Abstract:

The relationship between ecological resources and economic development has been one of the hot spots,which always attracts attention of the human society.Ecological competitiveness,which reflects the capacity of ecological resources to support social and economic sustainable development,is the cornerstone of the social and economic development.In accordance with the theory of sustainable development,this article built the “Ecological Competitiveness” system of evaluation index including 3 secondclass indicators (ecological state,ecoenvironmental stress and initiative coordination ability) by adapting and consulting ecological environment index system and regional competitiveness index system.In this study,principal component analysis method and arithmetic average method were used to evaluate systematically the ecological competitiveness of the 17 municipal jurisdictions of Anhui Province,and further to give the ranking list of the ecological competitiveness.This study explored preliminarily the methodology of using ecological competitiveness as evaluation index system.Our conclusions could provide the cities of Anhui Province with scientific basis and decision references about ecological construction and economic development