The Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of Guangxi is the key area of the great development of Western Chi-na and a frontier area for opening up and cooperation with ASEAN countries. It is of great significance for our coun-try to implement the overall regional development strategy and the mutual benefit and win-win strategy. This study takes 6 cities in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of Guangxi as the research object,and uses the global principal component analysis to construct a reasonable measurement system of high-quality economic development and mea-sure the high-quality economic development level of each city from 2013 to 2022. The conclusions are as follows:from the perspective of comprehensive index scores and dynamic rankings,the high-quality economic development of all cities in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of Guangxi has been maintaining a steady growth but lacking in homo-geneity;from the perspective of subdivision index scores,the advantages and deficiencies varied from city to city,so there is a need to optimize the allocation of resources,exert advantages,address inadequacies,and gain new momen-tum. Based on this,this paper puts forward some suggestions to promote the high-quality economic development of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of Guangxi from three aspects:strengthening the leading role,improving the regional cooperation mechanism and giving full play to the synergy of different policies.
Beibu-Gulf Economic Zonehigh-quality developmentcoordinated developmentopening and developing