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Urban competition refers to capacities of cities for attracting, capturing, controlling, dominating and transforming certain resources during urban development, and capacities for wealth creating, life-standard improving and sustainable development maintenance. This paper first analyzes the external sources of urban competitive advantages: the global network-based advantages and the location-based ones. Then with the aid of method of principal component analysis in SPSS 10.0 for Windows, the Chinese urban global and local competitive advantages are explored. The finding is that the global network-and location-based advantages are remarkable for the cities in the eastern China. While for those in the western and the middle regions, affected by much lower regional competitive advantages and lower degrees of urban-regional integration, the urban competitive advantages are deeply influenced and weakened.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundations (No. 2003034038)
Biography: YU Tao-fang (1974–), male, a native of Qingdao of Shandong Province, Ph.D., specialized in urban competitiveness and urban planning. E-mail: yutaofang@gmail.com
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Yu, Tf., Gu, Cl. & Chen, Xy. External sources of urban competitive advantages in China. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 15, 95–102 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-005-0001-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-005-0001-2