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abstract

The increase in global economic connectivity spurred by ties between Chinese manufacturing and a global market, particularly in high value low weight goods, pushed establishment of air cargo networks. These remain under-examined but impactful particularly for second and third tier metropolitan hub cities. This research looks at the air freight connections within China, a major rapidly developing trade center, and use of the aerotropolis concept to accelerate growth in the lagging inland region. References are made to FedEx and UPS networks within their U.S. headquarter region and in China to note differences in political economic contexts and China’s adaptation of developed world models. The theoretical framework includes global production networks strategically coupled by transport logistics linked to aerotropolis type development. Data comes from government aviation and transportation sources, research analyses, corporate and industry reports, and interviews with Chinese officials. Focus falls particularly on Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province in central China and the country’s first airportcentered economic zone. The conclusion finds that Chinese hub cities more closely correspond to major manufacturing and population centers and central policy directives for development dispersion. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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summary China and the United States are well linked internally and externally to each other through global air cargo trade networks of major corporate integrators such as FedEx and UPS. As in China many second tier nodal city sites share an airfreight network, showing the importance of intermediacy, or in-between-ness. Coordinating functions strategically couple transportation modes across a wide variety of distances among suppliers and markets in global production networks. In the air freight networks studied, these locations are increasingly supported by a combination of internal corporate facilities and proximate businesses, lowering costs through co-location in the hierarchically structured urban network and across global production networks such as the Apple/ Foxconn center in Zhengzhou.