Research On The Selecting Of Regional Leading Industry

Leading industry is of great importance in the development of the economy. The importance of selecting leading industry correctly is mainly due to its positive roles: the important measure taken to optimize the industrial structure; the effective way made to enhance the competitiveness of industries.Along with the closer relation between our country and the world economy, the global financial crisis brought many negative influences to our country economic development, and promoting industrial structure upgrading is the important measure for our country to deal with the financial crisis; at the same time, as the regional growth extremely, the leading industry can promote the regional economies growth, and alleviate the negative influences that the global financial crisis brought. At the same time, scientific development concept set a higher request regarding industrial development's speed and quality. Therefore, under the recent development situation, selecting leading industrials that conforms to the requests of scientific development concept becomes one of the most important questions that should be studied.Based on the above cognition and systematic summarization of selecting leading industrials' research background and evolution, this paper analyzes the concept and essential characteristics of regional leading industry, points out the criterions that selecting leading industry should follow, constructs the theoretical model, and takes Xianyang city as a case to conduct an empirical study.Through the research, the author draws following conclusions: the criterions that the selecting leading industry should follow are market potential criterion, industrial relationship criterion, technology advancement criterion, sustainable development criterion and so on; constructing a index system including 14 norms (demand income elasticity, vale growth rate, industrial influence coefficient, industrial sensitivity coefficient, new products value proportion, location quotient and so on) as the quantitative analysis of selecting leading industrials; at the same time, qualitative investigation based on the regional development condition and stage is essential. Through the empirical study, the author consides that: in present stage, the leading industrials of Xianyang are food manufacturing industry, energy and chemistry industry, equipment manufacturing industry, electronic and information industry.