An empirical study on China saving-city evaluation

The saving city (SC) evaluation is an important means to promote the construction process of saving city. According to the concept and characteristics of the SC, following the scientific, practical and operational principles, taking the present situation of our country into consideration, the paper firstly puts forward an evaluation index system for SC, which includes 4 levels, 3 subsystems and 25 variables; Secondly, using the multivariate statistical analysis theory, the paper sets up a comprehensive evaluation model based on the Factor Analysis method (FA) for the evaluation of SC; Thirdly, by means of SPSS software system, this paper makes an empirical study based on the actual data of 17 cities in some province. The result shows that: the index system and evaluation model have a good practicability and maneuverability. It will provide means for monitoring and evaluation of the construction of SC for the government and the relevant authorities.