Adaptability of Diamond Model for grassland agriculture competitiveness to cultivate of Sunan County

Sunan country is a Yugu Ethnic Minorities Autonomous County in Gansu Province which belongs to the minority areas of ecologically fragile and locates in the north of Qilian Mountains. It’s cultivation of the grassland agriculture sustainable competitiveness advantage has become a very important issue because it is the important ecological barrier of Hexi desert oasis and the main water conservation land. This study aims to analyze the applicability of Diamond Model in regional industry which diamond model was a typical paradigm to guide industry competitiveness cultivation. The applicability of diamond model from perspectives of diamond model elements and industry development was test using grassland agriculture of Sunan County as an example. The diamond model in guiding the industrial competitiveness cultivation failed because there were inherent shortcomings and limitations for the diamond model and the region’s eco-binding and industry characteristics. Therefore, the regional ecological environment was included into Porter Diamond Model as the third exogenous variables and the core position of the six elements in the model which was named with “regional ecological constraints diamond model” in line with micro-regional characteristics and industrial competitiveness essence. Based on this situation, the proper method which named with “competitiveness diamond model” was further pointed out and used in cultivating the industry competitiveness if the regional industry had the following characteristics: ecological fragile, ethnic minority, underdeveloped, constrained resources and environment, highly natural resources dependence, low level technology and constrained ecological environment. This model will achieve the outcomes of high value grassland agriculture upgrade and provide the reference for other highland pastoral areas development.