Xiamen And Kaohsiung Port-city Economic Development Cooperation Research

In the view of the situation of the global economy, the whole world has witnessed that economic integration and regionalization become the trend of the age, and developing self-strength and promoting self-competitiveness through the way of cooperation become the inevitable choice for economic entities, which also put a crucial impact on both cities of Xianmen and Kaohsiung. However in fact, the economic region in west side of the Taiwan Strait where Xiamen City lies in is a comparatively weaker one in inshore economic regions in Mainland China. Faced with the competition and challenges from the ports and cities around, Xiamen is being in a danger of being marginalized, and for the Kaohsiung, the strength, the speed of the economic development and the place of the port have declined in recent years, not as the development of Taipei City. If the two cities win the goal of the conformity in port-city economic resources to achieve the combining and interactional development, they could get advantages to make a breakthrough to obtain a larger developing room to have the"win-win"ending. From the angle of the cross-strait relations, the further interactional cooperation between the two cities can be regarded as a"testing sample"for the cross-strait interactional cooperation in order to establish an example and a solid foundation for future all-around"direct flight"and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait.Based on the concerned theories of the competition and cooperation in the regional economy, the essay will use the method of SWOT to analyze the current situation of the port-city economic development in Xiamen and Kaohsiung from three angles of the port economy, city economy and port-city economy and in the meanwhile, give a demonstration on problems in the port-city economic development of two cities as well as challenges and opportunities that they are faced with in the future by the way of transverse contrast with the ports and cities around.Further more, the essay will probe into the cooperation between Xiamen and Kaohsiung in the port-city economy from aspects of the necessity, feasibility, contents and strategies of the cooperative development.Finally, the essay will come to a conclusion that (1) there will be a larger room of the economic cooperation between Xiamen and Kaohsiung in the port-city economy, and two cities will get more cooperative interests than competitive interests; (2) it is a requirement of the economic globalization and regional development to achieve the cooperative development between two cities by the principle of predominant assistance, which is very necessary, feasible and imperious for the sustainable development of two cities in the port-city economy; (3) it is very important for two cities to seek the developing strategies in the port-city economy and propel the trade and economic cooperation between them objectively.