國際競爭力是在全球化趨勢下，各國面臨機會與挑戰的回應能 力，亦為一國創造及累積國民財富的綜合能力。1999 年瑞士國際管理 發展學院公佈了一份世界競爭力年報，分八項因素，共計288個指標， 對 47 個國家加以評比。中國大陸在八項因素的評比中以基礎建設最不 具競爭力，金融體系及企業管理也表現不佳。評比最具競爭力的是經 濟實力；其次是政府管理能力，惟此二項均有退步，而中國大陸國民 素質及國際化程度則有所提升。

International competitiveness is aimed at assessing the degree to which a nation is capable of sustaining its enterprises' competitiveness to create and to accumulate wealth. The data from which this article is derived is The World Competitiveness Yearbook, which compared 47 industrialized and emerging economics according to 288 different criteria, grouped into eight competitiveness input factors. In regard to the following factors: infrasture, finance and management, Mainland China performed poorly, while regarding domestic economy and ability to govern, it performed strongly, It is to be noted that there had been an apparent upgrading of citizen's quality and degree of internationalization.