Making cities competitive and sustainable: Insights from comparative urban governance research

Zhu, Lihua; Li, Bingqin; Yi, Hongtao; Wu, Jihuai

doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2022.11.001

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“…Accordingly, the National Institute for Economic Strategy (CASS) has published the USC Index since 2012 and further explains the concept of USC: USC reflects a systematic ability to optimize urban development and meet the complex and critical social well-being of urban residents [7]. At present, research on USC mainly focuses on quantitative analysis, which evaluates the development of a country or region's USC by constructing USC evaluation indicators [26,27]. In short, the USC reflects the ability to grow in the long term and sustainably, rather than short-term economic growth, and focuses on the sustainability of growth patterns to achieve the harmonious development of wealth growth, quality of life and social well-being.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 the Concept Of Uscmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This analysis selects the urban sustainable competitiveness index, which uses a non-linear weighted composite method to measure the USC of China, and carries out empirical analysis in six aspects: knowledge, harmony, ecology, culture, territory-wide, and information, which is authoritative and scientific [7]. Moreover, even if there are studies that integrate various dimensions to construct the indicators of USC, these mostly focus on the qualitative analysis of USC [26,27], ignoring the key role of FDI in it, not to mention the analysis of the inner mechanism of FDI affecting USC. This study uses a mediating effects model to analyze the influencing mechanism of FDI on USC, which can provide new ideas and directions for designing strategies to improve the USC.…”

Section: The Influencing Mechanism Of Fdi On Uscmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Does FDI Enhance Urban Sustainable Competitiveness in China?

Jiang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Urban sustainable competitiveness (USC) is one of the important indexes to measure the high-quality development of cities in China. Meanwhile, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays the prominent role in improving urban sustainable competitiveness. Therefore, this analysis aimed to test the impact of FDI on the USC and its mechanism using the intermediary effect model with a sample of 282 cities in China during the period 2012–2018. The influencing mechanism includes the scale effect, the technological effect, and the structural effects. The results show that: first, FDI is significantly and positively related to the USC of China, and the scale, technological and structure effects all play a mediating role, with the scale effects being the most significant. Moreover, population size shows negative effect on the USC. Second, the impact of FDI on the USC is regionally heterogeneous. FDI can significantly improve the USC in the eastern region, but has no significant effects on the northeastern, central and western regions. Third, FDI in the eastern region affects USC through structural effects, while the scale and technological effects do not play a mediating role but both effects can directly affect USC. FDI in the northeast region still has the structural effect, but this structural effect does not indirectly affect USC, while FDI in the western region has both scale and structural effects. In addition, the technological and structural effects in the central region have a direct impact on USC, while the scale effect in the western region has a direct impact on USC. Therefore, the findings suggest that utilizing FDI should take into account regional characteristics in China.

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Section: Literature Review 21 the Concept Of Uscmentioning

confidence: 99%