Study On Urban Copetitiveness--Take Xi'an As An Example

With the arrival of the era of knowledge-driven economy and swift and violent development of global economic integration, cities are becoming more and more important in the development of countries and regions, and the competition among the cities is becoming fiercer. Therefore, urban competitiveness becomes the hot research subject Studied both at home and abroad.Based on the analysis on the research background of urban competition, this paper analyzes the reasons and characteristics of urban competition firstly, and re-recognizes the concept and Intension of the urban competitiveness. On the basis of reviewing the existing theories and studies, the paper summaries the rudimentary theory of urban competitiveness, describes the relative determinant factors. Then, this paper establishes a new urban competitiveness index system of estimationcombining qualitative and quantitative analysis methods and formative and positive analysis methods etc. According to the index system, this paper designs and constructs a mathematics model with multi-layer PCA methods, by which the urban competitiveness of 20 representative or typical cities in China is calculated and evaluated by the aid of software of SPSS and gets the scores of each urban and each place in the competition in the year 2001. After that, this paper centrals on Xi'an' s urban competitiveness and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of Xi'an using Boxplot method. Finally, this paper puts forward the development strategies and measures of upgrading urban competitiveness of Xi'an navigated by the guideline of "To overcome disadvantage, to enhance advantage, to limit goal, and to promote coordinately".