Evaluation of the Quality of Economic Development in Anhui Province Based on Entropy-TOPSIS Model

Abstract

The quality of economic development is a key topic in economics research and an important measure of the merits of economic and social development. This paper takes the economic development quality of cities in Anhui Province as the research object, constructs the regional economic development evaluation index system, and uses the entropy-TOPSIS method to make a comprehensive evaluation of the economic development quality of cities in Anhui Province from 2011 to 2020. On this basis, this paper ranks the economic development quality of various cities in Anhui Province and develops spatial and temporal evolution analysis, and obtains the following conclusions: (1) The overall level of economic development quality in Anhui Province is low and has not yet been able to achieve high quality development, and there is much room for improving the economic development quality of local cities; (2) The imbalance of economic development quality among local cities in Anhui Province is serious, with the economic development quality in the east > west of the province, decreasing from the central region centered on Hefei to the north and south, and the difference of development level in the region is large and shows a trend of expansion. Therefore, in the new development stage, cities in Anhui province should propose development strategies according to local conditions, fully integrate into the Yangtze River Delta city cluster, and promote the inflow of production factors and industrial adjustment, so as to achieve high-quality economic development.