Xi'an To Build A Regional Financial Center

Financial centre is a trade place of financial institutions and financial agents, is the"agent for agent". The regional financial centre plays an important role in the process of fund accommodation, financial regulation, evading financial risks, etc. And it also has an important impact on the performance of the regional financial system and economic development. The external effects of a regional financial centre consist of two aspects: centralize financial capital and production factors, and improve the local economic development then radiate to the surrounding areas, which will lead the integrated development of surrounding areas.This thesis is based on the theories of regional economy, industrial economy, geography of finance, adopts the methods of quantities and qualitative, horizontal and vertical comparison, induction and deduction, normative analysis and empirical analysis during the research. The framework of this thesis is like theories-empirical analysis-strategy for solving the problem. The writer would like to discuss the feasibility of build up a regional financial centre in Xi'an through the research.The framework of this thesis is like: summarize the current researches on financial centre at the very beginning; the next, define and differentiate the financial centre and regional financial centre, and introduce the types, function and effects of a regional financial centre; then discuss the essential conditions for setting up a regional financial centre; and then, based on the previous discussion, comparatively analyzes two main set-up model: natural aggregation and government promotion.The fourth and fifth sections are focusing on the empirical analysis. The fourth section introduces the current financial development in Xi'an, using the SWOT method analyzes the feasibility of building up the regional financial centre in Xi'an for the northwestern areas through comparing the financial development datas of Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Xi ning, and Wulumiqi, the analysis shows that there are already essential conditions for a regional financial centre. The fifth section discusses the issue that how can Xi'an participant in building up the Western-Delta regional financial centre through comparing the data from the Western-Delta areas, Xi'an,Chengdu and Chongqing, and also prospects the bright future of the Western-Delta regional financial centre. The last section finds out that it's better to adopt the government promotion model to build up the regional centre in Xi'an through the comparison to the main cities like Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Ningxia, Xinjiang in the northwest and Chengdu, Chongqing in the southwest; at the end, the writer also proposes a strategy on building up the regional financial centre in Xi'an.