Abstract: The countryside in China stands weakly at all aspects especially in the central and west rural regions. We must realize the importance as how to develope the competitiveness in the region after being a member of WTO. This paper attempts to build a theory system of country competitiveness through probing into its basic theory and properties. And then we conceive its index system. Ultimatly, we analyse the practice meaning of countryside with some cases. Hunan Province is examined for its central section in the third stage of the evolvement of district interspace fabric. In other words, the development of Hunan is from pooling to dispersing. The country is an object for citifying. And Hunan is in the key status of joining with the social and economic development of the east and west. So all the reasons must be considered with the view of the central country competitiveness. By testing hypothesis, we analyse the practicality and significance of the competitiveness evaluation system, using a great deal of data to stand the country competitiveness of Hunan Province and China in the lines. The gap of the different rural areas in Hunan and the disparity of the provinces were observed. A new path of consideration on development stratagem of China country area, from the point of view of competitiveness is proposed. We also discuss the development stratagy of China country area in the range of the competitiveness in the world.

Key words: country competitiveness, enhance, WTO, sustainable competitiveness, Hunan Province