Hengyang City Green Logistics System

Along with the development of the market economy, the influence of the logistics upon the economic activities is increasing significantly. It arouses much attention of people and becomes the most important competition realm. But with the worsening of the environment and the increasing want of natural resource, more and more attention is paid on its utilization ratio to cut down the social cost in economic development. Such endeavor promoted the substitution of the traditional logistics for the green logistics which target is to reduce pollutant emissions and resource consumption. Green logistics is a kind of green activity aiming at sustainable developments and permeating into the field of logistics. At present, green logistics is still a totally new concept lacking mature theoretical system to support. But the social and economic value it having showed us is great.This paper takes the case of Hengyang City, studies the construction of the green logistics system from the perspective of sustainable development strategy. In the beginning, the thesis introduces related theory of green logistics, analyzes the importance of the green logistics as to sustainable development, and concludes that the establishment of the green logistics system for present high-speed economic development is needed. Afterwards by analyzing geographical location,economic together with social development, demonstrates that the basic condition of developing modern logistics in Hengyang City is complete, states it's status and problems, on this basis, proposes the Hengyang city development ideas of the logistics. It also discusses the Hengyang City's environmental impact of logistics from the aspect of the relationship between the logistics and the environment, and then builds an integrated,three-dimensional green logistics system model in Hengyang City and describes its structure and characteristics. In the end, the system model is applied to reality, the implementation of the green logistics system in Hengyang city from the construction of infrastructure,basic services platform,application platform and the public policies and regulations is discussed.