Kaifeng City Competitiveness

Globalization and rapid development of information technology have opened up a new era of competition. Cities are competing platforms; the competition is also the main characters, as more and more cities to join the competition in the torrent of urban pattern of turbulent, changing many-fold. As the cities, especially the role of urban centers of radiation, making the city more closely linked with the region, the competition between cities is more a competition between urban areas. Central China's Henan Province is located in the central city group, formed by the nine cities, although the total land area of Henan province 35.1% of the total area, but its GDP accounted for 55.3% of the province, near the province's per capita GDP higher than 37 percentage points. City Competitiveness is an important part of fostering industrial clusters, while the industry group strategy to rely on urban areas. Therefore, to enhance competitiveness, the need for regional coordination of economic development, accelerate the construction of the city group, and actively build urban economic circle, play concentration and diffusion effects, by fostering urban economic circle and expanding urban and regional organic links, so as to drive the region coordinated development.Kaifeng, Central China city group as an important component, located in east-central Henan Province, is located in the birthplace of Chinese history, Chinese culture and the cradle of the south bank of the Yellow River, is a long history and culture of the ancient city. In recent years, its rapid economic and social undertakings, tourism, business and so has made remarkable achievements. However, backward infrastructure, competitive and comprehensive breakdown of the capital, openness, science and technology competitiveness is not strong. In the implementation of central China's Henan Province on the central plains of Kaifeng City Group building strategies to upgrade to an unprecedented high level strategy, make Kaifeng also ushered in unprecedented opportunities. To seize this opportunity to promote the coordination of social and economic development, promote social harmony in the region, making research on the competitiveness of Kaifeng city with a far-reaching and of great practical significance. Enhance the competitiveness of the city of Kaifeng was to play to its advantages, to find deficiencies, so as to enhance the competitiveness of Kaifeng city, making for better integration into the Central Plains of Kaifeng City Group's development strategy to actively participate in global competition among cities go.This paper reviews the competitiveness of domestic and foreign research results of city, define the concept of urban competitiveness, content and features for the study of the competitiveness of Kaifeng city basis.Second, the actual situation from Kaifeng, combined with the theory of city competitiveness, build Kaifeng city competitiveness evaluation index system and the theoretical model, using SPSS17.0 software on the city of Kaifeng and the Central Plains group sample cities quantitative analysis to arrive at cities on the common factor scores were compared to identify groups in the city of Kaifeng in Central China's strengths and weaknesses.Finally, the data obtained results, the city of Kaifeng and the Central Plains to strengthen cooperation between groups in other cities, mutual benefit and development model, to improve the competitiveness of Kaifeng city purposes.