世界银行从2001年开始,用了两年时间对京、沪、穗、津、蓉五个城市做了大量的调研后,发布了《改善中国的投资环境》报告。该报告使用了“政府有效性”、“劳动力市场灵活性”等七项指标对五大城市的投资环境进行具体评价(各城市分项指标排名见图表1)。从评价结果看.各城市在不同方面都有它们的优势和不足。 就这一指标体系中最重要的分项指标“政府有效性”看(见图表2),广州表现 Since 2001, the World Bank has spent two years investigating a large number of cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Chengdu and released a report entitled “Improving the Investment Environment in China”. The report uses seven indicators such as “government effectiveness” and “labor market flexibility” to evaluate the investment environment of the five major cities (Figure 1 shows the breakdown of each city’s index). Judging from the evaluation results, cities have their strengths and weaknesses in different aspects. Regarding the “government effectiveness”, the most important sub-indicator in this indicator system (see Exhibit 2), Guangzhou Performance