Creative Industries, The Impact On City Competitiveness Research

In recent years, many topics about creative industry are becoming hot discussion. Cultural and creative industries have become a worldwide trend in economic development. Many creative productions, promotions and services in some cities are developing very rapidly. A lot of international cities such as London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, without exception, have strong creative industries. In fact, creative industries have become pillar industry of these cities and a huge wave of creative economy has started sweeping the globe. Shanghai is the economic center. Led by Shanghai, the Yangtze River delta region of China is the most vibrant economic regions and is of critical status in China's economic and social development. Shanghai's modernization process is in the critical of transition of investment-driven to innovation-driven economic, which is also an important period of strategic opportunities.However, whether in researches of city competitiveness or creative industries, experts and scholars are only within the scope of the study on their own research objective exposition. At present, there is no dedicated to the relationship between the two theories. Against this background, this paper aims to evaluate the cultural and creative competitiveness of the city's role in principle, and applied this principle to the actual situation in Shanghai analysis.This paper studies the creative industries in the development of the situation at home and abroad, the related theories of city competitiveness and the creative industries. By the comprehensive analysis of the author, explore innovative industries to raise the competitiveness of the significance of the role of creative industries in the city competitiveness and the basis of principle and law. Pending this theoretical research results, the results were applied to the creative industries in Shanghai for the empirical analysis. This paper also explores the creative industries of Shanghai's urban competitiveness of the contribution and existing problems and gaps.When exploring the creative industries to the city to enhance the competitiveness of the role played by, this paper compares several foreign cities and reference existing urban competitiveness theory or model of factor analysis. With this conclusion, this paper uses qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis and takes Shanghai's development of creative industries as an example, makes an empirical analysis on development of creative industries and urban competitiveness.Through analysis and study, the main conclusion drawn is, based on the new division of industry; creative industries enhance the city's competitive edge through four ways (optimization of the industrial structure, industry clustering, the creation of a city's image, the urban comparative advantage). This conclusion can be a theoretical guide when anglicizing the creative industries of urban economy of the role played by, establishing creative industries in the development of the city status or developing the creative industries, urban development planning.