Economic efficiency evaluation of national economic development zones based on DEA and SFA

Considering comprehensively of the actual development of the national economic and technological development zones in China and the availability of the evaluation data, the paper used data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to evaluate the economic efficiency of China's national development zones with different input and output indicators. The article had come up the economic efficiency ranking of different national economic development zones. Finally, the results of analysis is evaluated detailed and the strategies and recommendations of increasing the efficiency of economic and technological development zones are proposed.