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China has become the world port throughput and container throughput up, the fastest growing countries With China's rapid economic development, China's ports, especially in the large container port in the promotion of economic development plays an extremely important role. From the layout of the class of goods, China has initially formed around the four cargo of coal, oil, iron ore and container specialized and efficient transportation system. In recent years, the scale of China port infrastructure significantly expand production capacity significantly enhanced; ports is becoming more rational layout, structure optimization and upgrading, function and gradually extended; significantly improve the ability and level of port services. At present, China has constituted a pattern of reasonable layout, structured, full-featured port, built scale and the relative concentration of the five coastal ports in the Bohai Rim, the Yangtze River Delta, the southeast coast of the Pearl River Delta and the southwestern coastal areas. Eleventh Five-Year period, China's coastal port construction investment of over 350 billion yuan, and has built a number of large-scale, specialized port area in the Yangtze River, along the Xijiang shipping trunk and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. As of the end of 2010, the number of above-scale port 96, has production with berths for 32,148 ton berths 1659. Port construction has made remarkable achievements, be driven the port industry, promote regional economic development engine. Relying on the coastal ports, establish dry port to become the new trend of port development in the inland provinces, Tianjin Port, Ningbo - Zhoushan Port, Dalian Port and Xiamen Port have been included in the port hinterland establishment of the dry port. The assumed international division of labor in Golbalization not undergone fundamental changes, the China factor is still an important driving force of China port industry and even the global shipping industry. Expected during the 12th Five-Year period, China's port industry will continue to maintain a healthy and orderly development, further development and growth.