The analysis on influence of World Expo to major economic indicators of Shanghai

摘要

World Expo 2010 has been hold successfully in Shanghai, China, which became an important promotion to economic development of Shanghai. This paper quantitatively analyzes economic input and output indicators of Shanghai under the influence of the World Expo to make an objective evaluation. Using C-D production function and other models to measure related economic indicators under the influence of non-Expo from 2003 to 2009, we draw a conclusion that the World Expo promote average annual growth rate of capital input to increase by 1.90%, labor input to increase by 3.10%, and science and technology progress to increase by 1.15%. The growths of these three input indicators contribute to the progress of average annual growth rate of output indicator by 3.80%. Besides, comparing the preparatory period of World Expo with the before, the paper obtains that the average annual growth rates of the other three indicators have improved significantly except the science and technology progress indicator.