The Evaluation of the Old Industrial Base Transformation—With the Development of Modern Service Industrial Cluster in Liaoning Province as an Example
Xuemei Liu, He Sun, Baixia Liu
Shenyang University, Shenyang, China.
DOI: 10.4236/me.2015.612119   PDF    HTML   XML   3,300 Downloads   3,982 Views   Citations

Abstract

With the development of economy and the cluster development of modern service industry, the revitalization plan of northeast area and the upgrading of industrial structure in Liaoning depend on the improvement of its modern service industry. But the cluster development is the mainstream not only in developed countries but also domestic developed areas. Therefore, to speed up the process of modern service industry cluster in Liaoning has certain significances in promoting the development of clustering situation which should be guided reasonably.

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Liu, X. , Sun, H. and Liu, B. (2015) The Evaluation of the Old Industrial Base Transformation—With the Development of Modern Service Industrial Cluster in Liaoning Province as an Example. Modern Economy, 6, 1261-1269. doi: 10.4236/me.2015.612119.

Received 27 November 2015; accepted 16 December 2015; published 21 December 2015

1. The Overview of Modern Service Industry

1.1. The Connotation of the Modern Service Industry

Compared with the traditional service industry, modern service industry is modern and informationalized. With the development of science and technology, it is essential to modernize the traditional industry and promote the application of modern information and technology. The development of modern service industry will provide higher-value and high-tech industry. The modern service industry mainly contains the following sectors: modern logistics; information transmission, software and information technology services; financial industry; real estate, etc. [1] . Its classification is shown in Table 1.

Table 1. The classification of china’s modern service industry.

From GB_T4754-2011.

1.2. The Connotation and Classification of Modern Service Industrial Cluster

When talking about the connotation of modern service industrial cluster, there isn’t a unified definition in the world. However, depending on the researches at home and abroad and the connotation of industrial cluster applied extensively, it is concluded that modern service industry cluster is a new organization structure. This new structure can not only bring economies of scope and economies of scale, but also point out the close relationship in a certain space [2] . The industrial cluster as a spatial agglomeration phenomenon keeps in a close economic relations with special locations, and it is characterized by the path of special location. It is based on the industrial cluster theory and has a long-term goal.

The classification of modern service industrial cluster is summarized roughly as the following:

1) original cluster

The regional natural resources or some congenital advantages promote the development of original cluster. During the long endogenous process, the industrial cluster is the main performance in industrial agglomeration or the collection of enterprises, so most scholars defined it as Marshall industrial cluster. This kind mainly focuses on some private small and medium-sized enterprises, which also exists the mutual competition, just like the wholesale and retail.

2) embedded cluster

Embedded cluster is between native cluster and exogenous cluster which is also known as advantage cluster. When they have built their own certain foundation, the government preferential policies or guide will play a role in reinforcing the application of the capital and technology which can promote it to be the leading enterprise in the areas. So this kind of enterprises is almost technology intensive modern service industry and capital intensive modern service industry, which greatly rely on the government guidance, such as financial industry, scientific research and technical services.

3) exogenous cluster

Exogenous cluster enterprises entirely depend on the government’s arrangement, which just own limited factor endowments. And the limited factor endowments refer to the natural resources of local or regional conditions. The typical representative of exogenous cluster is the free trade zone.

4) collaborative cluster

Collaborative cluster is the emerging form of cluster, which is the special competitive cooperation. This kind of cluster will promote the collaborative technology research and the enterprises’ internal competitiveness. It is better to realize common development by forming multiple center enterprises and reinforce the mutual trust.

5) driven cluster

The driven cluster mainly highlights the effect of a giant modern service industrial enterprise, and will lead other enterprises to form industrial clusters.

2. Construct Evaluation Index System

2.1. The Evaluation Method of the Development of Modern Service Industrial Cluster

Based on the scholar’s point of views and the problems preliminarily discussed, it is concluded that they carry out the different index system for the different research angle. But establishing a perfect system of comprehensive evaluation is an important premise. This paper establishes the multi-target appraisal, depending on the current scholars’ researches and the limited useful data.

