China's 17th highest national competitiveness

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 25th issued China National Competitiveness Report. The report noted that since the 1990s, China's national competitiveness has risen steadily, and 2008 ranked 17th place in the world.　　From the international comparison, China's national competitiveness and the U.S. gap is greater, and India's distance has not been fully opened. The report was published jointly by the Sun Zhifang Economic Science Foundation, the Center for Urban and Competitiveness Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Financial and Trade economics, and the social science literature Press. The report is based on factors such as population size, national influence and so on, and the display index selects 100 major countries and regions in the world.　　The United States, the European Union and Japan ranked top three in the latest national competitiveness rankings, based on data from 2008. The report said that the competitiveness of a country is a comprehensive embodiment of the strength of a country, not only in terms of economic aggregates, but also in the aspects of economic efficiency, economic structure, development potential and innovation ability. From the view of scale competitiveness, China's economy is huge, ranking in the forefront of the world.　　In terms of growth competitiveness, China also maintains a long-term leading edge, with a huge potential for steady growth. The report also notes that from the early 1990s to the beginning of 21st century, China's scale competitiveness has been rising at a slower pace, from 10th to 9th in 1 years, and 5 years from 7th to 6th.　　The reason, although there is a base effect, but more because of the lack of new economic growth point and extensive growth model lacks sustainability. The report argues that technology, talent, education and culture are the core of national competitiveness. In terms of human resources, China's total human resources is large, but the proportion of skilled personnel, engineers and scientists is very low, the overall quality of labor is not high; in education and health, although China has developed into a large country of higher education, there are many universities, but the overall level is not high, especially the lack of a group of world-class　　In the financial system, China has a lower index of the financial system than the US and, in science and technology, is less than 1/3 of the US.　　In terms of cultural and artistic competitiveness, the report predicts that as China's influence grows, the attractiveness of Chinese culture will become more and more attractive, and it is likely to develop into a cultural power in the future. The report also makes a detailed comparison of national competitiveness between the two countries. China and the United States, respectively, are the world's largest developing countries and the largest developed countries, playing an important role in the international arena. Compared to the two countries, the United States overall competitive advantage, in most areas are leading China, especially in the economic structure, global links and other advantages more obvious.　　For example, the United States has the highest level of human resource structure in the world, with the world's largest number of scientists and skilled personnel, each of the millions of research and technical personnel engaged in the development of 5 times times in China. However, China's economic growth, demand potential, domestic and foreign economic relations have begun to surpass the United States, to gain a competitive advantage. 2008 ChinaThe long competitiveness Index was 0.981, ranked 2nd in 100 countries, while the US Growth Competitiveness Index was 0.120, ranking only 90th.　　The report argues that China's rapid economic growth has laid a solid foundation for catching up with the US in terms of national competitiveness. Another country in the report that focuses on comparisons is India. China and India are the world's largest and fastest-growing two emerging economies. The report compares the national competitiveness of China and India with the two frameworks of display and interpretation: Before 2000, the national competitiveness of the two countries was comparable; since the end of last century, the country's competitiveness has been rising rapidly, and the position of leading India has gradually increased after 2004 years.　　2008, China ranked 17th in national competitiveness, India ranked 42nd. Although from the overall competitiveness, China is slightly stronger than India, but from the economic growth, industrial structure, innovation ability and other subdivision angle analysis, both China and India have their own development characteristics.　　China's economy has grown fast and remains basically stable, with economic growth growing at the top of the world for years, while India's economic growth is relatively volatile; India has a stronger industrial structure than China, with a 52.94% share in services in 2008, compared with 41.89% in China. Although India's National competitiveness level and China have a certain gap, but there are still many aspects of India is worth China's reference, such as legal construction, the protection of vulnerable groups, the inheritance of traditional culture, etc. China should keep the domestic main quality, supply level advantage, maintain the leading position of manufacturing industry, vigorously develop services, accelerate talent training, improve scientific and technological innovation ability, grasp the initiative of competition.