Measurement of High-Quality Development Level and Its Spatial Characteristics of Logistics Industry in China

Abstract

The entropy weight-TOPSIS method is used to calculate the high-quality development level of logistics industry in 31 provinces of China in 2011-2020, and to test its spatial differences and autocorrelation using Theil index and Moran's I index. The results show that: (1) the highquality development level of logistics industry in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing and Jiangsu ranks the top; (2) the high-quality development of logistics industry is accelerated after 2014; (3) the spatial differences mainly come from the imbalance in northwest China and East China; (4) the spatial autocorrelation is remarkable and gradually increasing. Finally, in order to promote the high-quality development and coordinated development of the logistics industry, some suggestions and countermeasures are put forward.