A Comparative Study On Urban Competitiveness In Xinjiang

With the deepening globalization of the international economy, the competitions of the countries and regions are shown as the competitions among cities and the urban colonies more and more. The competition among cities has become more and more fierce. Reorganization and development of urban function and structure, urban advantage and inferior position, are closely linked with competitiveness of cities. Therefore, the urban competitiveness has already become the focus nowadays, which is paid closer attention to extremely. Facing with the globalization, the research of how to improve the competitiveness of cities has become a great new significant subject for every city. The study helps appraise current condition, potentiality and trend of the cities in Xinjiang province to establish and improve development strategy of Xinjiang.By combining the theories of domestic and foreign urban competitiveness, such as international competitiveness theory and the theory of competitive advantage, the concept, content, features and the existing problems are discussed. The models of Porter's national competitiveness, IMD's national competitiveness, Douglas Webster's urban competitiveness, Ni Pengfei's urban competitiveness and IUD's urban competitiveness are appraised. The differences about these models are compared. With the knowledge of urban geography, urban economics as well as other related fields of study, an estimation index system of urban competitiveness is formed. The author selects 3 administrative levels of the total capacity, quality and flux and contain 12 secondary indicators, 25 tertiary indicators. The total capacity includes economic strength, financial strength, technology strength and government strength. The quality includes level of development, industrial structure, urban services establishment, social environment, the quality of the people. The flux includes financial flows, practicality flow and information flow. Selected nineteen cities in Xinjiang and makes a specific analysis on urban competitiveness via the year-to-year city-to-city comparison at three periods. Using Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis find out city ranking and clustering in year 1996, 2001and 2004, the advantage, disadvantage as well as potential in the urban competitiveness. The strategies for how to cope with Xingjian urban competitiveness are also presented in the article. Two innovations of this thesis are as follows:...