Affecting Factors of the Competitiveness of Logistics Industry in Eastern China

This article constructs a fixed effects regression measuring model of logistics industry competitiveness based on the logistics data of 11 eastern provinces and cities from 2007 to 2013,taking into consideration the relationship between factor inputs and logistics industry competitiveness level.A number of factor inputs are analyzed,including scientific and technical personnel,fixed assets investment,and industrial structure to figure out their impact on the logistics industry competitiveness,and the method of stepwise regression is employed to identify the significant factors.The result shows that the investment in fixed assets has a positive correlation with the logistics industry competitiveness,while scientific and technological personnel and the third industry development have a negative correlation with the logistics industry competitiveness.Therefore,this article argues that while the logistics infrastructure investment is being promoted,it is urgently needed that a new independent path of innovation be constructed by optimizing the industrial structure and building a solid foundation of innovative human capital.