STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CENTRAL PLAIN CULTURE AND REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF HENAN
ZHAO Shu-ling1,2, DING Deng-shan1
1. Department of Urban and Recourses Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. College of Economy and Management, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453002, China
Abstract：With the speedy development of globalization, competition among states and regions is becoming increasingly fiercer. Making great efforts to promote its competitiveness becomes the most important task. Researches on the "State competitiveness" or "Regional competitiveness" provoke extensive interest of the world. More and more people have realized that regional culture is playing an important role in the regional competitiveness. Central Plain Culture is extensive and profound, which has long historical origins and had been exerted great influence on the development of economy in Henan, even on China. But it was gradually falling into decay because of economic and cultural centre moving to the southern China. After the People's Republic of China had been founded, especially after reform and opening, the Central Plain Culture came into renaissance. During the course of the modernization of Central Plain Culture, People in Central Plain succeeded to the excellent elements of the Central Plain Culture, endued it with modern equalities, and formed some active and enterprising cultural spirit. This spirit became strong psychic power to promote the development of economy in Henan province. However some inertia and locked effect caused by the negative factors of the Central Plain Culture brought adverse influence on regional competitiveness. This paper analyzed the meanings and the characteristics of Central Plain traditional Culture such as the orthodox and conservation thoughts, petty farmer consciousness, attached importance to agriculture and looked down business tradition, and so on. At last, some countermeasures and suggestion are given to re-energize the Central Plain Culture and to promote competitive ability of Henan province. It includes three parts, first, we must inherit the distillate of the Central Plain Culture, and syncretize it to the course of the globalization; second, innovative social cultural conditions must be fostered in order to promote conversion of the cultural conception; in the end, we should pay more attention to cultural construction and make great effort to build up a learning region.
赵淑玲, 丁登山. 中原文化与河南区域竞争力关系研究[J]. 人文地理, 2005, 20(1): 78-80,67.
ZHAO Shu-ling, DING Deng-shan. STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CENTRAL PLAIN CULTURE AND REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF HENAN. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2005, 20(1): 78-80,67.
