Under The New Situation, The Discussion Of Urban Competitiveness

In recent years, the topics about urban competitive edge emerge in endlessly. The dissertation, which is supposed to hold some novelty, deals with this theme. The world economies are developing and forming a whole one, and multinational companies are getting their magnitude increasingly which makes them surpass the country in the aspect of power one day. Market mechanism dominates the course of world economies' evolution, which provides economic elements scarce opportunity to realize their optimal value all over the world, in addition to intercommunication among countries becoming increasingly and smoothly. During this course, multinational companies lubricate all kinds of economic stuff flow between countries. Another focus of economic growth just is knowledge economy that remodels the old pattern, makes the whole society change to the core and people have new ideas about the space-time.The city is concentrated of people and economic activity, which brings agglomeration economies and diseconomies. So, the cluster effect is the essential one of the urban spatial effects. All of changes as discussed above result in the transformation of economic elements' communicating mode. This influences the urban development profoundly. The model of cities' competition will be remodeled thoroughly for the scope of where the stuff could be has been extended greatly. Therefore, it is of significance to put forward the concept of urban competitive edge.Competition is inherent on market economy, which is embodied by the activities of the rational. Urban competitive edge, which is the cumulated result and the potential of its growth, is the most important force to cities' development.The skeletal framework in this dissertation just as follows,The first part deals with some knowledge about the city, some factors influencing the urban growth, and the last studies on the city in our country and abroad.The second one is involved in putting forward the conception of urban competitive edge, and establishing its model.The third one just relates to theoretic explanation about urban competitive edge.The fourth one contains forming an appraisal system of urban competitive edge on the base of the reference to others' researches.The fifth one mainly deals with two strategies that promote the urban competitive edge according to some influential factors of it.The last one is consisted of a case-study, which is the application of this theory.The case analyzes the urban competitive environment of Arming, a city in Yunnan province t based on the framework of urban competitive edge, which is another point of view for that.