On The Development Of Service Industry In Gansu From The Cluster Perspective

The world has entered the stage of service industry development, and service industry in developed countries has become the leading industry of the national economy. In contrast, China’s service industry has lagged far behind of the world. It is the focus of China’s national economical and social development in the next5-10years to speed up service industry development, take efforts to improve the quality and level of service industry, optimize the structure of service industry, and achieve the cluster development of service industry as soon as possible. In terms of the level of service industry development in Gansu, despite that service industry has a relatively fast development pace, it should be noted that there is still a great gap in Gansu, compared with the service industry in the developed areas in China, and with people’s need to improve living standards. Therefore, a profound understanding of the status and existing problems of Gansu’s service industry, especially from the cluster perspective, is significant for the continuous, rapid and healthy development of Gansu’s service industry.Taking Gansu’s service industry as its research object, the cluster as its perspective, learning from the latest domestic and foreign theories on service economy, employing scientific research and countermeasures exploration as its research methods, the present paper studies the evolution law and trends of the internal structure of the service industry development in developed countries and developed regions in China. The research results show that the developed countries have already completed the transition from the "industrial-based" economy to the "service economy", and the service industry has taken a dominant position in national economy. With the rapid development and the transformation of the internal structure of the service industry, developed countries have formed the cluster of service industry which has cast influence not only to their own countries but also to the world. Relatively speaking, there exists a gap in the service industry between the advanced regions of China and the advanced countries, whose internal and external conditions such as the institutional environment, cultural atmosphere and so on, however, have more similarities and comparability. Therefore, this paper examines service industry and its cluster development from the perspective of international and domestic, sums up the universal law which supports and leads the development of service industry. The research has found that cluster development is the universal experience of the service industry development; the level of development of economy is the driving force for the formation and development of the service industry cluster; the level of urbanization is the soil for the formation and development of the service industry cluster; government is an important driving force of the service industry cluster.This paper argued that, Gansu’s service industry has made great progress in recent years. At the same time, there also exist some problems in service industry such as low total amount, the uneven development of internal structure, the poor productivity, and unbalanced regional development. Therefore, this paper analyzes and summarizes the internal conditions and environment of the cluster development of service industry in Gansu, using the factor analysis, makes a horizontal comparison to the environmental factors of service industry cluster development from the aspects of location and transportation, communications, science technology, human resources, economic development and the market and so on. The research has found that, compared with other provinces, the environment of the cluster development of Gansu’s service industry is not ideal, but it has certain advantages compared with the surrounding provinces such as Qinghai, Ningxia and so on, and objectively speaking, some necessary conditions are available for the cluster development of service industry in Gansu since the service industry cluster is a spatial concept in some way.Having reviewed the existing evaluation system of service industry, from the perspective of cluster and constructed complex evaluation system of service industry, this paper has explored the problem in the development of Gansu’s service industry systematically and comprehensively. Having made an empirical analysis and evaluation comprehensively to the cluster level of service industry in different provinces in China and different cities in Gansu, the study has found that there are dependencies between the cluster of s Gansu’s service industry and the regional economic strength and industrial structure. For example, if a region has strength economy, its level of cluster development of service industry will be high; and the cluster development of service industry, in turn, can pour energy to a region’s economy, and promote the development of local’s economy and the adjustment of industrial structure. At the same time, in Jiayuguan and Jinchang, the two typical industrial cities of Gansu, the development of services does not match the development of industry, and the service system supporting a high level industry development hasn’t formed, thus inhibiting the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure and the healthy development of local’s economy.This paper argued that the cluster is a typical feature of the development of service industry, the scientific division of the developmental stages of service industry is the basis and foundation for the correct policy making. Having based on the suitability judged with the model, this paper, employing the Logistic function, divides the developmental stages of Gansu’s service industry, and puts forwards the strategy, path and policy recommendations with the cluster development of Gansu’s service industry according to the economical reality of Gansu and the universal experience and general theory of domestic and international cluster development of service industry in order to reveal and summarize the new cluster development path of the economically backward regions in China, and provide theoretical and practical basis for the cluster development of Gansu’s service industry.