The Theory of Analytic Hierarchy Process Applied with Comprehensive Performance Evaluation in China Ceramic Manufacturing Cluster

The performance of the ceramic industrial clusters is urgently a subject to be studied. There are eight ceramic industrial clusters in China such as Foshan and Chaozhou of Guangdong province, Dehua of Fujian province, Liling of Hunan province, Jingdezhen of Jiangxi province, Yixing of Jiangsu province, Zibo of Shandong province and Tangshan of Hebei which are chosen as samples. Analytic hierarchy process was used for the comprehensive performance evaluation of Chinese ceramic industrial clusters. The paper firstly built a performance evaluation index system of ceramic industrial clusters based on the concept of the performance of ceramic industrial cluster; Then the method of analytic hierarchy process was used, through three major steps such as the weighting of indexes of performance evaluation were obtained, the non-dimensionalization of evaluation index values and the calculation of comprehensive evaluation values, and we get the comprehensive evaluation results of the performance of ceramic industry clusters. The synthetic weights of the evaluation index system reflected the ranking of significance of the factors which influence the performance of ceramic industrial clusters, and results of the performance evaluation prove the effectiveness of the evaluation.