Research Article

Impact of Logistics Development on Economic Growth: An Empirical Research from Guangdong Province in China

Table 1

Evaluation indices of logistics industry development.

First grade indexSecond grade index

Industrial scaleA11: post and telecommunications revenue (hundred million yuan)
A12: revenue per square km from post and telecommunications (million yuan/km2)
A13: total freight (ten thousand tons)
A14: total freight per square km (ton/km2)

InfrastructureA21: road density (km/km2)
A22: car ownership per capita (car/million persons)
A23: mobile ownership per km2 (ten thousand/km2)

Human resourcesA31: logistics employment (millions)
A32: the proportion of logistics employment with respect to all industrial employees (%)

Industrial supportA41: number of industrial enterprises above the designated size (units)
A42: number of wholesale and retail trade enterprises above the designated size (units)