THE IMPACTS OF PORT-CITY COORDINATION ON URBAN ECONOMY IN LIAONING'S COASTAL ECONOMIC ZONE
Port-city coordination is a vital path to port city's quality development,which requires a scientific positioning and a clarification of its positive impacts on port-city coordination.This paper,aiming at a quality economic growth in Liaoning's costal economic zone,uses their interactive coordination among its six ports and inland cities to establish an index evaluation system of port development and urban economy,with weights given to indexes via entropy,and applies coupling coordination model to estimate their 2013 to 2021 coupling coordination of six ports and cities in Liaoning's coastal economic zone,establishes a panel data model to analyze its impacts of port-city coordination on urban economic growth.It concludes that technical innovation and green development are key factors to Liaoning's coastal economic zone's quality growth.Port-city development vary with ports and cities,higher port-city coordination in Dalian,Yingkou and Panjin,lower in Huludao.Port-city coordination is favorable for inland cities'economy with its contribution related to urban relevance on port-city coordination and port sizes.This paper presents suggestions on green & innovative development,advancing port levels through featured advantages and upgrading urban servicing guarantees by means of locality resources.