Evaluation of the Business Environment and Countermeasures Research—Evidence from China's Port Cities along the Belt and Road
The development of port cities plays quite an important role in the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative.Optimizing the business environment is an effective measure to enhance the comprehensive strength of port cities and seize the develop-ment opportunities of the Belt and Road Initiative.In this paper,17 port cities are taken as the research object.Focusing on urban re-source endowment and functional orientation,this paper redefines and quantifies the business environment of port cities,then constructs an evaluation index system of business environment from five dimensions:economic and market environment,law and policy environ-ment,human resources and innovation environment,pollution control,and environmental governance.Based on this,the business envi-ronment scores of 17 port cities are calculated by adopting a subjective and objective combined method.In the end,the circumstances of the business environment and its temporal and spatial change trend are analyzed from the overall and individual perspectives,and rele-vant policy suggestions for port cities to optimize the business environment are given.
Belt and Road Initiativebusiness environmentport citiesindex system
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