The Collaborative Growth Of Regional Logistics

China’s logistics development is still at an early stage, there exist a lot of problemsand a lot of hard-to-cure confusions as well as strange phenomenons in the process ofgrowth and development of the regional logistics, these problems reduce the logisticsspeed and logistics efficiency, thus hindering the development of regionallogistics.Obviously, there are many reasons for the above mentioned problems whichoccurred in the process of regional logistics development. However, the paper arguesthat the root cause of the problems mentioned above is in the two aspects, the one is thatthe government and related companies hold a lot of misunderstandings in recognizingthe regional logistics system, they do not grasp accurately the law of growth and stageof China’s regional logistics development and can’t act in accordance with the law ofgrowth of the regional logistics, the another one is that in the process of participation inregional logistics activities, the relevant bodies can’t co-operate and communicate verywell, which leads to a low level on internal and external coordination of the regionallogistics system, the collaborative effect is not significant, failed to fully play the duerole of regional logistics.In fact, there exist many differences in many aspects such as geographical location,resource endowments, the level of economic development, industrial structure, the levelof science and technology, human resources, government regulation and support effortsbetween the various areas of China, which leads to the big difference in growth leveland collaboration level of regional logistics all over the country. If these various regionswant to act in accordance with the growth law of the regional logistics, they must have ascientific evaluation on the growth level and the collaboration level of its regionallogistics, and have an objective understanding of the relationship between regionallogistics growth and regional logistics collaboration.Therefore, it is necessary from the regional level to consider macroscopically andholistically the collaborative growth of regional logistics. With the regional logisticspractice becomes increasingly rich, the regional logistics theory and practice hasadapted gradually to the practice, and provided strong theoretical support for it.Currently, the mainstream of theoretical studies of the regional logistics system hasshifted from the static research which mainly involves simple structure and spatiallayout optimization to the dynamic research which mainly involves developmentprocess and internal evolution mechanism. Collaborative research on regional logistics system is mostly focused on the qualitative analysis of regional logistics system synergyconnotation, regional logistics collaborative development model and strategy, there arevery little literatures which explore and study the collaborative mechanisms,collaborative growth, collaborative evaluation of regional logistics. combinedorganically regional logistics synergies with regional logistics growth, based on theregional logistics theory, the growth and evolution theory, the dissipative structurestheory, and synergetics theory, used integratedly the theories and methods of relateddisciplines, This paper analyzes the connotation of regional logistics growth andregional logistics collaboration, explores the law of regional logistics growth andconstructs collaborative growth mechanism of regional logistics. By empirical analysis,this paper evaluates the logistics synergy levels and growth levels of the six provinces incentral regional. Finally, for the regional logistics development status of Jiangxiprovince, this paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to enhance thedevelopment level of Jiangxi regional logistics. This study aims to further enrichregional logistics theory, so as to provide decision support for promoting the regionallogistics industrial structure adjustment and upgrading, regional logistics collaborativedevelopment and operational management, and so on. This paper mainly involves thefollowing research work:(1) The research on the growth evolution of the regional logistics system based onthe dissipative structures theory. This paper argues that the regional logistics system hasthe characteristics of a dissipative structure system, then this paper put forward thegrowth evolution entropy-changing model of the regional logistics system by improvingPrigogine’s entropy-changing model, and explains the law of growth evolution of theregional logistics system based on this model.(2) The research on the relationship between regional logistics collaboration andthe regional logistics growth. According to the co-evolution theory, this article analyzesthe relationship between the regional logistics collaboration and regional logisticsgrowth, then establishes a linear model of regional logistics collaborative growth andfurther proves that this model is correct by empirical research.(3) The research on the measurement and evaluation on collaboration level andgrowth level of the regional logistics system. This paper establishes collaborativegrowth mechanism model of regional logistics and its evaluation index system. On thisbasis, applies the order parameter method of system synergy degree to measure andcompare the collaborative level of the regional logistics in six central provinces; applies the comprehensive index evaluation method to measure and compare growth level ofthe regional logistics in six central provinces.(4) The research on the countermeasures to enhance the regional logistics growthlevel of Jiangxi. Based on the regional logistics collaborative growth linear model, ahorizontal comparison on the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi Province isconducted. The reason for the lag on the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi isanalyzed from the initial growth level and the collaborative effect of the regionallogistics. Finally, corresponding countermeasures on how to enhance the regionallogistics growth level of Jiangxi are proposed.Through the theoretical and empirical analysis, this paper gets the following mainconclusions:(1) RLS has conspicuous dissipative structure characteristics, its growth is adynamic process that all the elements are constantly enhancing, improving, developingand collaborating. Simultaneously, the growth of RLS is influenced by lots of combinedfactors, such as logistics infrastructure, informationization level, industrial organization,demand conditions, economic development level, policy environment, innovationsystem, quality of human resources and so on.(2) The regional logistics collaborative growth needs to establish the correspondingcollaborative mechanisms; the achievement of collaborative growth depends on the roleof the endogenous collaborative mechanisms and the exogenous collaborativemechanisms of RLS.(3) Regional logistics growth is closely related to regional logistics collaboration.Collaboration can promote growth, and Growth is the premise and foundation ofcollaboration. Numerically speaking, there exists a positive linear correlation betweenthem.(4) The weak logistics infrastructure and the poor collaborative effect is the mainreason why the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi is behind the other province inCentral China. In order to enhance the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi, therelated entities such as the government, the logistics enterprises need to work as one inmany ways.The following is the innovation and contribution of this paper:(1) The growth characteristics are analyzed of the four different stages of regionallogistics, Based on the entropy change model of regional logistics growth evolutionproposed in this paper, the evolution law of each growth stage is analyzed, which provides a new perspective for the study of regional logistics growth evolutionmechanism.(2) According to the theory of co-evolution, the relationship between the regionallogistics collaboration and the regional logistics growth is analyzed; the linear model ofregional logistics collaborative growth is established, furthermore, the model’s validityis demonstrated by empirical research, the positive linear correlation between theregional logistics growth and the regional logistics collaboration is made clear.(3) The collaborative growth mechanism model of regional logistics and itsevaluation index system are established. The empirical analysis results show that thereexist big differences on the collaborative level and growth level of the regional logisticsamong the six central provinces; furthermore, the difference on the collaborative level isthe direct cause of the difference on the growth level, this provides a new path toanalyze the growth countermeasures of regional logistics.(4) Based on the regional logistics collaborative growth linear model, a horizontalcomparison on the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi Province is conducted. Thereason for the lag on the regional logistics growth level of Jiangxi is analyzed from theinitial growth level and the collaborative effect of the regional logistics. Finally,corresponding countermeasures are proposed, this provides a reference value andsignificant guidance for the government, logistics companies, industrial and commercialenterprises when engaged in logistics decision-making, management and operationactivities.