Developing environment of urban economy is the total of external conditions which are around urban economic activities and enough to influence them, including natural conditions, economic conditions and social conditions. The economic developing environment of a city often plays the key decisive action to the progress and prosperity of this city, so since 1990s, the research of the developing environment of urban economy has been paid close attention to by the countries all over the world. As two western central cities in China, Chengdu and Chongqing have both got the fast development in such aspects as economy, society in recent years, but many questions have appeared. The main question is that the phenomenon of " A Tale of Two Cities " is becoming more serious and this has already become the maximum baffle that the two places further cooperate. Though the governments of the two places have already realized the ponderance of the problem and done one's utmost to promote both the folk cooperation and the official side, there is no clear understanding and plan in which field will be done further for the two places. Just under this background, this text regards relatively studying of urban economy development environment of Chengdu and Chongqing as the breakthrough point and analyses in depth into the comparative advantage and comparative inferior position of urban economy development environment between the two places by the method to combine qualitative analyse together with quantitative analyse, thus this text provides the realistic foundation for the two places that seek common ground while reserving difference and cooperate because of being " same " and fill each other because of being " different ". On this basis, this text has further analysed the terms of cooperation between the two places, reviewed the existing cooperation between the two places at the same time, summarized the essential feature and existing problem of existing cooperation and analysed the reason why the cooperation has failed, thus it proposes the relevant suggestions on the further cooperative foundation of the two places. So, the paper is consisted of five parts, the first part is introduction, which mainly discusses the relevant backgrounds of the issue, research purposes, research contents , research approach and the main innovation point; the second part discusses the basic conceptions, category and basic theoretical questions, namely is the relevant theory summaries of the developing environment of urban economy and regional cooperation as well as dividing the work; the third part carries through some qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis in the urban economy development environment of Chengdu and Chongqing, including comparing the natural conditions and the social terms of the two places by the method of qualitative analyse, comparing the economic terms by the method of a large amount of table analyses and the factor model analyse, thus it draws a conclusion on the comparative advantages and comparative inferior positions of the urban economy development environment of the two places; the fourth part proposes relevant suggestions on the further cooperation between Chengdu and Chongqing, in this chapter it combines the comparative advantages and comparative inferior positions of urban economy development environment of the two places together with the existing cooperative foundation, proposes that in the future the two places need cooperating further in such respects as the infrastructure, manufacturing industry and new high-tech industry, the tertiary industry and professional resource intercommunication, etc.; the fifth part summarizes the study result of the paper and proposes some policy recommendations on the basic of the conclusions. |