Building Yingkou port into a main port in China

Abstract: Harbor plays a pivotal role in the economic development of a country or an area.After the World War II, the recovery of Japan’s economy, the emergence of “the Four Asian Tigers” and rise of China’s coastal districts, including the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta fully demonstrated harbor’s strategic role in economic development. As the nearest port to ocean in northeastern area, port of Yingkou values a lot to the development of city groups in the central part of Liaoning province and economic districts in Shenyang province, as well, to the rejuvenation of old industrial bases in northeastern area. At present,port of Yingkou has achieved leapfrog development, becoming a big port of hub accommodating hundreds million tons of goods. And it also transforming its developing model----from a port of hub to a powerful international port which is modern service oriented. So, from new starting point, it is very timely and necessary to have a scientific and new outlook on and to carry out new research on its transformation  and  development of Yingkou port. This paper, by analyzing the back-land of Yingkou port, investigating its collecting and distributing system, as well as studying its informatization of the management of port and supports from government and politics, tries to make Yingkou port an important port of China