Port trade resilience development along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and China's strategic response
Taking 53 ports along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road as the research object,container throughput data of ports from 2008 to 2019 were selected to measure the port trade re-silience and analyze the characteristics from two dimensions of resistance and resilience.The re-sults show that:①The resilience of ports along the Maritime Silk Road is good,and the resil-ience is much higher than the global average level of ports,and the overall resilience is obvious-ly on the rise.② The overall pattern of port trade resilience along the route presents a northwest southeast direction,with more significant differences in east-west extension compared to north-south direction.In terms of spatial-temporal evolution,the distribution is more dispersed,and spatial differences continue to decrease.③In the three shocks,the resilience values of Chinese ports differ significantly,and the overall development trend is stable and good.According to the research conclusions,policy suggestions are put forward:incorporating resilient development in-to high-quality port development evaluation system,strengthen differentiated cooperation strate-gies with important strategic ports,respond to the industry trend of the world shipping and trade center moving eastward,and Accelerate the forming a new port development pattern in which in-ternal and external circulation promote each other.
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