The Theoretical Hypothesis And Empirical Test On Regional Competitiveness

With the development of economic globalization, the competition between regions is becoming more and more drastic. And at the same time, more and more people start to study regional competitiveness. However, it is not so perfect by far that it is urgent to broaden the perspective and deepen the depth. For this, the paper takes regional competitiveness as research theme, and defines it through the comparison of competition to competitiveness, and comparative advantage to competitive advantage. Then, it analyses the economic basis of it, and puts forward a new model with "three-level and nine-side-face", in which, enterprise competitiveness, industry competitiveness and regional competitiveness are organically integrated. At the end, it designs a set of index system for evaluating regional competitiveness according to it's own model and the fact in China. As a result, it enriches and improves the research on regional competitiveness.It can be divided into 4 parts. Firstly, it introduces the history and current conditions of research on regional competitiveness in home and abroad. Secondly, it pays more attention to the theoretical hypothesis on regional competitiveness. in this part, it analyses deeply the economic basis, theoretical models and evaluation models, then it puts forward it's own model. Thirdly, in takes Hubei Province as an example to test the theoretical hypothesis on regional competitiveness. Before it evaluates comprehensively the regional competitiveness of 17 Provinces in China, the author analyses the location advantage, economic foundation, product factors and comparative advantage of some main industries. Then, it finds some counter-measures to heighten regional competitiveness of Hubei Province. In the last parts, it summarizes some main innovative points and conclusions.