A Study On Coordinated Development Of The Yangtze River Detla Potr Cluster

Modern port is a vital important fundamental facility leading a country orregion joining economic globalization and maintaining the leadership ininternational competition. Due to the mutual dependence and promotionbetween port and trade, finance, manufacturing, ports have always beentreated as the growing point of regional economics, the basis and leadingindustry of national economic development, important support of nationaleconomic regular operation and people's normal life, which also play animportant role in economic and social development.The Yangtze River Delta ports group is the most densely distributed andlargest cargo throughput port of the biggest five ports group in currentdomestic coastal port groups. This port group's operation and development isextremely important for our country's economic and social development,country security, especially for Yangtze River Delta. However, during recentyears due to regional protectionism and individual development status, eachport considers their own benefit when developing, which causes disorderlycompetition, blind expansion of scale, driving down service prices, investmentwaste and inefficient operation.From the current situation, the internal disorder among ports mainlyexpresses in the following points: the first one is the ports structurecontradiction, such as the medium-small berths account for 85%, the largescale professional container, ores, crude oil are insufficient; the second one isthe ports'repeated construction. Ports in some region develop blindly,construct too densely, economic hinterland overlaps, ports'function similar.What's more, some general bulk cargos are obviously excessive and low-levelrepeated construction situation is serious, especially the medium-small sizedports'scale expansion, which causes the capability excessive, waste, loss andwill bring health security problem; the third one is the port position is not clear.Some effective organization should be founded to plan the function andposition for each port in order to avoid the difference between regional andoverall environment. All the ports in the same ports group can't form into mutual complementary advantages and rational distribution in hardwarefacilities as new route's planning, container port construction, and softwareenvironment as information sharing, experience reference because of differenteconomic benefit, which will lead to the whole competitiveness of the portsgroup; the fourth one is the disordered competition is becoming serious. Theregional protectionism of ports causes unhealthy cutting down prices, gaininglittle return from large investment, obtaining decreasing economic benefit forresource competition, which hampers the port enterprises'development. So, ithas important theory and practical meaning to study the ports'coordinatedevelopment and governance mechanism.This paper focuses on the analysis and design of overall marketcompetition mechanism, studies the management measures of the unhealthycompetition phenomenon inner ports group from the region ports group pointof view, in order to design a reasonable competition mechanism scientifically tooptimize the internal competition environment of ports group, to enable theports management to obtain the maximum social and economic benefit, toachieve the social resource optimization configuration and ports coordinationdevelopment.This paper firstly reviews and summarizes the port economic theory, porttheory division of work, government management and market failure theory,competition cooperation theory and the other related theories'developmentand main research situation. Then it introduces the primary situation of thedomestic and international main ports groups'development. Afterwards itemphasizes the Yangtze River Delta ports'evolve history, current developmentsituation and the main ports in this region, especially the analysis on attractionand radiation situation between Shanghai international shipping center and theother ports.This paper focuses on the rational division of work and scientific positionfor Yangtze River Delta ports and the unhealthy competition problemsemerged in the coordination development whose main performances are alsoconcluded and analyzed in this paper. The core of this paper is to scientificallydesign the unhealthy competition management mechanism of Yangtze RiverDelta, which includes the main variables of the unhealthy competition amongports, the management mechanism model of unhealthy competition among ports, the implementation measures of management mechanism. Thencorresponding suggestions are concluded to achieve the management policyof unhealthy ports competition mechanism.This paper raises the following suggestions:Benefits reward and punishment mechanism should be established,including coordinating the ports and regional policy objectively, solving the fairand balance problem in ports group development. During the adjustingprocess of ports policy, benefit sharing principle should always be complied toexert the characters of Yangtze River Delta region and share the benefitrationally. What's more, benefits reward and punishment mechanism shouldalso include new"benefit compensation mechanism"to rationally compensatethe lost benefit by standardized benefit transferring to achieve the integrationof fair and efficiency.Co-conference system should be established to form cooperationmechanism by managing and standardizing all the ports'managementbehavior. The co-conference participants should punish those ports who leadthe unhealthy competition firstly to avoid the rest of the ports'in this regionfollowing behavior. This part raises the effective condition model ofco-conference for the reference of regional macro administrators.Organized management should be developed due to the ports groupcoordination development is a systematic project including all different benefitsand relationships which are hard to be carried out without the centralgovernment and local government's coordination. The cooperation mechanismof Yangtze River Delta named"Interactive region and port, interactive port andport", should be perfected to exert the function of cooperation system inYangtze River Delta, to solve the cooperation and mutual benefit problem inports group management, and to form practical benefit allocation program.The management of coordination development and unhealthy competitionincludes a lot of very complicated problems, some of which have been existedfor a really long time and the internal and external causing factors are alsouncertain and hard to manipulate. So some analyses in this paper based ontheoretical research are partial and primary attempt resolve of this problemwhich requires being practically checked and further researched.