Research On The Competitiveness Of Retailing Industry In Hebei Province

The developmental trend of world economy shows that, in the later stage of industrialization, the circulation industry of one economic body had more and more important impacts on the development of manufacturing industry, and the retailing industry as the major constitution of the circulation industry, had been the important force to promote the production development. Under the economic globalization and the condition of buyer market, by relying on its huge sale system and retail network,the retailing industry is to be the important industry in promoting the national economy gradually, which plays an important role in satisfying the increasing material and cultural needs of people, improving people's living standards, solving the social employment, and promoting economic development and so on, and the competitiveness of retailing industry has become an important factor in determining the economic development level in a country or region. However, compared to the developed provinces and cities, the development of retailing industry in Hebei Province is still relatively backward at present, and its competitiveness is relatively lower. Therefore, researching on the competitiveness of retailing industry in Hebei Province, is beneficial to know the competitive level of retailing industry of Hebei in our country, analyzing the existent insufficiency of the development in retailing industry of Hebei and putting forward the countermeasures and suggestions, which has important meaning in promoting the healthy development of retailing industry in Hebei Province, improving people's life quality, and realizing the sustainable development of economic in Hebei Province.Due to the research methods of statistical analysis, investigation analysis and comparative analysis, this paper analyses the competitiveness of retailing industry in Hebei. First of all, this paper analyses the background and significance of the competitiveness of retailing industry in Hebei, the domestic and foreign research, and introduces the analysis framework, the research methods, the innovations and deficiencies in this paper. Secondly, this paper analyses the related concepts and theories of competitiveness of retailing industry. Thirdly, this paper analyses the present situation of the development of retailing industry in Hebei, including the scale of retailing industry, the development of retailing industry in every region of Hebei, the development of retailing format, the management state of retail companies, and government policies and so on, so as to have a clear realization about present situation of retailing industry of Hebei Province. Fourthly, through in-depth analysis of factors influencing the competitiveness of retailing industry, basis on the principles of establishing evaluation index system, the evaluation index system of competitiveness of retailing industry is built and the evaluation method is determined in this paper. Fifthly, by means of the evaluation index system and the methods of principal component analysis, this paper finds 5 principal factors, including industrial scale factor, industrial market potential and internationalization level factor, industrial profit ability factor, industrial operation ability factor, and industrial development environment factor, analyses the level of the competitiveness of retailing industry of Hebei in 31 provinces and cities, and comparative analyses the evaluation indexes of Hebei and other areas that are high component score and ranking, then gets a conclusion that there are advantages and disadvantages in the competitiveness of retailing industry in Hebei, which can be drawn that the industrial scale is relatively larger and its growth significantly, the industrial development environment is good, but the level of comprehensive competitiveness of retailing industry is only in middle and lower level in China, the market potential and market performance of retailing industry are lower, and the economic opening rate of retailing industry is comparatively not high. Finally, this paper also puts forward some ways to promote the competitiveness of retailing industry in Hebei Province: continue to expand the scale of retailing industry, improve operating management mode of retail companies, give full play to government function, and optimize industrial policies.