system and choose suitable methods. According to the principles of indicator system building, considering the development of Hebei county economy, and referring similar researches, this paper designs an overall economic competitiveness indicator system for the counties in Hebei. It consists of 33 indicators in 6 categories, which can reveal the overall economic competitiveness of different counties through covering all the important fields including economic, social, scientific and cultural development.Based on Principal Component Analysis, overall competitiveness analysis demonstrate that to improve county economic competitiveness, labor productivity, GDP per capita, balance of deposits and public revenue must be enhanced. Meanwhile, less public servants and more efficient public administration are necessary. In views of the branch competitiveness, household and public consume, natural and geographic superiority are all major factors. Despite the strong relevance between county economy and agriculture, countryside and farmers, agricultural condition is the poorest branch. Analysis of the top and last 30 counties indicate that the overall economic competitiveness show most directly from the high efficiency of productivity; contribution from agricultural competitiveness is relatively poor to developed countries, while it's the most important factor to the economic development and competitive enhancement of the backward counties. In views of the natural and administrative regions, large differences amongst counties, massive agglomeration of developed counties, poor sustainable development ability, excessive agricultural contribution to backward counties, and the coexistence of economic diffusion and adsorption effect from Beijing and Tianjin constitute the main characteristics of Hebei county economy.Principles to promote competitiveness include communal, regionalizing and sustainable development, and consolidated foundation status of agriculture. Countermeasures include forming new economic growth poles by fully display superiorities like resources, so as to propel coordinated development of regional economies; constructing modern agricultural system through provide more supports to agricultural producing and processing industry; advancing integrated development with Beijing and Tianjin through cultivating the superiorities in land and labor resources; optimizing the industrial structure of counties based on natural resources cultivation to maintain sustainable development; strengthens the competitiveness in Strong Coastal Province construction through the impetus of harbors and coordination of coastal and inland counties.Integrated the theories of scientific development and harmonious society, this paper made a comprehensive, systematic analysis and evaluation on county economy in Hebei Province, thus break the traditional constraint of pure economic thinking and realized a evaluation in both theory and method; based on the comprehensive analysis of the natural resources and geographic locations, Hebei counties were divided into 12 natural areas, thus break the traditional constraint of evaluate counties by administrative divisions and realized an innovation on the perspective of research; put forward the ideology of regionalization for economic development of Hebei counties, which is of great theoretical significance to achieving the coordination of urban and rural development and the promotion of harmonious development of different regions.