Quantitative Research on Regional Competitiveness of Longyan City of Fujian 

Liang Chu

Changzhou Municipal Planning Bureau, Changzhou, 213000, China 

Abstract: As the regional economy enhances its position in national economic space pattern, the urban-regional relationship is restructuring, and the urban development has an increasing demand on enhancing its competitiveness through collaborative cooperation and advantage remolding from the perspective of overall regional scale. By aid of SPSS and GIS spacial analysis and mathematical statistic analysis tools, this paper adopts a set of multidimensional and comprehensive indicator system, establishes 7 first-level indicators and 16 second-level indicators to recognize the current competitiveness of Longyan City in Hercynian economic zone; besides, it reveals that the prominent presentation of insufficient regional competitiveness lies in the problems of population-employment, land-space and industry-economy. Wherein, the population-employment problem refers to insufficient attraction of population, uneven distribution of employment space, deficient employment positions in counties and low employment structure energy level out of the central cities; the land-space problem refers to few quantity of land suitable for construction, relatively-extensive urban land in limited construction lands, disperse and inefficient construction lands in rural ares; the industry-economy problem refers to single and primary pillar industries, insufficient science and technology innovation impetus, lack of talent cultivation and attraction. This paper provides basis for formulating urban competitiveness enhancement strategy for the regions centering on urban agglomeration.

Keywords: Regional competitiveness; Competitiveness evaluation; Longyan City