A Research On The Transformation Of Tianjin Port Bonded Area Towards Free Trade Zone

To expand the economic cooperation and the international trade, our country took the free trade zone as reference and established the first bonded area (Shanghai Waigaoqiao Bonded Area) in 1987. After years of development, now the bonded areas play significant roles in enhancing the level of opening-up, attracting the foreign investments and advanced technology, expanding the international trade and promoting the hinterland's economy. However, with the acceleration of the economic globalization, the bonded areas face the new challenges as follows: How can the bonded areas get tracked into the world economy in a quick and smooth way? How can the bonded areas keep enhancing the level of opening-up? How can the bonded area keep promoting the hinterland's economy? Generally speaking, to solve the above problems, the better way is to make the transformation from the bonded area to the free trade zone.This paper takes the Tianjin Port Bonded Area as the research object, and adopts the comparative analysis, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. On the contents of this paper, first it gives the comparison between the bonded area and the free trade zone. Secondly, it shows the basic situation and the development situation of the Tianjin Port Bonded Area. Thirdly, it analyzes the necessity, the feasibility and the problems of the transformation from Tianjin Port Bonded Area to free trade zone, then the target model of the free trade zone in the future. Last it gives the steps and the advices of the transformation from Tianjin port bonded area to free trade zone. This paper gives the conclusion as follows: Though there are some problems of Tianjin port bonded area's development, but it's ready for the transformation to the free trade zone. The function orientation should take the international logistics as the leading direction; the target management model should have three levels.