After the theme forum in the morning, there were a series of sub-forums in the afternoon and the next day. The topics discussed were different, but the times were staggered. The theme forums that were close in time were arranged in different venues. There is at least a five-minute interval. In theory, participants can listen to all the reports if they are interested. Of course, the format of this forum is relatively open, and the general process is similar. Generally, the speaker will give a report. After the report, time will be left for everyone to ask questions. Some reports will be in the form of discussion, and some will be led by a speaker. The discussion will take place after the speaker has finished speaking, so the time will not exactly follow the official time arrangement. It is normal for some delays in the question and answer session or discussion session to last for a few minutes or more than ten minutes. Bao Feiyang attended several lectures. Most of the time he was listening and thinking, and occasionally asked one or two questions. However, what he is most concerned about is the themed forum on "Pujiang Port New Port Area Construction and International Shipping Center Construction". This forum was scheduled at four o'clock in the afternoon and was also the highlight of this forum. The keynote speaker was Hou Ronghua, general manager of Pujiang Port Group. "First of all, let me tell you some good news. In the past year of 1999, the container throughput of Pujiang Port reached 4.21 million TEUs, surpassing Los Angeles, Hamburg and Antwerp. After entering the tenth place among the world's top ten ports for the first time in 1998, In 1999, Pujiang Port became the seventh largest container port in the world and achieved a historic breakthrough" Hou Ronghua said loudly. The venue immediately burst into warm applause. The development speed of Pujiang Port has always been very fast, and the growth rate of nearly 50% is even more impressive. Since entering the top ten ports in the world in 1998, it has jumped three places in 1999 and become the seventh largest port in the world. This is indeed exciting news. According to Bao Feiyang¡¯s understanding, Pujiang Port will continue to maintain rapid growth, with a firm pace of one ranking per year, and will soon become the world¡¯s third largest port, and ten years later it will become the world¡¯s largest port. In fact, if we count the total cargo throughput, as early as 1995, the cargo throughput of Pujiang Port reached 166 million tons, ranking fourth in the world. However, the current common view is that the international status of a modern port depends not only on the import and export of primary products, but more importantly, on the import and export of industrial products. This is because the technical content of foreign trade industrial products is much higher than that of primary products. As the degree of containerization of ports continues to increase, the container throughput of ports has become an evaluation criterion for the port's international status and its degree of modernization. International shipping cargo can be roughly divided into three categories, namely bulk liquid cargo, such as crude oil, refined oil and liquefied gas, etc.; the second category is dry bulk cargo, such as iron ore, grain and coal; other dry cargo such as groceries and Containers, of which the third category is mainly transported in containers, the proportions of the three categories of goods are generally 40%, 25%, and 35%. In this era, there are only a dozen ports with a throughput of more than 100 million tons. There are only a dozen ports with more than 50 million tons, and some of them are single oil ports, coal ports and mining ports. No matter how large the throughput of such ports is, they cannot become shipping centers. All global and intercontinental shipping centers in the world are Container hub port. Hou Ronghua said: "The development of Pujiang Port is closely related to the development of the mainland economy. Pujiang Port has become the main distribution center for international trade logistics in East China and the Yangtze River Basin, and has become an important integration point for the integration of the Chinese economy and the world economy" "Pujiang Port It has superior geographical conditions, radiating to nine provinces and one city in the Tianjiang River Basin internally, and externally it is one of the world's maritime shipping hubs, reaching Vladivostok and Busan in the north, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong in the south, and Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe in the east. Within the 1,000 nautical mile circle centered on the Pujiang River, it is just over 10,000 nautical miles to London to the west and New York to the east, just at the midpoint of the two" "Pujiang Port has cooperated with 171 countries and regions in the world. More than 500 ports and more than 600 shipping companies have established shipping and trade exchanges. They send 279 flights to 45 ports in 32 countries and regions every month. The total area of ??Pujiang Port area exceeds 3,600 square kilometers and the coastline is 120 kilometers. , 140 berths, including 68 10,000-ton berths, and the total length of the pier is nearly 20,000 meters" Hou Ronghua excitedly summarized the current achievements and current advantages of Pujiang Port, and then continued: "Pujiang is building an international shipping center. It has become a national strategy and has received strong support from the central government. At present, the second phase of the Gaoqiao Port Area of ??Pujiang Port is about to be completed. The container throughput capacity of Gaoqiao Port Area will reach 4.5 million TEUs per year. In addition, the national key project, Tianjiang Estuary The first phase of the deepwater channel improvement project is progressing smoothly and is expected to be completed by the end of this year. By then, the channel water depth of Pujiang Port will increase from the current 7 meters to 8.5 meters. According to the plan, the entire channel improvement project will be completed in 2007, and the channel water depth will reach 12.5 meters, which can meet the basic needs of the fourth-generation container ship to enter the port all-weather, as well as the fifth-generation container ship."Container ships and 100,000-ton cargo ships need to take advantage of the tide to enter the port" Hou Ronghua said: "In view of this, we decided to start the follow-up expansion project of Gaoqiao Port Area as soon as possible, that is, the third and fourth phases of Gaoqiao Port Area The third phase of the project and the subsequent five phases of the project are the follow-up projects of the existing Gaoqiao Port Area. After completion, it will add an annual throughput capacity of 650,000 TEUs, bringing the container throughput capacity of Gaoqiao Port Area to 3 million. teu, the container throughput capacity of Pujiang Port exceeded 8 million teu in one fell swoop. The fourth and subsequent fifth phases of the project, namely the Gaoqiao New Port Port Construction Project, are located 1,000 meters downstream of the current Gaoqiao Port Area, with a long available coastline. It is about 2,360 meters. It is planned to build 7 container trunk ship berths and 4 barge berths. In the middle of the fourth and fifth phases of the pier, a gate of about 200 meters will be left for Tianjiang barges to enter and exit. Gaoqiao New Port will be completed. In the future, the designed annual throughput capacity will reach 4 million TEUs. Coupled with the optimization and transformation of the original port area, the annual container throughput capacity of Pujiang Port will exceed 10 million TEUs, and it is expected to become the third largest port in the world" Bao Feiyang wrinkled slightly Frowning, what Hou Ronghua said makes people feel that Pujiang Port Group has determined the construction plan of Gaoqiao New Port. The capacity of Gaoqiao New Port of 4 million TEUs, plus the subsequent expansion of Gaoqiao Port, is only the Gaoqiao Port area. The container throughput capacity of Hexin Port Area will reach 7 million TEUs. Coupled with the reconstruction and expansion of Chunshan Port Area, the entire Pujiang Port can reach a maximum throughput capacity of about 14 million TEUs. The current annual throughput of Pujiang Port is 4.2 million TEUs. More than three times the capacity is equivalent to building two new Pujiang ports, which is forward-looking enough in common sense