A Study On Industrial Layout And Logistics Industry Development In The Economics Zone On The West Coast Of Taiwan Straits

The definition of logistics, which is given by the State Bureau of Quality and Technology Control on August 1st 2001 in"The national standard terms on logistics of the People's Republic Of China", is explained as"the systematic combination of transportation, storage, loading and unloading, shipment, packaging, manufacturing, portioned delivery and information management in the whole procedure of transferring the products from the point of origin to the origin of consumption."The development of modern logistics has gradually become one of the important scale to measure the modernized degree and comprehensive competitive power of a region or a country. In domestic and foreign theories, agreement has not yet been made on whether the logistics is an industry. But with the development of logistics from microscopic to mediumscopic level, the formulation which takes logistics as an industry has become the necessity of development of practice and theoretical research. The logistics industry which is both technology-intensive and labor-intensive, has the trans-regional, trans-professional and trans-departmental characteristics which belong to the Third Industry. Whether logistics industry can be accepted as an independent industry in our national economic management, its impetus on economic increase, especially on regional economic growth and regional industrial cooperation, is of great importance that cannot be replaced. Therefore, its basic function of guarantee cannot be neglected in the study of regional economy and industrial layout.In 2006,the 11^th five plan of People's Republic of China attached great importance to the Economic Zone on the West Coast of Taiwan Straits (Abbr. EZWCTS), and also made it as an important region which gets national strategy support. As the center of the EZWCTS, Fujian will promote the industrial structure optimization and regional coordination development, which should be supported by the logistics industry. Therefore, the research of logistics industries will be more practical significance.This thesis divides into six parts. The first chapter gives a brief introduction of research background and offers a summary of relevant study, proposing the significance and the direction of this thesis. Chapter Two gives an analysis of the regional economy development and industrial layout of the EZWCTS. Chapter Three gives an analysis of the promotion of logistics industry to regional economic increase and to industrial layout optimization. Chapter Four gives a statistical analysis of the current situation of logistics industry development of the EZWCTS. Chapter Five aims at the industrial layout and the logistics industry development of the EZWCTS and puts forward the author's own views. Chapter six draws a conclusion.In this thesis, the author takes qualitative analysis primarily, quantitative analysis as auxiliary, using the theory and the method of industrial economics, regional economics, modern logistics, mathematical statistic study and so on to discuss the relations between logistics industry development and the regional industry layout. Based on the result of nine cities'logistics industry research, the author has given some suggestions of industrial layout optimization and logistics industry development.