Study On Coupling Mechanism Between Agricultural Product Export Trade And Logistics Of Shandong Province

Exports of agricultural products trade and logistics industry has maintained a rapid growth in Shandong Province during these years.However,faced with the complex circumstances and ever-changing market,the agriculture trade deficit occurs. So it has become the primary task to enhance the export competitiveness for Shandong agribusiness.The agribusiness is an industry value chain that covers agricultural trade system、logistics system and terminal consumers. The coupling level of the trade system and logistics system determines the efficiency of the value chain.It is necessary to study the coupling mechanism of the two elements and make comprehensive analysis on the coupling indexes so as to enhance the agricultural export competitiveness and at the same time provide decision-reference for government.The thesis firstly makes a literature review and points out the significance to study on the coupling mechanism of Shandong agriculture export trade and logistics system.Introduction is given of value chain theory,transaction costs theory and comparative advantage theory to support the research. Then the article describes the characteristics of the export trade of agricultural products in Shandong Province from the size of the export trade, trade commodity structure, trade market system.Following analysis of the status quo and the development of the logistics industry of agricultural products in Shandong Province is given. After that,the thesis describes the coupling mechanism between the agricultural product trade and logistics system in depth,along with qualitative analysis of the coupling relations from four aspects,such as the circulation efficiency and competitive advantage of agricultural products,logistics infrastructure and the scale of trade,the level of logistics and trade structure.Finally the empirical analysis is given in two methods.The first method is to set agricultural foreign trade-logistics demand model and trade-logistics supply model with elastic analysis to quantify the relevance among the the logistics demand, logistics supply with agricultural export trade volume indicators associated of Shandong Province.The second method is to take the gray relational entropy to analyze the relevance of logistics factors impacting the agricultural export trade.The empirical results indicates that the main refrigerator car number and cold storage area influences the agricultural export most, the port berth number,the road density and the port through capacity elements followed by. Suggestions to strengthen agricultural export trade and logistics relevance are put forward in the end.