Guangxi Regional Competitiveness Study

Regional Competition, a new concept in Regional Economics, means the resource attraction and market contention of a region among the large upper region it belongs to. Recently, regional competition has been a very important symbol to indicate whether a region has strong economic power and whether it owns economic development potential.GuangXi, a province in the southern part of China and along the South See and whose economy ranks the top class in China, has made great social and economic progress in recent years, but there are also some problems confronted by its 14 cities. So how to evaluate the overall economic develop state and find out the differences of those cities objectively and exactly, figure out the economic develop weaknesses and potential advantages of those cities to accelerate their economic development paces has been a key factor to harmonize GuangXi's regional development.The paper consists of three parts:The first part introduces the understandings and conflicts about Regional competition among the academic field, states several popular modules how to evaluate regional competition currently, provides a method to establish a indicator system to estimate regional competition and presents the new findings of studies on regional competition nowadays.The second part is the principal and module foundation of this paper. The paper takes advantage of factor analyses method to rank the integrate competition of the 14 cities in GuangXi. This part establishes the indicator system to evaluate the cities'integrate competition, states the fundamental principles of factor analyses and points out several important problems while using factor analyses method. It is a demonstrational analysis of regional competitions of those cities in GuangXi. Together with the data obtained from the National Library, network and magazines and by using the powerful mathematic software MATLAB and SPSS, this part standardizes all the data, picks up the main factors and ranks the 14 cities according to their integrate competitions of the factor analysis.The third part bases on the ranking-result of the third part, concludes the overall future development strategies and blueprints. Also, it gives advices and policies to expedite local economics and upgrade the integrate competitions of those cities. It concludes that quicken up the infrastructure construction, advance industry development, increase the city development power and promote science and culture communication and corporation are the basic principles those cities must comply with to lift their integrate competitions.Based on investigation, the paper employs economic theories and factor analysis method to evaluate the social and economic development state of those cities in GuangXi. It also does a demonstrational study on the current economics of those cities. It hopes these findings can provide research thought and strategies for administrative departments, research institutions and scholars to expedite the economic development of GuangXi.