Research On The Relationship Between Port And City For Zhangjiangang

Port and city are interdependent and mutual-promoted for a port city. The development of port promotes the development of its city, on the versus, the flourish of a city drives the booming of its port. As the development of world economic globalization, taking the advantage of ports, port cities actively participate in the international labor division and cooperation, attracting talents, technology, funds, information and various productivity elements. Therefore, for port cities, the healthy development between port and city is playing a more and more important role in pushing their economic development and enhancing their regional strategic position. The healthy development between port and city is essentially the port city's optimized industry development and the harmonious development between its living and ecological environment space. How to establish a rational industry space and an agreeable ecological space comes to be the starting point of the study on the relationship between port and city for this paper.On the basis of a systematic research on the related theories of relationship between port and city and important development laws of port cities, from the perspective of functional and spatial relationship between port and city, this paper summarizes the characteristics of each developing stage of the relationship between port and city, elaborates industrial chain and spatial chain are the two critical motivation factors for the evaluation relationship between port and city. The Relationship between Port and City for Zhangjiagang experienced the establishment, free trade zone and free trade port zone three developing stages, in the meanwhile, zhangjiagang is eventually evaluating from single-core city into a dual-core city. On the whole, the port and zhangjiagang city functionally promote each other and spatially mutual expand. The relationship between port and city is confronted with transition.Optimized development of industry alongside the port, reasonable allocation of bank resources, smooth channel of port decentralization, rational spatial layout between port and city and the coverage of port hinterland are the main characteristics of optimized development relationship between port and city. In view of international successful experiences of optimized development relationship between port and city, this paper summarizes that optimized development between port and city is mainly the process of interaction between port industry and city industry and the spatial coordination between port and city. From regional linkage, industry optimization, reasonable port city layout and comprehensive competitiveness enhancement four aspects, this paper raises the specific measures of optimized development between port and city for zhangjiagang.