Horgos Port In Xinjiang Economic Research

Since reform and opening up, especially in recent years, Korgas port is overall rapid economic development. Because of its unique geographical advantages, opening to the expanding gradually,optimizing the trade structure. What’s more, it led to the development of the export-processing, the finance and the tourism. However, there are some problems, such as small scale, low grade, basis of vulnerability, development of extensive, etc.Take the trade for example,it is single irrational structure, import resources-energy raw materials, and the export of low-end products to meet consumers. Processing industry and tourism industry are still initial stage. The economy structure of Korgas Port is unreasoned, infrastructure backwardness and inadequate functions are obvious.In all, these problems block the Korgas’ transformation and upgrading.Korgas Port is more important in position and effect. It depends on the central Xinjiang Economic Forund and as National Economic and Development Zone by state council2011, which promulgate some policies about finance, tax, project, functions and so on. States in<Several Opinions of the State Council on the support of the Kashgar Horgos Economic Development Zone Construction>(state council [2011] Num.33) says clearly that Korgas as an important window for China’s opening to the west and promoting leap-forward development of new economic growth points in Xinjiang to promote’open land’and’sea open’ and opening up to the new pattern. Especially, Korgas is the bridgehead for the part in our country of New Eurasian Continental Bridge. It is located at Longhai-Lanxin Economic Zone and the central part of Central Asia. So it has the advantages in contacting with domestic coastal cities, mature market and the nations in Central Asia to establish links, conducive to the promotion of domestic and foreign economic flows and accumulation of elements. All in all, Korgas achieves leap-forward development usher in new opportunities.The Korgas Port has the advantage in contacting’two resources’and’two markets’, natural resources, cultural advantages, the policy superiority form the central government and the local government.On the opposite side, it is far away from the developed districts of China,high cost in transport and logistics, weakness in foundation, etc. Faced with new opportunities and challenges, Korgas Port needs to be science based on a global and long-term positioning, high starting point for planning port layout and development direction in the future. Paying more attention this basic function of port clearance, creating a good environment clearance.lt is through cross-regional customs cooperation, standardization of market management and informatization construction, speeding up the’big clearance’construction. It is through the measures, such as making the further development of opening up, leading enterprises open up the high-end market of Central Asia, changing the trade patterns and product structure of import and export goods, improving the export proportion added value of the goods and deep processing of high-tech content products, upgrading the scale and the level of foreign trade. Speeding up with developed domestic market links, putting more functions on the port, increasing the investment efforts,accepting the industrial transfer of the developed coastal areas, including the technology, brand, market. What’s more, fostering stronger financial, tourism and other service industries, formed the new supporting industrial system of the Korgas Port.