关键词: 农业科技竞争力, 综合评价, 主成分分析, 聚类分析

Abstract:

Agricultural science and technology is a powerful driving force to promote transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. In recent years, the Chinese leaders have shown great concern on the innovation of agricultural science and technology and the upgrading of competitiveness in agricultural science and technology. Gansu Province located in the northwest region of China is actively carrying out the strategic task of developing modern agriculture, strengthening scientific and technological innovation capacity in rural areas, and improving the transformation rate of achievements gained in agricultural science and technology. According to the data of 12 prefecture-level cities and 2 autonomous prefectures in Gansu Province in agricultural science and technology in 2013, this paper established a comprehensive indicator system to evaluate the agricultural science and technology competitiveness. And through clustering analysis the paper divided these cities into 4 categories according to their similarities in competitiveness. The results showed that the level of agricultural science and technology competitiveness was positively correlated with the development level of total economy and agricultural economy in the region. There were gaps in the levels of agricultural science and technology development among those 4 groups. But there were also rooms for further development, which should not be overlooked. The paper provided policy suggestions for improving the competitiveness in agricultural science and technology in Gansu Province. All these would play a demonstration role for other provinces and cities in western regions of China to upgrade competitiveness in agricultural science and technology.

Key words: agricultural science and technology competitiveness, comprehensive evaluation, principal components analysis, cluster analysis