Exploring the Definition of National Economic Security and its Evaluation Index System

The outbreak of global financial crisis in 2008made it clear that it is very important and imperative to protect national economic security,whose definition needs to be reconsidered to establish reasonable evaluation index system.In this paper,we present a new definition of national economic security,which differentiates its concept from the concepts of national economic development,national economic stability,industry security,and regional economy security by comparing and illustrating the approaches of state theory,ability theory and process theory.According to our definition,national economic security refers to the status of no/low risks of a nation's economic strategy benefits,in which no serious harm is made to the nation's basic economic policies and its economic sovereignty and the factors that might cause the financial crisis are under control.We further propose a two-level evaluation index system and two weight formulas based on the new definition of national economic security.