The Comparative Study On Anhui’s Urban Competitiveness

With the arrival of the era of knowledge-driven economy and the swift and violentdevelopment of global economic integration, scholars from various countries are morelikely to study the problem of competition, not only the original competition betweencountries but also the competition between cities. Cities are becoming more and moreimportant in the development of countries and regions. After take into WTO, Themarketability of Chinese economy promotes the economic growth of cities in China andthe internationalization makes the China will be in invincible position in the internationalcompetition. Therefore researches have being paid on competitiveness in recent years,subject such as economics, management are involvedThis issue is regarded as a valuable work in theory.The cities in Anhui Province are function as the growth poles, Which key to the fasterdevelopment of provincial economy and society. Thus, how are the competitiveness thecities have? What is the structure of levels? How about the advantages and disadvantagesof the cities? All these problems should be considered in the process of drawing up theformulate development strategies of city. So the study on urban competitiveness has thesignificant meaning in practice.First, analysis the research background and significance of urban competition,re-recognizes the concept and intension of the urban competitiveness, reviewing the indexmodels. Second, establishes a new urban competitiveness index system of estimationcombining qualitative analysis methods and formative positive analysis methods. Thepaper carries on PCA method to the selected data of index system through the SPSSsoftware and it reaches the city’s competitiveness score and ranking. Analysis the city’scompetitiveness from six aspects including economic strength, industrial structure, the roleof government, service facilities, scientific and technological strength, the degree ofopening up. Finally, at the basis of the synthetic evaluation, combing the advantage anddisadvantage analysis of urban development of Anhui, paper propose the strategy how topromote the competitiveness of Anhui cities.