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| STUDY ON URBAN COMPETITION STRATEGY BASED ON THE THEORY OF NICHE |
| CHEN Shao-yuan1,2,3, LIN Jian-ping2, YANG Li-juan1,2,3, ZHANG Hong-ou2 |
1. South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou 510301, China;
2. Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, china;
3. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China |
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Abstract The former study on the city competition is often in a market economy respect, and in order to win the city competitions, some principles and methods of cooperation management are applied in the city operations. Today's city is an organism and its inner order is coherent to that of life-forms. Therefore, if using the theories and methods of bionomics to explain the competitions among cities, and survey the processions of city developments in every stages and external environment changes in an eco-intelligent respect as well as the mutual relations between cities and its inhabit external environment system, then it'll lead us to find more suitable and useful competition ideas and strategies. The niche separating strategy is that according to the combination of its own resources and its external environments, in the work dividing of countries or regions, the city can make niche differences with its competitors and carry out the relevant city functions to develop its economy. In the furious competition, the eco-intelligent city should try to improve its ability of learning, organizing and creating, and catch the potential competition niche hiding in the changing external environment, basing on these factors, in order to improve its ability of process and adapt to the potential competition niche the city should take the altering "change" (revolution or innovation) of city system, culture, industry structure and environment for investments, and finally transfer these into real competition niche and access the market as soon as possible, which is the niche-altering strategy. Niche-enlarging strategy of the city is refer to that more than two cities form the system of "ordered structure, implemented function, optimized in tegration and shared co-exist" through work dividing or resources sharing to improve the whole city group ability to absorb, control, transfer and use of knowledge, technology, human resources and such key resource, to extend the competition niche of the city group, and basing on the healthy development of one independent city to realize the evolution of the city group.
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Received: 30 November 2004
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2006, Vol. 21 
