ABSTRACT
To achieve sustainable development, Shanghai now is facing an important task of
changing its mode of economic growth after rapid development of some years.
According to the general law of industries evolution and the develop experience of
other international metropolis, it can effectively promote the optimization and
upgrading of industrial structure, improve the urban grade and functions and achieving
sustainable development by developing headquarter economy and modern service
industry. Though headquarter economy and modern service industry in Shanghai has
obtained certain achievement, in general terms, it still in the early stage, and it will
contribute to the development of headquarter economy and modern service industry in
Shanghai through in-depth study of this issue.
Base on the reviews of the study on headquarter economy and modern service
industry by domestic and foreign scholars, firstly ,this paper synthetically analyses the
relationship between headquarter economy and modern service industry, then do a
regression analysis on headquarter economy and modern service industry by using
relevant data of Hong Kong, the results not only validate the close relations between
headquarter economy and modern service industry, but also summarized some
successful experience and mode of developing them. At the last, this paper analyses the
status, causes, advantages, as well as the existing problems of headquarter economy
and modern service industry in Shanghai, and put forward some corresponding
countermeasures and suggestions by learning from the experiences of Hong Kong.
Through this paper, it can be found that there are some problems such as
insufficient numbers of headquarters, a relatively low-level of headquarters, a
relatively simply functions of headquarters, not aimed at attracting headquarters in the
development of headquarter economy of Shanghai, the driving effect does not fully
exert; similarly, there are some problems exist in the development of modern service
industry, such as less competitive, general monopoly, lack of comprehensive laws and
regulations, credit system deficiencies, shortage of high-quality personnel, so it can not
provide the corresponding services which need for developing headquarter economy
conveniently and rapidly, make against to the rapid development of headquarter
economy.
Keywords: Headquarter Economy,Modern Service Industry,
Countermeasures and Suggestions