How does the initiative of 21st century maritime silk road incentive logistics development in China's coastal region?

Abstract

Since the initiative of 21st century Maritime Silk Road has been put forward, more and more countries and regions have participated. As an economically developed coastal provinces in China, parts of them have got the remarkable achievements. This study mainly investigates the situation of logistics development in the coastal provinces before and after the initiative, also discuss the changes of its position in the logistics network. Through the turnovers from 2000 to 2020, we can calculate the value impacting logistics development, then build the complex network among 31 provinces, cities and autonomous zones with cosine similarity. On this basis, we use the community division to show the logistics development in coastal provinces. Overall, the initiative obviously promotes the logistics development in the coastal provinces, yet the development degree is also different.