Studies On The Opening-up Of Changsha

The practice of over 20 years' opening-up of China gives us an idea that opening-up is necessary to countries or areas which want to develop their economy rapidly or to promote their integrate competition or to improve people's standard of living. As a provincial capital city of midland China, Changsha must face the currency and get hold of the opportunity of domestic and overseas opening-up in the 21st century.Studying on opening-up is essential to expand the opening-up of Changsha. In this article, we firstly analyze its main function to economy development, then we interpret the word of opening-up, so as to find some standards of evaluating the level of opening-up. Many indexes are analyzed, but only six of them are selected, which are the ratio of commodity import, the ratio of commodity export, the ratio of service trade, the ratio of using inner capital, the ratio of using foreign capital and the policy environment. We work out a set of index system of evaluating the opening-up by the weighted mean of the six indexes, and each weighing of the index is determined by using the method of Analytic Hierarchy Process. In order to validate the applicability and veracity of the system, we calculate the opening-up level of some important cities in China. The result is consistent to the report of World Bank and National Information Center about "Government fathering, investment environment and harmonious society——upgrading the competition of 120 cities in China". This proved that the index system is scientific and rational in some degrees.The purpose of city opening-up is to promote economy increasing and the urban development. We apply the result to analyze Changsha's characteristics and problems, so as to bring forward some countermeasures for and advice to Changsha's forward opening-up, and even to give some advice for Middle Part Growing-up.