How to Improve Urban Competitiveness

Urban competitiveness has been the hot topic for researches and studies over years. The aim of this paper is to elaborate urban competitiveness. First, definition of competitiveness is discussed in detail and then the differences of competitiveness of nations and enterprises are presented. In Section 2, urban competitiveness is defined. Since the assessment of urban competitiveness is the focus of many studies, Section 3 elaborates four models or frameworks for assessing urbancompetitiveness. Last, but by no means the least, Chengdu has been discussed as a case on how to improve urban competitiveness. Three suggestions are put forward, which are clustering strategy, more efficient governance and urban marketing campaigns respectively.

苏尔寿纺织机械Sulzer Textile

苏尔寿纺织机械集团由瑞士苏尔寿·鲁蒂(Sulzer Rueti)公司和意大利Nuovo Pignone公司于1999年初合并组建而成。尽管苏尔寿纺织机械集团是个新组建的公司,但事实上这合并使苏尔寿·鲁蒂和Nuovo Pignone都得到了扩大和发展。苏尔寿纺织目前销售的机器数量已超过22万台。这一事实充分证明了该公司在织造领域的丰富经验。公司还通过在世界各地的服务中心向世界90多个国家派出服务人员竭诚为各客户服务。在’99ITMA进行的10天里,这个新改组的公司成功地通过了第一次考验。苏尔寿纺织机械集团的执行总裁Philip Mosimann和市场销售经理Christopher Somm得到了积极的反馈和超过1000张的订单。在该公司的展台桌前,签名的参观人数多达7000人。