New Measurement And Feature Analysis On Regional Economic Opening Level’s Index Of China

The degree of regional economic openness mainly refers to the degree of foreign economic activities in a region.However,with the development of society,the study of regional economic openness needs to be gradually transformed from international opening to the combination of domestic opening and international opening.Under the reform and opening,how to correctly understand the opening of the regional economy and how to estimate the degree of openness of the regional economy is crucial to the effective formulation of regional opening development policies.This paper firstly introduces the regional economic opening evaluation index system and the marketization index system studied at present,combines the relationship between domestic opening and international opening to conduct a review obout the existing research achievements.Secondly,based on shortcomings of the traditional index system,the essay innovatively put forward the combination of marketization and international opening to establish a new comprehensive regional economic openness indicator system that integrates domestic opening and international opening.The regional economic openness index system established in this paper includes 1 target layer,5 criteria layers and 24 indicator layers,covering inter-regional openness,international openness,relationship between government and marketing,marketing development degree,basic conditions and business environment.Next,we use the arithmetic average method instead of the principal component analysis to calculates the data from 2001 to 2017 in 30 provinces and cities in China,make sure that the scores are comparable across years.After analyzing the characteristics of the data,this paper compares the traditional economic openness score with the score under the new indicator system.Through the characteristics and comparative analysis,the author mainly draws the following conclusions: It is not just the international environment that affects the regional economic openness,for China,but also the domestic environment,especially the relationship between the government and the market and the flow of factors are indispensive;the differences of economic openness between the eastern and western parts of China are large,especially in levels of inter-regional openness,international openness and market development;The opening up of the region and the opening of the interior are still not coordinated enough.The domestic market has not yet fully formed a high-level unified market.