After the theme forum in the morning, there will be a series of sub-forums in the afternoon and the next day, with different topics to be discussed, but the times are staggered, and the theme forums that are closer to each other are arranged in different venues, with at least a five-minute interval in between, so that participants can theoretically listen to all the presentations if they are interested.

Of course, the form of this forum is relatively open, and the general process is almost the same, generally the speaker makes a report, and after the report is over, there will be time for everyone to ask questions, some reports will be in the form of discussion, and some will be discussed by a keynote speaker after speaking, so the time will not be completely in accordance with the official arrangement of the time, and it is normal for some to delay for a few minutes or ten minutes in the Q&A session or discussion.

Bao Feiyang listened to several lectures, and most of the time he was listening and thinking, occasionally asking one or two questions. However, he is most concerned about the theme forum of "the construction of Pujiang Port New Port Area and the construction of an international shipping center".

The forum was scheduled at 4 p.m., which was also the highlight of the forum, and the keynote speaker was Hou Ronghua, general manager of Pujiang Port Group.

"First of all, let me tell you a good news, in the past 1999, the container throughput of Pujiang Port reached 4.21 million TEUs, surpassing Los Angeles, Hamburg and Antwerp, after Jiuba entered the tenth place of the world's top ten ports for the first time, Pujiang Port became the world's seventh largest container port in one fell swoop...... and made a historic new breakthrough," Hou Ronghua said loudly.

The venue immediately resounded with warm applause, and the development speed of Pujiang Port has been very fast, and the growth rate of nearly 50% is even more impressive. Since entering the ranks of the world's top ten ports in '98, it has leapfrogged three places in one fell swoop and become the world's seventh largest port in '99, which is indeed exciting news.

According to Bao Feiyang's understanding, Pujiang Port will continue to maintain rapid growth, and will soon become the world's third largest port with a firm pace of one ranking a year, and become the world's largest port in one fell swoop ten years later.

In fact, if the total cargo throughput is calculated, as early as 95 years, the cargo throughput of Pujiang Port reached 166 million tons, ranking fourth in the world. However, the prevailing view is now 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, and with the continuous improvement of the degree of port containerization, the laughter of port container throughput has become the evaluation standard of the port's international status and its degree of modernization.

International maritime cargo can be roughly divided into three categories, that is, 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 general cargo and containers, of which the third category is mainly transported by containers, the proportion of the three types of goods is 40%, 25%, and 35%, in this era, the throughput of more than 100 million tons of ports is more than a dozen, more than 50 million tons of only a dozen, some of which are a single oil port, Coal ports and mining ports, no matter how large the throughput of such ports, cannot become shipping centers, and the world's global and intercontinental shipping centers are all container hub ports.

Hou Ronghua said: "The development of Pujiang Port is closely related to the development of the mainland economy, and Pujiang Port has become the main distribution center for international trade and logistics in East China and the Yangtze River Basin, and has become an important combination point for the integration of China's economy and the world economy......

"Pujiang Port has superior location conditions, radiating nine provinces and one city in the Tianjiang River basin internally, and is one of the world's sea routes to the outside world, north to Vladivostok, Busan, south to Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, east to Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, all within the 1,000 nautical mile circle centered on the Pujiang River, and to the west from London and east to New York are more than 10,000 nautical miles, just at the midpoint of the two......

"Pujiang Port has established shipping and trade contacts with more than 500 ports and more than 600 shipping companies in 171 countries and regions in the world, and sends 279 flights to 45 ports in 32 countries and regions every month, with a total area of more than 3,600 square kilometers, 120 kilometers of coastline, 140 berths, including 68 10,000-ton berths, and a total length of nearly 20,000 meters......"

Hou Ronghua summed up the current achievements and current advantages of Pujiang Port very excitedly, and then continued: " Pujiang construction of international shipping center, has become a national strategy, has been the strong support of the central government, at present, Pujiang Port Gaoqiao Port Phase II project is about to end, Gaoqiao Port container throughput capacity will reach 4.5 million TEUs per year, in addition, the national key project, Tianjiangkou deep-water channel renovation project is progressing smoothly, is expected to be completed by the end of this year, when the channel depth of Pujiang Port will be increased from the current 7 meters, increased to 8.5, and according to the plan, the entire channel improvement project will end in 2007, the channel water depth will reach 12.5 meters, can meet the basic needs of the fourth generation of container ships all-weather access to the port, as well as the need for fifth-generation container ships and 100,000-ton cargo ships to enter the port while the tide ......"

Hou Ronghua said: "In view of this, we have decided to start the follow-up expansion project of Gaoqiao Port Area as soon as possible, that is, the third phase of Gaoqiao Port Area, The fourth phase and the subsequent five phases of the project, of which the third phase of the project is the follow-up project of the construction of the existing Gaoqiao port area, will add 650,000 TEUs of annual throughput capacity after completion, so that the container throughput capacity of Gaoqiao port area will reach 3 million TEU, and the container throughput capacity of Pujiang Port will exceed 8 million TEU in one fell swoop, and the fourth and subsequent five phases of the project, that is, the construction project of Gaoqiao New Port Area, is located 1,000 meters downstream of the current Gaoqiao port area, with a usable shoreline length of about 2,360 meters, and plans to build 7 container trunk berths, as well as 4 barge berths, and in the middle of the wharf of the fourth and fifth phases, there will be a gate of about 200 metersAfter the completion of the new Gaoqiao port, 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 world's third largest port ......"

Bao Feiyang frowned slightly, what Hou Ronghua said made people feel that Pujiang Port Group had determined the construction plan of Gaoqiao New Port. The capacity of 4 million TEUs of Gaoqiao New Port, coupled with the subsequent expansion of Gaoqiao Port, the container throughput capacity of Gaoqiao Port and Xingang Area alone will reach 7 million TEUs, coupled with the transformation and expansion of Chunshan Port, the entire Pujiang Port can reach a maximum of about 14 million TEUs......