A Study On The Competitiveness Of Chinese Developing Zone: Appraise And Promote

This paper tries to set up the basic index and expanding index of the competitiveness of developing zones. Firstly we analyses the background of the history and economic development of developing zone after China joins in the WTO, basing on both the relevant theoretical of developing zone or the competitiveness and the influence between investment environment and investor. Then we take SUTHOU industrial park (SIP) as an example to analyses and study on how to promote competitiveness of developing zone.In the first part the author introduce the soft & hard environment of investment, management system, industry development of developing zone of China at present, analyzing the opportunity and challenge of developing zone after the accession to the WTO, acquiring the mean of study on the competitiveness of developing zone clearly.In the second part, mostly retrospect the classical & new Competition theory, the theory of Competition advantage of Michael E.Porter and J.A.Schumpeter separately and make more detailed introduction to domestic and international area and urban competitiveness theory. In this part we also assess current situation of research about the competitiveness theory in the developing zone conscientiously and lay the theoretical foundation of setting up index system of competitiveness of developing zone on the basis of relevant theory in the developing zone.The third part is the most important part in this paper. We set up developing zone basic index of competitiveness focusing on three-index system of "market enter obstacle", "expect investment return" and " serveefficiency" after expounding the basic train of thought and design principal. To easy to compare, we publish the four expanding index of " comprehensive cost"," carrier upgrading"," sustainable ability" and "open degree" on the basis of basic index, comparing and assessing the competitiveness state of developing zone.Fourth part is about author's study combining with his work on the real example analysis and countermeasure of Competitiveness of SIP. Facing the challenge of SIP joining in WTO and comparing SIP to other developing zone, author analyses subject matter that SIP faces and give some advice on promoting competitiveness of SIP.The author hopes that this paper will offer essential help to scholar studying on the theory of developing zone and make the developing zone serve the open policy of our country better.