Since the first batch of 14 national economic and technological development zones were approved to be established in China’s coastal areas,so far,there are about 230 national economic and technological development zones(hereinafter referred to as national economic and technological development zones).After years of development,national economic development zones have become an important growth point of China’s economic development.As a successful case and important platform of China’s opening to the outside world,national economic development zones have always been the main force in attracting foreign investment.The executive meeting of the State Council deliberated and adopted the opinions of the State Council on promoting the innovation and upgrading of national economic and technological development zones and building a new place for reform and opening up in 2019.The 14 th Five Year Plan and the Vision 2035 outline proposed to accelerate the construction of a Dual circulation with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international double circulation promoting each other,driven by innovation.The main purpose is to promote institutional innovation,scientific and technological innovation and opening innovation of national economic and Technological Development zones,build a new highland of reform and opening up,improve the level of foreign cooperation and strive to achieve high-quality development.In this context,the national economic development zone has been given the important carrier and starting point to play a good role in improving the level of opening to the outside world,and the important task of helping China steadily promote a new round of high-level opening to the outside world.S city’s national economic development zone is known as an important window of China’s reform and opening up and a successful model of international cooperation.Behind the achievements are the powerful momentum brought by the local development zone government’s measures to change government functions,increase investment attraction and improve the business environment.At the same time,entering the new period of development,especially under the action of "catalyst" of the epidemic situation,COVID-19 has profoundly affected the world pattern and international order,and the uncertainty of geopolitics has increased,and the willingness of global economic and trade cooperation has also decreased significantly.The state-level economic development zone of s city is also faced with the intensification of trade friction and increasingly fierce regional competition caused by the international economic cycle and the reconstruction of industrial division.There are also a series of problems,such as insufficient kinetic energy of emerging industries,declining growth rate of regional market players,low market operation efficiency,weak departmental coordination ability and so on.Based on new Public Management theory,new public service theory,Public choice and other theoretical perspectives,this paper takes S City’s national economic development zone as the research object,and comprehensively uses literature reading,interview research,questionnaire survey and other methods to analyze the development process of S City’s national economic development zone and the current situation of attracting investors.At the same time,analyze the main problems of investment attraction at the current stage,including homogenization of investment projects,insufficient development momentum of emerging industries,insufficient participation of market entities,and failure to keep up with the times in investment attraction methods.Analyze the causes from the perspectives of government function positioning,talent attraction,and top-level industrial design.Based on the investment experience of developed countries such as the United States,Japan,Singapore,and other regions,as well as the investment experience of national level economic development zones such as Shanghai and Tianjin,combined with the actual investment situation of S city’s national level economic development zones,it is proposed that the government should strengthen industrial research to achieve misplaced competition,transform its functional positioning in investment attraction,create a service-oriented government,and build a new market-oriented investment management system to provide reference and guidance for better leveraging government functions and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of national level economic development zones in the new historical period. |