Measurement and Evaluation of the Business Environment in Large and Medium-Sized Cities in China

Abstract

The comprehensive development level of the business environment reflects the quality of a region’s economic development, and a good business environment will give a city a strong vitality. This paper uses the entropy method to measure and evaluate the business environment of 106 large and medium-sized cities in China from 2017 to 2021. The results show that: From the spatial point of view, the business environment index of China’s cities shows a gradually decreasing pattern from east to west and from south to north. The balance of the business environment of large and medium-sized cities in China is divided into four levels according to the standard deviation of the ranking of each sub-index. The greater the standard deviation, the more unbalanced the overall development of the business environment in the region. Finally, this paper put forward countermeasures and suggestions to further optimize the business environment.