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Comparison Analysis and Evaluation of Urban Competitiveness in Chinese Urban Clusters

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  • Haixiang Guo

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    Research Center for Digital Business Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China)

  • Xiao Liu

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Yijing Li

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Deyun Wang

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    Research Center for Digital Business Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Xiaohong Chen

    (School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China)

Abstract

With accelerating urbanization, urban competitiveness has become a worldwide academic focus. Previous studies always focused on economic factors but ignored social elements when measuring urban competitiveness. In this paper, a city was considered as a whole containing different units such as departments, individuals and economic activities, which interact with each other and affect its economic operation. Moreover, a city’s development was compared to an object’s movement, and the components were compared to different forces acting upon the object. With the analysis of the principle of object movement, this study has established a more scientific evaluation index system that involves 4 subsystems, 12 elements and 58 indexes. By using the TOPSIS method, the study has worked out the urban competitiveness of 141 cities from 28 Chinese urban clusters in 2009. According to the calculation results, these cities were divided into four levels: A, B, C, D. Furthermore, in order to analyze the competitiveness of cities and urban clusters, cities and urban clusters have been divided into four groups according to their distributive characteristics: the southeast, the northeast and Bohai Rim, the central region and the west. Suggestions and recommendations for each group are provided based on careful analysis.

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  • Haixiang Guo & Xiao Liu & Yijing Li & Deyun Wang & Xiaohong Chen, 2015. "Comparison Analysis and Evaluation of Urban Competitiveness in Chinese Urban Clusters," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-23, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:7:y:2015:i:4:p:4425-4447:d:48216
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    1. Niusha Esmaeilpoorarabi & Tan Yigitcanlar & Mirko Guaralda, 2016. "Place quality and urban competitiveness symbiosis? A position paper," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1), pages 4-21.
    2. Fan Zhang & Xiyang Lou & Yuemin Ning, 2021. "The comparative study of China's mega‐city regions: A perspective of competitiveness," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(1), pages 425-442, March.
    3. Malin Song & Qianjiao Xie, 2021. "Evaluation of Urban Competitiveness of the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt Based on Dynamic Factor Analysis," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 58(3), pages 615-639, October.
    4. Weiwei Li & Pingtao Yi & Danning Zhang, 2018. "Sustainability Evaluation of Cities in Northeastern China Using Dynamic TOPSIS-Entropy Methods," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-15, December.

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