Empirical Study on the Competitiveness of Logistics Industry in China's Middle Region

As the result of the highly specialized division in the process of industrialization, modern logistics, due to its close relationship with agricultural and industrial production, exerts great influence on the growth of economy. The inland-located China's middle region, with a role of connecting its surrounding areas, has geographical edge in developing logistics. In order to gain an insight into the development of the logistics industry in China's middle region, we set up a relatively more comprehensive and objective evaluation indicator system on the principles of all-around perspectives, close relationship and data accessibility, and apply factor analysis and statistics of 2006 to conduct an empirical study focusing on the competitiveness of logistics industry in 30 regions of China. On the basis of that, we analyze and appraise the logistics industry's competitiveness of the six provinces in China's middle region.