The Wholesale Market In Guangzhou City Development Characteristics And Spatial Distribution

The wholesale market in this study refers to physical transaction places in the main formof wholesale invested by the government or individual to locate and construct. As the carrierof the main space of the wholesale industry，the development of wholesale market is animportant manifestation of the flow capacity of a region， it can influence the size andefficiency of the circulation of commodities，related to the prosperity of the city. Firstly，thisarticle analyzes the characteristics of the wholesale market and its importance in thecirculation and function，as well as the concepts and definition about the wholesale marketbetween retail trade and logistics industry， the physical market and intangible market.Secondly，taking Guangzhou for an example to do the empirical research，this paper studiesthe current situation， development strategies，location and distribution of the wholesalemarket， and then puts forward the planning assumptions on it of Guangzhou City.The study has found that the wholesale market in Guangzhou mainly distributed in threelayered structure， the city traffic has obvious impact on their distribution. The wholesalemarket in Guangzhou has several problems at present: lacking overall planning as the innerlayer are actually becoming "non-market city "and the outer layer are " non-city market"，disordered development， serious homogenization and duplicate construction， singlefunction， inadequate management mechanisms and so on. Considering the policy andplanning related to wholesale market in Guangzhou， regional development conditions andthe developing trends of the wholesale market itself， combined with some typical casesstudy， the paper put forward the development goals and four development strategies aboutthe wholesale market in Guangzhou， so as to achieve “superior inside， strong in middle，associated outside”. Finally， through analyzing the formation mechanism， spatialdistribution characteristics， influencing factors of the wholesale market， developingcharacteristics and requirements of the wholesale markets in different layer of GuangzhouCity， the paper raises the new distribution principles and location requirements of thewholesale market in Guangzhou City， and envisages new wholesale market park locationsite.