TITLE:
An Empirical Analysis of Port-City Relationship: Based on the Comparison of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta
AUTHORS:
Wei Chen
KEYWORDS:
Port-City Relationship, Relative Concentration Index, Gray Relational Analysis, Impulse Response Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
18,
2017
ABSTRACT: This paper first analyzes the status quo of the
port-city relationship of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta
through the relative concentration index. It is found that the port-city
relationship of the Yangtze River Delta trends to be coordinated, while the
port-city relationship of the Pearl River Delta is still in a state of
uncoordinated. Then it analyzes the specific correlation between urban economy development
and port development by gray relational analysis; it is found
that the GDP and industrial output have high correlation with port cargo
throughput, and the average correlation value of Yangtze River Delta is higher
than that of the Pearl River Delta. Through the impulse response analysis, it
is found that the urban GDP and industry have a significant effect on the
development of the port in the short term, and the development of the port has
no obvious influence on urban GDP and industry.