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Abstract The Transportation Network of Liuzhou The poster is a graphic depiction of the problems that rapid economic development created for the Port of Liuzhou. As the industrial economy of Liuzhou City expanded the State Highway System Railway System port was increasingly unable to keep up with the import and export demands of the Chinese Railway System Liuzhou foreign trade market. The upgrading of the Port of Liuzhou has become a key factor in supporting the city’s economy and sustaining its growth. This task falls to the Liuzhou Port Administration Office. As is the case everywhere expansion requires both authorization and the adequate appropriation of funds. Since the port is located in the Port of Liuzhou West River Economic Zone, its recent upgrading at the National Development and Central Washington University Strategic Level will greatly facilitate Liuzhou’s efforts to establish a comprehensive bonded Quanzhou zone. The Port of Liuzhou as an inland port faces a unique set of problems that require an Xifang Wang Shantou integrated approach that involves three essential components: (1) the inland river port, (2) Kunming Mentor: Rex Wirth Nanning Liuzhou Liuzhou the dry port, and (3) the airport. The poster illustrates the relationships, problems, and prospects of linking these components together to create an integrated port system around Waterway System Aviation System a comprehensive bonded zone. The Definition and Classification of Ports in China Chinese government defined port as: My definition of Port: The area that cargo, goods, and The area that people, cargo, goods, and A Survey of Liuzhou City transportation vehicles can directly enter or exit the transportation vehicles can enter or exit the border of the country. country. Sanjiang County The Classification of Ports in China Classified Standard Authorization for Opening Ways of Transportation Rongshu i County Rongan Harbor ( Sea Port, Inland River County First Class Port; Port); Dry Port (Railway Port, Chengzhon Classification g District Second Class port Road Port); Air Port Guigan Liuchen Luzhai g County Liuzhou Air Lines Liubei County District The Introduction of the Port of Liuzhou Liunan Liujiang District County Yufeng District The port of Liuzhou is a first class inland river port. It is located in Liujiang River, which is a grade Liuzhou is the second biggest city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Ⅳ channel with a 500 ton traffic capacity. The Port of Liuzhou was officially opened up to the outside The Opportunity for the Port of Liuzhou In the year of 2014, the State Council approved the upgrading of the West River Economic Zone. West River China. There are four districts and six counties in Liuzhou. The total area of Liuzhou world on June 01,1990. It served the import and export goods clearance for the cities of Liuzhou, Laibin, is an important river channel in China. It is west of Yunnan and Guizhou, east of Guangzhou, Hongkong and is 18,600 square kilometers. It is a region where 48 minority nationalities people and Hechi. There were two Customs control wharf area in the Port of Liuzhou from 1990 to 2010. Macao and runs through Guangxi. The region covered by West River is the West River Economy Zone. National live in compact communities, such as Han, Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Dong and so on. The Liuzhou Zhegujiang Wharf Control Area Strategy is a developed plan for a country. Plans for the zone are part of a national strategy proposed by the total population in Liuzhou is 3.72 Million. highest level leaders of the country, and approved by the highest authority. Once the project was upgraded in the It served the goods clearance business in the wet season, which is from April to November. It is the national strategy, it became eligible for funding support from the national government. Liuzhou, as the leading permanent customs control wharf in the port of Liuzhou. The area is 12,000 square meters. The office is city in the West River Economic Zone, is the nearest and strongest industrial city and the transportation hub 725 square meters, the wear-house is 1800 square meters. It has a 1000 ton container berth, and a 500 which links the Chinese southwest, mid-south, southern part of China, and Southeast Asia. The upgrading of the ton cargo berth. There is one 40 ton and a 50 ton crane in the control area. The annual capacity in this West River Economic Zone at the National Development and Strategic Level greatly facilitates Liuzhou’s efforts control area is 0.5 million ton(Liuzhou Municipal Commission of Commerce, 1990). to develop the port of Liuzhou. The Industrial Economy in Liuzhou Wuxuan Shuangshi Wharf Control Area The Prospects for the Port of Liuzhou Liuzhou is the biggest industry city in Guangxi. Its gross industrial output accounts for It is located in the downstream of Liujiang River. It served in the dry season, which is from December one-fifth of Guangxi's. There are 2,848 industry enterprises with full range of industrial sectors to March. When the water