This paper takes in the basic law of modern service industrial cluster and the precious scholars’ experiences and achievements. It is necessary to point out the research about the service industrial development in Gansu written by Jinmei. Using for reference from the above research and the level of modern service industrial cluster in Liaoning, it establishes the index system and also divided into 18 comprehensive indexes [3] . It is not only beneficial to compare modern service industrial cluster of regions, but also to ensure the finding’s accuracy. The specific level of evaluation index about modern service industrial cluster is shown in the following Table 2:

2.2. The Collection and Instructions of Data

Because of the second economic census in 2008 in China and the limitations of statistical data in Liaoning province, this article adopts the statistical data of Liaoning province in 2013. At the same time, the lack of statistical caliber decides this paper to give up external evaluation but to choice the internal evaluation. Besides, the

Table 2. Modern service industry evaluation index in Liaoning.

Jin, M. (2013) The Research of Industry Development in Gansu Province Based on Cluster]. Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, (9), 56-87.

development of modern service industrial cluster in Liaoning is used in the early stage, which requires to take in the industrial cluster data instead of industrial data.

3. The Evaluation of the Development of Modern Service Industrial Cluster in Liaoning

3.1. The Evaluation of Development Conditions

From the factor analysis of development conditions, this paper mainly takes in the following factors: GDP (f1), GDP per capita (f2), industrial GDP (f3), 18 - 60 population (f4), students in high school or above (f5) (Table 3).

1) factor analysis

Factor analysis calculation is made by SPSS. After the reflection as correlation coefficient matrix and the KMO inspection and Bartlett ball inspection, it shows that the characteristic roots of the first and the second common factor is 4.155 and 0.625. All the three public factors explain 99.718 percent of the original variables. So it abandons the other two public factors which means just little information lost with an ideal analysis effect.

2) the score table of development conditions

From the above-mentioned analysis result (Table 4), we choice the variance contribution rate as the proportion, and get the scores formulas of various areas:

Depending on the Table 5, when talking about the development condition, the top three regions are Dalian, Shenyang and Anshan whose scores respectively are 1.38, 1.36, 0.184; by contrast, the last three areas are Fuxin, Huludao and Tieling with the lowest score. We also conclude that the development conditions of almost regions are lower than the average level except the Dalian, Shenyang and Anshan. It is easy to get that the development condition is influenced by the GDP, industrial development situation, the population, the educational level, etc. Besides, the above data shows that the 14 regions in Liaoning develop in a different level, and the gap in basic condition is great.

Table 3. The cluster development condition index in Liaoning modern service industry.

From the statistical yearbook of Liaoning province 2014.

Table 4. Total variance explained.

From SPSS.

Table 5. Score table of the development level in Liaoning regions.

From the statistical yearbook of Liaoning province 2014.

3.2. The Evaluation of Economic Efficiency

Considering the representative and the useful of the data, the factor analysis of economic efficiency of modern service industrial cluster choices the following factors: modern service industry in GDP (f1), modern service industry GDP per capitals (f2), the third industry GDP (f3), modern service industry employment (f4), the proportion of modern service industry employment (f5), modern service industry GDP/GDP (f6), the third industry GDP/GDP (f7).

This part of factor analysis is same with the previous section, so it omits the steps and gives the results directly.

The composite scores ranking in the Table 6 shows that, in 2013, the economic efficiency in Liaoning 14 regions are still a great gap. The top three cities are Dalian, Shenyang and Yingkou, whose composite scores respectively are 1.46, 1.27 and 0.06, the other regions’ scores are negative. Briefly, the situation is severe. Through the analysis, it is easily to find that the economic efficiency of the Shenyang economic zone and the coastal economic belt is better than the northwestern Liaoning province. According to 2013 statistics, the proportion of the first industry in GDP in northwestern Liaoning province is still as high as 20%. This economic

Table 6. The score table of economic efficiency in Liaoning regions.

From the statistical yearbook of Liaoning province 2014.

phenomenon implies that economic efficiency of modern service industrial in the northwestern Liaoning province is weak. At the same time, the development of the Anshan, Benxi and Fushun owns the advantages of industrial foundation which can provide the support of capital [4] . Even though can improve the economic efficiency in the early stage, it will put off the development of modern service industrial cluster in the long term. The experience of the top composite scores regions indicates that their own advantages, just like the location and the provincial advantage, play an essential role in promoting modern service industrial cluster.

3.3. The Evaluation of Cluster

There are kinds of methods used in the research of industrial cluster depending on the precious scholars’ experience. This article mainly brings into the concentration coefficient. In some extent, concentration coefficient is a relative index, according to per capitals output or yield. This method uses a relative index to explain the development of modern service industrial cluster more scientific and more persuasive. In addition, concentration coefficient method is operated simply and the result is intuitive. Its formula is shown as followed:

Note:

CCij: the concentration coefficient of industry i in region j; eij: the output value of industry i in region j; pj: the employment of industry i in region j; n: the number of region. It is easy to get the conclusion that the greater ofthe numerical value of CCij, the more concentrated of this industry. The following Table 7 is the concentration coefficient of the 14 regions in Liaoning in 2013.

