Research On The Evolution Of Regional Port Group

With the rapid development of the economy of globalization and regionalization, the development of anything is no longer isolated, and the development of port is without exception, so the agglomeration and clustering development of port has become an irresistible trend. At present, many regional port groups have been formed in lots of countries and regions all over the world. According to the development practice of these regional port groups, we can know that breaking up the administrative limits, integrating the factors of regional ports, and increasing cooperation with other ports in the regional group, all of the above could promote the common development and strengthen the overall competitiveness of regional port group. Meanwhile, the economic prosperity of port group leads the economic development of hinterlands, which brings about new driving forces and opportunities for the economic development of the entire region.Round Bohai Sea region is the area along the whole Bohai and parts of the Yellow Sea, and it located in northern of China along the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. Round Bohai Sea region has long history of port development, and there are more than sixty ports in this region. And now Round Bohai Sea port group has become the most concentrated regional port group in Chinese by long evolutionary development, and is critical for the development strategy of china's foreign economic relations. Currently, many problems hinder the development of Round Bohai Sea port group, including port functions are not definite, expanding ports with blindness and lacking cooperation between big ports. So integrating the port resources and intensifying coordination and cooperation are important to the development of Round Bohai Sea port group.This paper studies regional port group by evolution theory, and analyzes the history, present situation and development trends through a new perspective, and also concludes the evolution law, evolution models and dynamic mechanism of regional port group. It makes demonstration analysis about Round Bohai Sea port group, summarizes its evolution path, and analyzes internal and external conditions for this evolution path. On this basis, this paper forecasts future trend of Round Bohai Sea port group, and puts forward many constructive plans and suggestions to promote its coordinated development.Firstly, this paper summarizes the theories related to the research on evolution of regional port group, including the origin, formation and development of evolutionary economics theory, and the relative concepts and theory about regional port group.Secondly, this paper analyzes European port group, New York-New Jersey port and Tonkin Bay port group, summarizes their development experience, and then reaches the conclusion that breaking up the administrative limits, integrating the factors of regional ports, as well as increasing cooperation between ports is the common way for the development of regional port group all over the world.Thirdly, this paper studied general law of the evolution of regional port group. It concludes the evolution law, evolution models and dynamic mechanism of regional port group. Building the evolutionary game model of regional port group, it makes dynamic analysis for the competition and cooperation in the course of evolution of regional port group.Finally, this paper takes Round Bohai Sea port group as the empirical research object, analyzes the evolution path of Round Bohai Sea port group, and analyzes internal and external conditions for this evolution path. It points out the problems hindering the development of Round Bohai Sea port group and puts forward many constructive plans and suggestions to promote its scientific development.