A Study Of The Muslim Entrepreneurs In Linxia Area

Linxia area is called"Hezhou" in ancient times and it was a courier station of the Silk Road in Han and Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the reform and openness, it was famous in China because of the "Hezhou model". In 1980s,Fei Xiaotong visited Linxia for three times and was deeply impressed by the prosperous commerce in this area and put forward to a development strategy,namely Wenzhou in east and Hezhou in west in order to realize the development road of promoting the industry through commerce. He wanted Muslim Entrepreneurs to reproduce the Silk Road. But thirty years past, Wenzhou has realized industrialization and the businessmen have changed into Entrepreneurs, which make Wenzhou is famous for its economic development model. At the meantime, Hezhou made very little progress. There are many reasons, such as its geography, the policy, the social culture, the entrepreneurs themselves and so on.As everyone knows, the entrepreneurs are prime mover and the soul in market economy in the more mature market economy system, some conditions are provided for entrepreneurs, which can even be ignored, also do not be paid attention to. On the contrary, it should pay more attention to the development of entrepreneurs, especially in underdeveloped areas. The industrialization is faced with significant institutional constraints. Under such restrictions, the industrialization can only rely on the "endogenous" carrier entrepreneurs. Thus, it depends on the entrepreneurs with identification ability in market opportunity, innovative spirits, the courage to take risks and some other qualities to complete the market division and transaction. Therefore, this paper researches in private entrepreneur in order to make it clear. The study is based on the empirical research and makes both quantitative and qualitative analysis, such as individual interviews, questionnaire survey, data analysis, ethnology, sociology, economics methods and so on.This paper is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter is the introduction, which mainly explains the reason of choosing this topic, the field selection, research methods, defines the related concepts and mainly discusses the status and an overview of theoretical research and the research content of related disciplines. The second chapter mainly illustrates the cultural, geographical and religious background of Linxia Hui Autonomous prefecture. The third chapter to the seventh chapter is the main content of the paper. It makes full research on entrepreneurs from the quality and ability of system, growth environment, incentive and constraint mechanism, t social responsibility and the spirit of Linxia Muslim entrepreneurs. The eighth chapter summarizes the research of the previous five chapters, using the AHP analysis method and proposes that the optimal solution.