This table analyzes the 9 sectors of 14 regions in Liaoning province. The result indicates that the concentration coefficient is general low which means the concentration ratio in these regions is weak, which also means its development condition and economic efficiency is unapparent. By comparison, Shenyang and Dalian possess the prominent environmental advantage and economic conditions, which lead to the two regions’ concentration coefficient higher than 1. Besides, their low cluster level in Tieling, Huludao and Chaoyang has a close relationship with the relative poor foundation. Many theory and practice prove that the development of modern ser-

Table 7. The concentration coefficient in Liaoning regions 2013.

From the statistical yearbook of Liaoning province 2014.

vice industrial cluster not only is affected by some hardware factors like the geographical conditions, the resources endowment, but also influenced by the software factors such as the policy, market economy. Overall, the whole level in the 14 regions is general low, especially those regions whose concentration coefficient is lower than 1. These regions must exist some obstacles to limit the development of the whole region.

3.4. The Comprehensive Evaluation

According to the above analysis of development condition and the economic efficiency, and the statistical calculation of concentration coefficient, this paper adopts AHP. AHP is also called expert rating or literature reading method, put forward in 1970s by professor Satty from University of Pittsburgh. As a hierarchy weighted decision-making analysis method, it is widely used in systematic analysis which combines the quantity factors with quality factors in a more clear way.

Through the calculation of the judgment matrix and the RI table, we concluded the weighing factor of development condition, the economic efficiency and concentration coefficient [5] (Table 8, Table 9).

According to the comprehensive score statistics of modern service industrial cluster (Table 10, Table 11), the top regions are Dalian, Shenyang, Yingkou, Anshan, whose scores are 1.52, 1.26, 0.47, 0.33 among the regions, Dalian in the coastal economic belt get the highest score, and Shenyang as the capital city is far higher than others. The composite scores ranged from 0.1 to 0.3 are forced in Fushun, Panjin, Benxi, Jinzhou, Liaoyang; and then, it is necessary to pay attention on the last regions like: Huludao, Dandong and the northwestern Liaoning province, whose composite scores are negative. By competing, the greatest gap in composite scores is 1.6 overall, the development of modern service industrial cluster has a close relationship with their development condition, economic efficiency. For a long time, the cluster level is deeply influenced by the regional economy development. Meanwhile, the cluster development of modern service provides impetus to the improvement of locale conomy and the upgrade of regional industrial structure. Based on the analysis of three districts in Liaoning (Chaoyang, Fuxin, Tieling), the low score incluster development is directly related to the imperfect industrial structure.

Table 8. The second level judgment matrix.

From the document consulting and investigation and expert consultation.

Table 9. RI.

Hong, Z.G., Li, Y., Fan, Z.G. and Wang, Y. (2002) The Calculations of AHP and RI. Computer Engineering and Application, (12), 45-47.

Table 10. The weighing factor.

From Table 8 and Table 9.

Table 11. The scores table of cluster development of modern service industry in Liaoning regions.

From Tables 5-7.

4. Conclusions

Based on the analysis of modern service industrial cluster development in Liaoning, we come to the following conclusion: 1) modern service industrial cluster in Liaoning is underdeveloped; 2) there exists large development gap among 14 districts; 3) modern service has strict requirement for the economy development. Modern service industrial cluster development is a special concept, in which the achieved effect of development cannot always be coincident with the plans and expectations. It needs long-run observation and analysis. However, according to the development trend of current economy, the combination of finance and Internet has been increasingly significant in economy and the two industries are the key areas of modern service. It also needs continuous tracking analysis about whether the primary stage of cluster development and the gradual transformation can be smoothly completed and accomplished or not.

During the process of writing the paper, in spite of large quantities of literatures having been collected, the incompletion of the statistics and inconsistent statistical caliber add obstacles for the data collection and selection. Scholars in the future are expected to analyze the cluster development by using more complete data. Valuable advice to this paper is welcomed. Academic research level can be lifted through more beneficial communications. This paper is not perfect now and needs refinement in the future, but I still feel honored to provide some perspectives for the successors

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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