Wuhan metropolitan cluster (Wuhan metropolitan cluster is also called “1+8” metropolitan cluster, which is located in eastern Hubei Province. It refers to the metropolitan area centered in Wuhan City and composed of eight adjacent cities including Huangshi, Ezhou, Huanggang, Xiaogan, Xianning, Xiantao, Tianmen and Qianjiang, see Fig. 6.1) is an important metropolitan area situated in Central China. It was approved to be the “National comprehensive reform testing zone of resource-conserving and environmental-friendly society” by the State Council in 2007, under the backdrop of the “Emerging Central” regional development strategy. The government mandated the Wuhan metropolitan cluster to blaze a new trail of industrialization and urbanization featuring low resources consumption, less environmental pollution and strong resource-gathering capability. Development of logistics is deemed as conducive to the industrial restructuring of the area and the economic integration within the area, thus accelerating the pace of building it into an economic center in the Central Region.
This chapter contains three sections. The first section summarizes the economic development of the cluster. The second section elaborates on the characteristics of logistics development in Wuhan metropolitan cluster in terms of the scale of its logistics market, its position in China’s logistics network, its business logistics development, port logistics of the inland rivers in the area and the regional logistics cooperation. The third section describes the future development trend of Wuhan metropolitan cluster, including its general logistics positioning, direction of logistics development in each city, key industrial logistics and major development areas.
Logistics Development of Wuhan Metropolitan Cluster
Current Chinese Eco.Report Ser.
2013-08-15
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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