Modern Urban Development and Urban Comprehensive Competitiveness

Author: Zhang Zhongmin
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Modern Shanghai Urban Development and Urban Comprehensive Competitiveness is the final outcome of this research topic. The basic content and framework structure of this book study the development of modern Shanghai and its urban comprehensive competitiveness from three major levels: the comprehensive development environment of the city and urban competitiveness, the comprehensive economic strength of the city and urban competitiveness, and the overall service functions of the city and comprehensive competitiveness. The book is divided into 10 chapters.
Chapter 1: Location Environment and Location Competitiveness, mainly compares and examines two aspects. One is the geographical location of Shanghai itself and the resulting locational advantages; the other is the comparison of Shanghai's locational advantages with other important port cities in modern China. Additionally, it compares the location environment and location competitiveness of Shanghai with those of Tianjin and Hankou, further demonstrating the potential and foundational role of locational competitiveness in the formation of modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness.
Chapter 2: Modern Shanghai's Urban Institutional Environment and the Fluctuation of Comprehensive Competitiveness, primarily explores the institutional competitiveness centered around the institutional characteristics of modern Shanghai's "dual political system." By analyzing the evolution of the national institutional environment and the emergence of the special institutional environment of the concessions, it reveals the integration of Shanghai's overall institutional environment under the effect of the concessions, the superior position of modern Shanghai's urban institutional environment in the country, and the objective role of the institutional competitiveness formed in enhancing Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness.
Chapter 3: Social and Humanistic Environment and Urban Comprehensive Competitiveness, takes the competitiveness of the social and humanistic environment as the main research and analytical object. Based on a detailed analysis of modern Shanghai's cultural and educational undertakings, the cultural and educational quality of its citizens, the form of humanistic concepts, and the value orientation of its citizens, it summarizes the significant impact of the social and humanistic environment on urban comprehensive competitiveness.
Chapter 4: Factor Markets, Resource Allocation, and Urban Competitiveness, focuses on labor factor competitiveness, capital competitiveness, and resource allocation competitiveness as the specific research object. In the formation of modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness, the city's economic strength is the most important component. To examine the formation and enhancement of the city's economic strength, it is first necessary to see how modern Shanghai attracted various production factors and allocated economic resources.
Chapter 5: Industrial Development Level and Urban Competitiveness, analyzes the industrial structure of modern Shanghai and the resulting industrial and enterprise competitiveness, highlighting their core position in the economic strength of modern Shanghai. This includes an analysis of Shanghai's advantages in industrial investment scale, industrial sector structure, and industrial output value, as well as discussions on the organizational forms of industrial enterprises, enterprise competitiveness, the technological competitiveness of enterprise development, and the market competitiveness of enterprises and products.
Chapter 6: Trade Competitiveness under the Integration of Internal and External Trade, takes trade competitiveness as the main entry point, focusing on the analysis of the integration of internal and external trade, the construction of trade networks, and the agglomeration and diffusion functions of trade, as well as the radiating and guiding role of the port market system. It is precisely due to the integration of internal and external trade and the resulting market network that modern Shanghai's urban economy has achieved significant competitiveness, which plays a very important role in the formation of modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness.
Chapter 7: Modern Shanghai's Urban Consumption Function and Comprehensive Competitiveness, analyzes the urban consumption market and its contribution to urban competitiveness from the perspective of urban consumption demand, the consumption market constructed by urban commercial mechanisms, and the consumption environment created by urban services, as well as the special consumption market formed by urban real estate industry. It vividly portrays the urban consumption competitiveness, an important component of modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness.
Chapter 8: Urban Comprehensive Service Functions and Comprehensive Management Level, takes urban management and urban service competitiveness as the main research object, focusing on the formation, characteristics, and operational mechanisms of modern Shanghai's infrastructure competitiveness, social service functions, and urban comprehensive management competitiveness.
Chapter 9: Urban Innovation Mechanisms and Urban Competitiveness, analyzes and discusses the urban innovation capability that constitutes and drives modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness from three aspects: the diffusion of innovative awareness, the formation of the urban innovation system, and the driving mechanisms of urban innovation.
The final chapter, Chapter 10: Modern Shanghai's Urban Development and Urban Comprehensive Competitiveness, provides a comprehensive summary and discussion of modern Shanghai's urban development and urban comprehensive competitiveness based on the research of the previous chapters. It points out that the formation of modern Shanghai's urban comprehensive competitiveness is a historical process, and urban comprehensive competitiveness is not only the economic strength of the city but also includes the social environment, institutional factors, humanistic factors, and the comprehensive management level and capabilities of the city. The purpose of this book is to attempt to examine once again why modern Shanghai became the largest commercial port and industrial and commercial city in modern China from a specific perspective and method. It also hopes to promote the study of Shanghai's urban history and economic history, achieving certain methodological innovation and breakthroughs.