Comprehensive evaluation and spatial distribution analysis of logistics development in China

Using principal component analysis, according to brief and feasible principle, a comprehensive index system of logistics development evaluation which has twenty indexes is established. This system has three core logistic systems including transportation flow, commercial and trade flow, information flow and some subsidiary systems of social and economic development. In the past thirty years, logistics development in China has achieved significant achievements. Especially after 1990s, logistic industry got rapid development. But the differences of logistic development among eastern China, central China and western China became more and more great. Analyzing the reason, it had direct correlation with the differences among the three regions in economic development. About the logistics spatial distribution, it shows "five circles and two belts" characteristic. Five circles are Bohai logistics circle, Yangtze Delta logistics circle, Logistics circle around Taiwan Strait, Pearl River Delta logistics circle, logistics circle around Beibu Gulf. Two belts were Yangtze River Basin logistics belt and Eurasia Land Bridge logistics belt