Developing China's Ports

Developing China’s Ports

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Developing China's Ports

Published on Jun 8, 2022Logistics

World Bank Publications

"Many countries in Africa and Asia have coastlines that present opportunities for them to become gateways for trade between the hinterlands and global trading routes. However, policy makers struggle to translate this potential into engines of economic development and social transformation. In the past 40 years, China has taken advantage of its strategic geographical location and its status as one of the world’s top manufacturing regions. From a very low position on almost all metrics, today China has become home to more than half of the world’s top 50 ports. The rapid development of China’s ports was critical for the country’s remarkable economic growth. What China achieved can be informative; how and why China revived and modernized its port sector is especially relevant and provides valuable lessons for other countries. This book explores the transformation of China’s port sector through four topics and four periods, beginning with China’s major economic reforms that started in 1978. The first topic addres

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3.8 Lesson 8: Test the waters before scaling up

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A.1 Policies concerning multimodal transport in China, 2011–19

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Developing China's Ports

Articles inside

3.8 Lesson 8: Test the waters before scaling up

A.1 Policies concerning multimodal transport in China, 2011–19

References

develop a competitive port ecosystem

objectives

Port governance and finance

China

Xiamen and Shanghai

development in China’s ports

3.1 Lesson 1: Port development should not stop at the port gate

B2.11.1 Inland container barges operating at the automated container terminal at Yangshan, Port of Shanghai

bachelor’s degree and higher at specific ports, 2018

2.4 Wind power, Port of Wuxi

Environmental policies for ports

2.3 Bulk terminal, Port of Yantai

2.6 A model for the development of port cities: The case of Shenzhen

2.9 Cooperation between the Ports of Dalian and Shenyang

2.1 Qingdao city and port

Shanghai

2.5 Ports as an anchor for growth: The case of the Binhai New Area

14th Five-Year Plans

2.1 The first generation of special economic zones in China, 1980–92

inspection

References

2.3 The World Bank’s first loans to Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Tianjin

2.4 Port construction fees

Regional economic development policies and their impact on the port sector

2.7 Illustration of revenue sources for port enterprises