Approved by the State Council, China Logistics Group Co., Ltd. was officially established on December 6th.

At the founding conference of China Logistics Group, Director of the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Hao Peng, pointed out that China Logistics Group will focus on building a world-class modern logistics enterprise, vigorously developing professional logistics, smart logistics, green logistics, emergency logistics, and shared logistics.

The newly established China Logistics Group is based on the integration of the former China Railway Materials Group and four enterprises in the logistics sector of China Chengtong Holdings Group, namely China Materials Storage and Transportation Group, Huamao International Logistics Co., Ltd., China Logistics Co., Ltd., and China Packaging Co., Ltd.

Li Hongfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Logistics Group, stated that, China Logistics Group has emerged in response to the times, which is an urgent need to build a modern circulation system and serve the construction of a new development pattern. It is an urgent need to promote cost reduction, quality improvement, and efficiency increase in the logistics industry, ensure the independent and controllable safety of the industrial and supply chains, and accelerate the optimization and structural adjustment of state-owned capital layout, guiding state-owned capital to concentrate in important industries and key fields.

Building a logistics "national team"

2021 is a crucial year for the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises. At this critical time point, China Railway and China Chengtong Logistics have implemented professional integration, which not only demonstrates the continuous progress of the reform of overseas enterprises, but also reflects the importance of building a modern logistics system and stabilizing the supply chain.

At present, there are shortcomings in China's logistics industry, such as small and weak enterprises and low logistics efficiency. Building a modern logistics system is an important means to build a new development pattern. Therefore, it is imperative to promote the professional integration of central enterprise logistics business, create a comprehensive logistics national team, strive to optimize the layout of warehouse storage networks, and improve the modern logistics system.

It can be foreseen that China Logistics Group will focus on promoting the high-quality development of the logistics sector, striving to play an important role in coordinating the construction of modern circulation systems and cultivating and strengthening modern logistics enterprises with international competitiveness.

Liu Xingguo, a researcher at the China Enterprise Federation, stated in an interview with the media that from both internal and external perspectives, the establishment of China Logistics Group helps to gather logistics resources and optimize resource allocation, improve the asset quality and resource utilization efficiency of newly formed enterprises. At the same time, the professional integration of the logistics sector of central enterprises will help increase the concentration of the logistics industry, standardize and optimize the development order of the logistics industry, and promote technological progress in the logistics industry, Assist the entire industry in improving quality and efficiency development.

According to relevant statistics, the total integrated storage area is nearly ten million square meters. The storage resources include both open-air storage yards and warehouses, and the storage resources are distributed throughout the country and the world. This scale advantage will be in a leading position globally.

Moreover, the establishment of China Logistics Group will further enhance its organizational capabilities. Cai Jin, Vice President of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, emphasized in an interview that "currently, a major problem in the logistics field in China is weak organizational capabilities, with more organizational activities in a single logistics business. The future is to achieve a single logistics organizational capability through integration like China Logistics Group, and further transform and upgrade to the overall supply chain organizational capability.

Li Jin, Chief Researcher of the China Enterprise Research Institute, believes that the establishment of China Logistics Group has created a comprehensive logistics national team, which will be committed to optimizing the layout of the warehousing network and improving the modern logistics system. The specialized restructuring of central enterprises in the logistics industry helps to optimize the storage and logistics network layout of bulk commodities, form a full chain of bulk commodity storage and logistics system, and fill a gap in China's modern logistics industry.

Develop digital supply chain

With the continuous development of the domestic digital economy, supply chain services and digital transformation may become one of the important directions for the development of Chinese logistics groups, laying the foundation for building modern logistics enterprises with complete industrial chains and strong comprehensive strength.

Li Hongfeng stated at the founding conference of China Logistics Group, "China Logistics Group will always adhere to digital excellence, gather innovative elements, promote industrial digitization and digital industrialization, jointly build a shared logistics big data platform, develop new technologies, formats, and models for circulation, and help promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

In Liu Xingguo's view, China Logistics Group will play two roles in promoting logistics digitization: on the one hand, professional integration will organically integrate the originally decentralized logistics business into the new logistics group, which will help provide more scenarios for the deep application of digital technology in the logistics field; On the other hand, with the help of professional integration, resource optimization and allocation have been achieved, allowing for the overall allocation and utilization of previously dispersed resources. This undoubtedly helps to enhance the digital technology application and improvement capabilities of the newly formed logistics group, thereby better realizing the integration and application of digital technology and logistics business.

It is worth mentioning that in this direction, as one of the first batch of "5A level network freight platform enterprises" in China, China Storage Intelligent Transportation, a network freight platform under China Storage Corporation, is focusing on building a digital supply chain system. Zhongchu Zhiyun utilizes technologies such as blockchain, cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence to form the core "Zhiyun" network freight platform with logistics capacity trading systems and digital logistics management systems. Based on this, it gradually develops and constructs the "Zhichain" supply chain comprehensive service platform and the "Zhixin" digital credit service platform, forming logistics services, data services, and financial services A digital logistics and supply chain ecosystem composed of four major technical service sectors. At present, Zhongchu Intelligent Transportation is carrying out related ecological diversification construction, and the platform's business scope has covered all provincial-level administrative regions in the country (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions), covering 455 cities in the country, with 32000 transportation routes.

Provide greater space for the development of online freight transportation

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has clearly placed logistics infrastructure on par with major infrastructure such as railways, highways, waterways, aviation, and power grids. The status of logistics facilities has been elevated, and the importance of the logistics industry in ensuring the national economy and people's livelihood has increased.

In this context, combined with the development of "new infrastructure", China Logistics Group will be able to effectively utilize the attributes of state-owned capital, engage in investment in logistics facilities and equipment platforms, connect with ERP, MES, SCM and other systems in high-tech industries, form a digital logistics operation foundation, and achieve unified scheduling of various logistics resources upstream and downstream of the manufacturing supply chain.

At the same time, there are also overlapping areas among the integrated major sectors. If effective collaboration and mobilization of existing resources can be achieved, the effect of one plus one being greater than two will be achieved. It should be noted that with the establishment of China Logistics Group, it will have an impact on the development of integrated business in several major sectors. As mentioned earlier, supply chain services and digital transformation will become the direction of integrated development for related enterprises. Among them, network freight, based on the application of advanced information technology, has unique advantages in building a digital and intelligent supply chain. China Logistics Group will also provide greater development space for network freight in future development.

In this regard, Zhongchu Zhiyun clearly has a unique starting advantage. Relying on the advantageous resources of China State Storage Corporation, China State Storage Intelligent Transportation has accumulated rich experience and successful practices in the construction of digital and intelligent supply chains, which will provide strong support for China Logistics Group to build a modern logistics system.

Faced with a new development trend, online freight platforms are also facing new requirements, which require further improvement in dimensions such as technological innovation, enriching platform functions, and improving online and offline services to meet the new needs of industry development. As an emerging form of online freight, with its unique advantages in connecting supply chain data, improving transportation efficiency, and reducing logistics costs, it will play a greater role in the new logistics era.