On Urban Competitiveness And The Role Of The Government

With the trend of economic globalization going, market mechanism plays the essential role in development of world economy and the channels of multiple communications between various countries become smoothly. The competition between countries turns to the competition between urban. Therefore, the study of urban competitiveness is being the researching focus. As the core mechanism of market economy, competition reveals itself in the vary level of area and behavior of vary economic body. As the utmost impetus of urban development, the urban competitiveness witnesses the accumulation of development of city as well as the potential of city.In China, many scholars study thoroughly into urban competitiveness, they focus their study on building urban competitiveness index and models. They rarely pay attention into the role of the government. In fact, the government plays a very important role on improving urban competitiveness. Therefore, we need to have a thorough study into the role of the government in constructing urban competitiveness. The paper elaborates the essential elements of urban competitiveness and the role of government in constructing the urban competitiveness. The dissertation concludes three parts:Ⅰ: Analysis of Urban Competitiveness. The chapter introduces the theory of competitiveness and urban competitiveness, analyzes the model of urban competitiveness as well as the essential elements. And then put forward the new viewpoint urban core competitivenessⅡ: The Government's Role on the Urban Competitiveness. On the basis of analysis of part one, the part elaborates vary influential elements of urban competitiveness and corecompetitiveness by government.Ⅲ: A Case study of Xiamen, Analyzing the steps for the Government to Increase Xiamen's Competitiveness. Taking Xiamen Economic Special Zone as a case, the chapter analyzes the current situation of urban competitiveness in Xiamen and puts forward the policy reference of enhancing the urban competitiveness in Xiamen.