A Study On Chinese Local Governments' Performance Evaluation With Factor Analysis In Investment Attracting

Against the background of the New Public Administration Movement and gov-ernment reformations springing up all over the world, the government performance evaluation has become a hot point of the field of public administration. In China, with the constant going forward of government administrative system reformation, and con-tinues change of government's function and role, more and more attention has been gradually paid to the government performance evaluation, even put it into some prac-tices. As an important economic function of local governments, investment attracting has obviously driven local economic and social development. At present, to establish a science and reasonable performance evaluation system in investment attracting for Chi-nese local governments, to improve local governments'performance in investment attracting, would be a significant contribution to theory studies and practices. This is the just issue that this thesis tries to analyze and solve.In this thesis, firstly, on the base of expounding basic theories of the establishment of Chinese local governments'performance evaluation system in investment attracting, the author proposes local governments' responsibilities for investment attracting, linked with working practices of investment attracting and foreign investment admini-stration in China, chooses 28 evaluation indexes to build a performance evaluation in-dex system in investment attracting for Chinese local governments, which consists of 4 subsystems:investment environment, industrial guiding, investment attracted and en-terprises' operation. At the same time, the author introduces a multivariate statistical way-- factor analysis to carry out Chinese local governments' performance evaluation in investment attracting. A suitable, simple and operational performance evaluation system in investment attracting for Chinese local governments has been established.Then, the author uses the performance evaluation system established in this thesis, assisted with SPSS 19 statistical software, to build statistics and analysis models, to evaluate Yuxi 10 county governments' performance in investment attracting in 2010, and to compare evaluation results with working practice. At last, it's proved that Chi-nese local governments' performance evaluation system with factor analysis in invest-ment attracting established in this thesis can evaluate Yuxi local governments' perform-ance in investment attracting efficiently, accurately and reasonably.Finally, the author makes a conclusion:Chinese local governments' performance evaluation system with factor analysis in investment attracting established in this thesis can evaluate Chinese local governments' performance in investment attracting effi-ciently, accurately and reasonably.