Urban Economic Development and Multinational Corporations in Western City of China under Globalization

The analysis of the relationship between urban economic development and multinational corporations in western China shows that: investment for multinational corporations in western region is dominated by southwest cities, that cities in Guangxi take up the highest proportion, whereas amounts for foreign direct investment in Chongqing and Chengdu take up the largest parts. On the whole, investment itself have feature of agglomeration, cities where multinational corporations have a high emphasis on foreign direct investment and its speed of economic growth is relatively higher than that of multinational corporations with low emphasis on foreign direct investment.