High-Quality Economic Development in Huaihe Economic Zone Level Measurement and Evaluation
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Hindawi Journal of Mathematics Volume 2021, Article ID 6615884, 16 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6615884 Research Article High-Quality Economic Development in Huaihe Economic Zone Level Measurement and Evaluation Xin Sun,1 Shu Fang,1 and Su Zhang 2 1School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030, China 2Department of Physical Education, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China Correspondence should be addressed to Su Zhang; [email protected] Received 6 December 2020; Revised 24 January 2021; Accepted 4 February 2021; Published 18 February 2021 Academic Editor: Hijaz Ahmad Copyright © 2021 Xin Sun et al. -is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. -is article constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system from four aspects: economic vitality, innovation efficiency, green development, and people’s lives. Use the entropy method to comprehensively measure the urban competitiveness level of 25 counties and cities in the economic zone, clarify the differences in their high-quality development levels, and use spatial econometric analysis methods to study the spatial agglomeration and dispersion and spatial convergence of regional urban competitiveness. -e results show that the following: (1) the overall high-quality development level of the Huaihe River Eco- Economic Zone is not high, and the overall time and space characteristics is “high in the east and low in the west”; (2) there is a positive spatial autonomy in urban competitiveness and the spatial distribution of the Huaihe River, and relevantly, the degree of closeness of spatial associations between cities is generally low; (3) the gap between the level of urban competitiveness in Jiangsu Province is shrinking, the development of other provinces has a time lag effect, and there are differences in the level of urban competitiveness. Finally, to promote the high-quality development of the Huaihe Economic Zone, we must follow the law of the basin and the characteristics of spatial distribution and implement targeted strategies. 1. Introduction Urban development is an important embodiment of regional and even national economic development and an -e report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist important force to promote social progress. Improving Party of China (CPC) pointed out that China’s economy has urban competitiveness is an important way to promote changed from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality regional development. Compared with other cities, urban development stage, and achieving high-quality development competitiveness refers to the actual and potential ability of of China’s economy is not only the demand of China’s a city to create and promote regional and national wealth. It current national conditions but also the direction of better is also the ability of a city to optimize the allocation of and faster development of the national economy in the fu- resources in its subordinate regions for its own develop- ture. As the fourth economic growth pole of China, the ment. Urban competitiveness is the ability of internal Huaihe River ecological economic belt, following the Yangtze stability, sustainable development, external attraction, and River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Bohai Sea, is bound radiation demonstrated by the urban system. And it is the to be an important area for China to achieve high-quality ability of cities to exert their own advantages and create a economic development. In 2018, the CPC Central Com- good internal and external environment to gather, spread, mittee and the State Council promulgated the Development and utilize various resource elements. -e national and Plan for the Huaihe River ecological economic belt, which regional coordinated development strategy has been defined the implementation path of better and faster eco- gradually improved, and the regional competition with the nomic development in Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, central city as the main driving force has become in- and Hubei Provinces. creasingly fierce. Make good use of transportation, 2 Journal of Mathematics platform, system, talents, and other resources so that the regional, national, and international markets, while in- central city can truly play the pivotal role of driving the core creasing actual income levels, improving the quality of life of of regional innovation and development, leading the di- citizens and promoting the city capacity for sustainable rection of regional reform and development, gathering development.” Malecki [2] absorbed the above ideas and regional resources and moving lines, and accelerating re- created employment, attracting domestic and foreign in- gional high-quality development with the construction of vestment and skilled migration and the ability to generate high-energy central cities. -erefore, it is of great theo- sufficient income as the connotation of urban competi- retical significance to take the urban agglomeration of tiveness. Turok [3] defines urban competitiveness as the Huaihe River ecological economic belt as the research relative position of enterprises in a region in the external object, grasp the connotation of high-quality development, market, internal resources, and resource utilization. Iyer [4] and construct a scientific, complete, and reasonable eval- et al. compared urban competitiveness with national com- uation system of high-quality development, so as to realize petitiveness and emphasized that both are competing for the high-quality economic development of five provinces. market share. Gundersen [5] et al. studied the complex At present, the country and the region have not issued relationship between urban competitiveness, corporate a clear evaluation system of high-quality development positioning, and transportation systems and found that measurement with a reference value. From the current labor, land, capital, management, and technical skills are the research situation, foreign scholars pay attention to the main factors of urban attractiveness and competitiveness. mechanism of economic development quality and lack of Chinese scholars have lately studied urban competitiveness. in-depth research on the index system. Most domestic Among them, Ning and Tang [6] et al. believe that urban scholars pay attention to the problems and contradictions competitiveness refers to the creation and maintenance of of high-quality development and the connotation and urban competitiveness under the combined effects of system of economic development, which is unscientific multiple factors such as society, economic structure, values, and limited to a certain extent. It is difficult to measure culture, and institutional policies. A city develops its ability the development level of high-quality effectively. On the to optimize the allocation of resources in its subordinate basis of analyzing the connotation of high quality and large areas, thereby achieving sustained growth in the city’s combining with the characteristics of urban agglomera- economy. Ni [7] believed that if a city has greater advantages tion in Huaihe River ecological economic belt, this paper in competition and development compared with other cities, establishes a set of evaluation system of high-quality its ability to compete for, own, control, and transform re- development of economic belt covering four aspects: sources and markets, improve residents’ welfare, and create economic vitality, innovation efficiency, green develop- value must be stronger. ment, and people’s life. -e objective entropy method is Foreign scholars have also made profound explanations adopted to calculate the weight coefficient and compre- on the mechanism of economic development quality. From hensive scores of urban agglomeration in Huaihe River the classical growth model, the neoclassical growth model, to ecological economic belt from 2005 to 2018, and the the endogenous growth model, economics has been multidimensional dynamic evaluation analysis is carried researching economic growth. -e initial state of sustainable out. In order to achieve high-quality economic devel- economic growth, the transformation from factor input to the opment in Huaihe River eco-economic belt, the com- study of total factor productivity and innovation, reflects. It petitiveness of its internal urban agglomeration should has evolved from the quantity of economic growth to the form a unified whole. -erefore, the spatial correlation is study of the quality of economic growth. Krugman [8] be- used to analyze the spatial agglomeration and dispersion lieves that East Asia’s economic growth mainly depends on characteristics of regional urban competitiveness, and the factor inputs, and total factor productivity has no prominent spatial convergence of urban competitiveness is empir- effect on East Asia’s economic growth. Mlachila [9] et al. ically analyzed by the α an d β convergence method. Fi- believe that, for developing countries, more sustained socially nally, according to the analysis results, it provides friendly growth is high-quality growth. Qi [10] builds an practical suggestions for government departments to economic growth quality evaluation system from the aspects formulate relevant policies. of scale performance, structure, and coordination. Domestic scholar Li [11] believed that economic development includes 2. Literature Review not only the speed