The Statistical Measurement System of High-Quality Development Level of Cities - Based on Yangtze River Delta Region of China

Abstract

Combining China's development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, the paper constructs a high-quality development measurement system of Yangtze River Delta of China, which contains five dimensions: the optimization of economic structure, the efficient allocation of resource, the stable growth of economic, the regional development coordination and the presentation of economic achievements. Using 2019 municipal data, the entropy weighted TOPSIS method was used to statistically measure the level of high-quality development level of 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. And four categories of cities, namely excellent, good, normal and lagging, were classified. The results show that Shanghai has the highest level of high-quality development, and most cities have lower scores in the subsystem of the stable growth of economic. Finally, this paper makes targeted reasonable suggestions for cities, especially the lagging cities.