A Comparative Study on the Competitiveness of Chinese Cities in 2010 and 2020 Based on Principal Component Analysis

--Taking the data of 284 cities in China as an example

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_52How to use a DOI?

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Urban Competitiveness; China; Principal Component Analysis

Abstract

China is urbanizing rapidly, and the development of cities at all levels and in all categories is changing rapidly. Urban competitiveness evaluation is the main method to evaluate the quality of urban development. Since the 1990s, scholars at home and abroad have conducted research on urban competitiveness, and the definition of urban competitiveness has not yet been standardized. The development process of Chinese cities is different from that of the West, especially since the 18th Party Congress, China’s economic development and urban development are facing transformation and upgrading, and the connotation and evaluation of urban competitiveness have also changed significantly. Therefore, this paper adopts the principal component analysis method to evaluate the competitiveness of 284 cities in China in the two years of 2010 and 2020 in six indicators of economic development, social development, science and technology innovation, eco-environment, infrastructure, and opening up to the outside world, and conducts inter-period comparisons, comparisons of the competitiveness of cities in different regions of East, Central and West and comparative analyses of the competitiveness of large, medium-sized and small cities in respect of the main components extracted, as well as gives the corresponding policy recommendations.

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AU  - Shengxuan Sun
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - A Comparative Study on the Competitiveness of Chinese Cities in 2010 and 2020 Based on Principal Component Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 523
EP  - 544
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_52
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_52
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