Research On Industrial Structure Adjustment And Leading Industry Choice In Xiamen

Since reforming and opening-up , under the strategy framework of non-balancedcoordinated development the eastern coastal cities and areas in China have been utilizing the first-mover advantage of the policy, making full use of the opportunity of the reconstruction of international labor-division system to accelerate regional industrialization and urbanization. Development of economic society has achieved great success. But along with the development of industrialization and urbanization the extensive pattern for economic growth faces multiple pressures and bottleneckrestriction such as resources deficiency,environmental pollution,bearing capacity ofland resources. How to achieve the upgrading of the industrial structure, how to complete the transition of economic growth pattern and how to promote the healthy and sustainable development of economic society are common problems for governments at all levels. Xiamen is one of earliest open coastal cities of China so the research on the adjustment of industrial structure and leading industry choice in Xiamen is of referential significance for other eastern coastal cities and areas.Based upon the combination of regional economics and industrial economics, this article starts with analysis on theory of industrial structure, theoreticallysummarizes the general rules of evolution of industrial structure,the study on leadingindustry choice criterion, then taking Xiamen as an example, comes up with the thinking way and method for regional leading industry choice. Moreover, with the method for industry competitiveness analysis problems in Xiamen's current economic development are anal sized. At the end, through establishing the evaluation model of regional leading industry choice, empirical research is made upon the adjustment of industry structure and leading industry choice in Xiamen, then combined with qualitative analysis, the leading industries that drive the adjustment of industry structure in Xiamen during the "Eleventh Five- year Plan" are objectively choose. In addition policy proposals for adjustment of industry structure and fostering leading industry are put forward.The main innovation of this article lies in : First , taking collection of massivestatistical data and theory of industry structure as its basis and industry competitiveness as its main theme , it focuses on the main problem of currentdevelopment in Xiamen -- economic structure contradiction ; Secondly , there are some confusion among quite a few domestic scholars or local officials when it comes to the rationality of regional leading industry choice criterion,the scientific characterof model applications,the availability of indicators and data,the precision of conceptdemarcation, etc. In view of these the paper tries to make some breakthrough and put the realistic significance upon its research.