Research On The Development Trend And Spatial Distribution Of The Regional Logistics In The Yangtze River Delta

Since late 1990s, along with rapid development of the economic globalization process, competition between regions involved in global value chain has been increasingly fierce. And because of this, the process of regional cooperation and integration has also been further speeded up. Meanwhile, the overall global industrial structure transits gradually from an "industry-oriented economy" to "service-oriented economy". Consequently, producer services industries have gradually been rising for the theme of modern services. In this, the development level of modern logistics has become one of the important indicators or symbols of modernization of the country and the region. Specifically, in the 21st century, regional logistics is not only an inevitable demand in upgrading industries, but also the foundation of the regional industrial spatial organization.In practice, in recent years, almost all of the cities in the Yangtze River Delta have been scrambled to develop modern logistics. For this, great progress has been made in either infrastructural construction or application of the informational technology. However, an overall development planning in this area has been lacking, and unreasonable spatial allocation factors have restricted linkage development of the regional logistics. Based on the above discussion, by review of relative theories and using both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, this thesis explores the current situation, trend, layout of the situation, restricted linkage factors, evolution characteristics and problems of development of the regional logistics in the Yangtze River Delta. Finally, Several counter measures of optimization of the regional logistical networks has been put forward in order to promote rapid development and optimization of spatial distribution of the logistics in this region.Structurally, it contains four main parts. The first part is consists of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It mainly discusses the background, research significance, methodlogy, literature review, relative theories overview, and etc, and is actually guidelines and theoretical base of the thesis. The second part is Chapter 3. It probes into the notion and nature of regional logistics and regional economic interaction theories as well, particularly typical correlation between regional logistics and the regional economy in the Yangtze Delta. The third part consisting of Chapter 4 and 5 is the core of this thesis. Of which Chapter 4 analyses the current situation and spatial distribution of regional logistics of the Yangtze River Delta by discussion of the channel pattern, value scale and construction of the logistics parks. By using district and county as research unit, number of regional practitioners and volume of goods interflow as the attribute data, it also analyzes spatio-temporal evolutionary characteristics of the regional logistics. And the fifth chapter through summing up main problems in development of the logistics linkages on the base of the fourth chapter, puts forward suggestions. The fourth part, Chapter 6, concludes the treats with research deficiencies in this regard.The innovation of this thesis lays on: firstly, by discussing the regional logistics pattern and evolutionary characteristics from two dimensions of the time and space, and two research units of the district and county as well, it reveals the regional logistics development trend in a more comprehensive mode. Secondly, through exploring reasonable layout of modern logistics industries and countermeasures of the economic zone, it puts forward policy suggestions for logistical and further economic integrations in this region.