Based On The Perspective Of Knowledge City Urban Cultural Soft Power Research

The soft power of city culture is the main component of the city’s comprehensive competitiveness, providing spiritual drive and intelligence support for its promotion. Meanwhile urban competitiveness is the key embodiment of national strength, so the soft power of city culture plays an important role in the growth of national comprehensive strengths. The soft power of city culture is to enhance cultural competitiveness to promote urban sustained economic development and social progress, in which the cultural innovation serves as the core, the culture industry as the carrier, and the high-quality art goods or culture brands as the means. Generally speaking, the advancement of the soft power of city culture will benefit in enhancing urban comprehensive competitiveness and national independent innovation ability, accelerating the transformation of economic development pattern, then realizing rapid and sound economic development. Thus, it becomes an important issue for governments and educational circles that how to construct the path of ascension in soft power of city culture, to advance the soft power of city culture, to enhance city comprehensive competitiveness with inheritance, creativity, enforceable power, and cohesive force that reflect in material culture, institutional culture, and mental culture, as well as the radiant power and influence that generate in foreign exchanges, to realize urban sustainable development of social economy.With the rise of knowledge economy and knowledge management, knowledge city has become a new idea about urban sustainable development in the21st century, which induced western academic to reflect the problems in the course of urbanization and then developed into a urban development theory. At present, China is on the "fast "lane of urbanization, where numerous urban diseases frequently occur in the process of urbanization strategy, such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, noise pollution, ecological damage and so on. These urban diseases have risen in the process of Western urbanization, and western countries are paying for the stupid behavior, such as excessive dependence on economic development and ignoring economic growth. Many prototype cities (mainly industrial cities), such as Manchester, Dublin, Delft, Detroit and so on, have suffered the pain on transformation. However, they succeeded in the transformation from traditional industrial city to knowledge city, making city full of vitality. In order to properly solve the problems rising in the process of urbanization, to avoid repeating the mistakes made in western developed countries, to promote the soft power of city culture and urban comprehensive competitiveness of China, to keep urban sustainable development, this paper explores a new path to promote the soft power of city culture according to the characteristics of Chongqing from the perspective of knowledge city theory. With the soft power of city culture as the research object and the most young and potential municipality of Chongqing as an example, it uses literature analysis method, experience learning comparative analysis, research methods and so on. Through clarifying the connotation, extension and components of soft power, culture soft power, urban culture soft power and knowledge city, relying on Chongqing’s advantages in constructing culture soft power, summarizing the model of London, it comparatively analyzes urban construction between Chongqing and London, finding out the insufficiency existing in Chongqing’s process of building culture soft power, then further exploring a new path of strengthening urban culture soft power complying with Chongqing’s characteristics.