Research on Evaluation of Comprehensive Competitiveness of Marine Economy in Coastal Provinces of China

Abstract

On the basis of statistics and analysis of the overall development of China's marine economy, this study analyzes the main factors affecting the comprehensive competitiveness of marine economy from four aspects, marine resource endowment, marine economy development level, local macro-environment of marine economic development, and marine environmental protection capability. Constructing the comprehensive competitiveness index system of China's coastal provinces, which includes 4 second-level indicators, 12 third-level indicators and 50 fourth-level indicators. Meanwhile, using hierarchical analysis, equal weighting method, entropy method to measure the weight of indicators at all levels. Conclusions of this study show that the rank of comprehensive competitiveness of coastal provinces is stable, the level of marine economy development is the most important factor to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of marine economy, the strength of marine science and technology and the level of marine industry production are the main factors to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of marine economy by analyse the data from 2002-2017.