| Seen from the range of the whole world, there is always an important shipping center as a support for a region where its social economy and shipping industry is relatively developed, meanwhile a shipping center plays important role in promoting the economic development for a country or an area. There are more than10shipping centers built by the nation or local provinces since our country had proposed to build Shanghai international shipping center in1995. Some of the shipping centers have been defined as international or regional center, some of them are located on coastal or inland and some of them are comprehensive or basic shipping ports in function. The various shipping centers mentioned above have been beyond the meaning of shipping center we used to understand, thus it is necessary for us to recognize shipping center again in a theoretical sense and practice combination. When the shipping centers are seeking to achieve its development goals, how to survive and develop with the limited resources in the fierce competitive environment is a problem that all the shipping centers have to confront. Although the formation and development of the shipping center needs the supports from the government and other external forces, in terms of development evolution of shipping center from the whole historical process, there is no doubt that the development of shipping center has an inner strength as the basic driving force, and the inner strength is also the inner base which make the external strength working better. Therefore, the core task in this paper is to seek for a strong, sustainable and endogenous development momentum which is named as "Auto-animato ability".In this paper, some research work for the core task has been carried out as follows.1) As the word "shipping center" is extended its using in practice, it is redefined according to the extended connotation of shipping center. Starting from the limits of the auto-animato ability theory of Yifu Lin in this paper, a new definition to "Auto-animato ability" has been given out by the analysis method of layer upon layer promotion to introduce the autopoiesis theory and self-organization theory. Based on the above theory, the new definition of "Auto-animato ability" for shipping center is proposed. In order to overcome the disadvantages of insufficient focus of "Auto-animato ability" on the geographical environment and natural resources, this study analyzes the composition of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability from the perspective of human geography and builds the system framework of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability. The diamond model of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability is posited in the framework as well. This paper analyzes the coupling relationship between shipping industrial cluster and the auto-animato ability of shipping center. This paper also analyzes the related mechanism between intergenerational evolution and auto-animato ability of the shipping center, and builds the intergenerational dynamic evolution model of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability.2) This study demonstrates the shipping center is a complex adaptive system by judgment standard of complex adaptive system, defines the emergence of auto-animato ability caused by complex adaptive of the shipping center, and describes the emergence phenomenon and the general characteristics of the emergence of the shipping center. The emergence is a macroscopic property which displays from the microcosmic body. By analyzing and confirming the types of the microcosmic body of the shipping center, the emergence conceptual model is built based on the macroscopic analysis of mathematic analysis method. This model provides basic ideas for the simulation of emergence. The study uses Multitheoretical perspectives such as comparative advantage in resource endowment, the transaction efficiency and the economies of scale to demonstrate the mechanism of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability emergence, which lay theoretical basis for emergent simulation modeling.3) This study proves that the shipping center is an autopoiesis system through the two notions:"operation" and "communication" and tests the power law distribution of hierarchical structure of the port system from the perspective of balance of supply and demand. Besides, the study builds the dynamic space model of factors aggregation and stimulates auto-animato ability emergence which formed in the process of self-organization of the shipping center by using the NetLogo4.0.5. Then, the influence factors of the shipping center’s auto-animato ability emergence are analyzed according to the results of simulation experiment. 4) To analyze the comparative advantage of developing the shipping center in Wuhan, the study takes the construction of the shipping center of the middle of Yangtze River in Wuhan as a practical example. The study analyzes the current situation of factors aggregation and the spatial agglomeration characteristics of Wuhan shipping industrial cluster from the aspects of basic shipping industry, shipping service industry, the top or intelligent shipping service industry and other likewise. Problems that existing in the development of Wuhan shipping industry cluster are pointed out. Index system is built for measuring the ranking of the port cities near the middle of Yangtze River. Meanwhile this study analyzes the fractal features and evolution of power regularities and determines the auto-animato ability of Wuhan shipping center. The study suggests that the Wuhan shipping center should take some actions such as regular the inner mechanism and improve the external environment etc. to cultivate and enhance its auto-animato ability.In this paper, it’s a valuable attempt to research by linking the auto-animato ability and the shipping center together form the perspective of shipping industry cluster. This study is not only a beneficial supplement to port economy and regional economy theory, but also an expansion to the object of auto-animato ability theory study. Some of views and conclusions in this paper have an important practical significance to the construction and self-sustainable development of the shipping center. |
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