Zhejiang Province Port Industrial Cluster Development Research

From the end of 20^th century, industry cluster has developed into a characteristic way of economic organization in the world economy and becomes the highlight of the regional economics research. The industry cluster theory describes a population of geographically concentrated and mutually related business units, associations and public (-private) organizations centering on a distinctive economic specialization. The enterprises in the cluster cooperate with each other and reach the economics of scale and the economics of range. This could lead to the effect of spillover and push the economic development of the region and the whole country. Ports are the leading areas of the economic development of region and country, so the waterfront area could attract the relative industries to agglomerate around with the condition of geographical advantage and maritime transportation advantage, and then get fast economic growth. The innovation of this thesis is to combine the industry cluster theory and development of port-related industry, and apply it to empirical research to analyze the port-related industry cluster development of Zhejiang Province of China.At the beginning of the thesis, industry cluster theory, the meanings and the characters of port-related industry are introduced and the possibility of combining the two aspects is analyzed. Secondary, port-related industry cluster is analyzed in the background of region economics and industrial economics. Then through the analyzing of the examples of successful port-related industry clusters abroad, the key points of port-related industry cluster are analyzed. The second half of the thesis is the analysis of port-related industry cluster development of Zhejiang Province. Through the researching of the ports and port-related industry of Zhejiang Province, the main industries of the cluster and the development orientation are summarized and the suggestions to the problems in the cluster...