level goes down in dry season, the boat cannot reach to Liuzhou Zhegujiang Comprehensive bonded zone is a special customs supervision area, which is established in Liuzhou. Among them, 10 are large-scale enterprises; 834 are industrial enterprises above Wharf Control Area, which is located in the upstream of Liujiang River. Shuangshi Wharf Control Area in inland China and is approved by the State Council. The functions of the comprehensive designated size; 5 enterprises are in the top five hundred list in the Chinese Manufacturing would help to serves the goods clearance business for Liuzhou import and export business. Therefore, it bonded zone are providing warehouse logistics, foreign trade, international purchase, was a temporary customs control wharf in the port of Liuzhou. Shuangshi Wharf Control Area was 7,999 Enterprises. The pillar industries are automobile, machinery, and extractive metallurgy. allocation and distribution, international transit, testing and after-sales services, product square meters. The office was 350 square meters. The annual capacity was 0.15 million ton(Liuzhou display, research and development, processing, manufacturing, and port services. It is a Municipal Commission of Commerce, 1990). special area with the highest level of openness, the most preferential policies, and the most simplified procedures in current mainland China. In 2010, according to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China's No. Supported by the National Development and Strategic of West River Economic Zone, 171 Order, Shuangshi Wharf Control Area was disqualified by Nanning Customs because there was no electronic monitoring system, wagon balance, and warehouse in this control area. Therefore, Zhegujiang the strong industrial economy, and the developed transportation network, the port of Liuzhou will be upgraded into an integrated port and comprehensive bonded zone. Gross Industrial Output Value (GIOV) in Liuzhou (year 2010-2014) Wharf Control Area become the only customs control area in the port of Liuzhou. GIOV in Liuzhou (Billion GIOV in Guangxi (Billion Year Proportion of Guangxi The Import and Export Cargo Volume in the port of Liuzhou (year 2010-2014) $) $) Total Import & Export Cargo The Annual Capacity Volume Year Volume Saturation References 2010 42.46 186.72 22.73% Volume(Ton) (Ton) 2011 50.4 241.44 20.87% 2010 338861 750000 45.18% Guangxi Statistic Bureau (a government organization). (2013). All Liuzhou Municipal Government (a government organization). (year Included Gross Industrial Output & Its Related Index. Guangxi 2011-2015). The Annual Government Report (year 2011-2015). 2012 57.92 275.2 21.04% 2011 453863 500000 90.78% Statistic Yearbook. 370. Retrieved from http://www.liuzhou.gov.cn/xxgk/jcxxgk/zfgzbg/ 2013 64.23 308.48 20.82% 2012 733871 500000 147.77% Gu Y. ( November 27, 2014). The State Port Office: There Will Be szfgzbg/201502/t20150209_769467.html 2014 70.72 345.6 20.46% 2013 503923 500000 100.78% New Definition for Port. Economic Daily. Retrieved from Liuzhou Municipal Government (a government organization).(n.d.) Introduction of Liuzhou. Retrieved from http:// 2014 580000 500000 116% http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201411/27/ english.liuzhou.gov.cn/info/introduction/201204/ t20141127_3992413.shtml t20120412_525075.htm The Ratio of Dependence on Foreign Trade in Liuzhou Liuzhou Municipal Commission of Commerce (a government Liuzhou Port Administration Office (a government organization). The Problem that the Port of Liuzhou Confront With Zhegujiang Wharf organization). (2014). The Enterprises Nameless of Liuzhou. (2014). The Transportation of Port of Liuzhou. Print. The ratio of dependence on foreign trade is the ratio that total foreign trade value in Gross Print. Control Area National Bureau Statistic of the People's Republic of China. (a Domestic Product (GDP). The higher the ratio, the higher the degree of dependence of an Liuzhou Municipal Commission of Commerce (a government government organization) (November 28, 2006). Statistics on the The first problem is that the working zone is too small, only 12,000 organization). (1990). Liuzhou Port Administration Office Medium and Tiny Enterprise Classification economy on foreign trade. The higher the ratio, the higher degree of the market’s openness. Paper Files. Print. square meters. And there is a flood bank behind it. Therefore, it is difficult Railway Culvert Method. Retrieved from http://http://www.stats.gov.cn/statsinfo/ Ratio of Dependence on Foreign Trade= Total Foreign Trade/ GDP✖100%. for it to expand. The second problem is that there is a railway culvert in the Liuzhou Municipal Statistical Bureau. (a government organization) auto2073/201310/t20131031_450691.html (2010-2014). Main Indicators of Liuzhou National Economy The State Council (a government organization). (July 8, 2014). State way of the enter and exit zone. It often causes traffic jams. The third Zhegujiang Wharf The Ratio of Dependence on Foreign Trade (RDFT) in Liuzhou (Year 2010-2014) (2010-2014).
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