Speech at the Digital Empowerment Trade Logistics High-quality Development Summit Forum and the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Caifeng International Logistics
Cui Zhongfu, Vice President and Secretary-General of China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing
December 18, 2023 Shantou, Guangdong
Distinguished leaders and distinguished guests:
Good afternoon, everyone!
Today, I am very pleased to gather with the leaders and friends in the logistics industry in Shantou, the "100-year-old commercial port", to witness the grand convening of the first digital empowerment high-quality development summit forum of trade and logistics in Guangdong and the 20th anniversary celebration of Caifeng International Logistics. Here, on behalf of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations on the convening of this summit forum and the 20th anniversary celebration of Caifeng International LogisticsI would like to extend my sincere greetings to all the leaders and guests who participated in this meeting
Since the beginning of this year, the national economy has continued to recover on the whole. From January to October, the total amount of social logistics in the country was 2783 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49%, the growth rate is 0 higher than that from January to September1 percentage point;The month of October grew by 51%, an increase of 03 percentage points. Judging from the recent trend, the growth rate of total social logistics is picking up month by month, showing that the recovery momentum of logistics demand has been stable. The integration of digital and real has entered a new stage. The smart logistics platform represented by digital freight leads the development, helping small and medium-sized enterprises to cross the digital divide and build a new logistics ecology of collaboration and symbiosis.
Trade and logistics are related to economic development, serve the society and people's livelihood, and play an important role in ensuring smooth communication and supply. In particular, the level of digitalization and intelligence of trade logistics is constantly improving. The scale of the unmanned distribution market continues to expand, and the layout of intelligent terminal distribution facilities is more perfect.
Looking forward to 2024 and the coming period, China's logistics industry is in a period of exchanging speed for space, and the new development pattern of dual circulation proposed by the state has opened up space for the high-quality development of modern logistics. Standardization, digitalization, collaboration, and greening will become an inevitable trend in the reform and development of trade logistics.
1. Standardization is the support for the high-quality development of trade logistics. The secretariat of the National Logistics Standardization Technical Committee is located in the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. Mainly responsible for logistics foundation, logistics technology, logistics management and logistics services and other standardized technical work. The construction of logistics standardization is of great significance for improving logistics efficiency, reducing logistics costs, and improving the quality of national economic operation.
2. Digitalization is the direction of high-quality development of trade logistics. With the rapid advancement of the construction of a network power and digital China, the optimization and upgrading of network infrastructure, new progress has been made in the construction of new information infrastructure such as 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, the rapid development of emerging services such as data centers, cloud computing, and big data, the scale of Internet of Things users continues to expand, and the integration of the digital economy and the real economy continues to deepen. Relying on the advantages of digitalization is the key to creating new growth points for logistics development.
3. Synergy is the boost for the high-quality development of trade and logistics. Trade logistics is deeply integrated into production, distribution, circulation, and consumption, and collaboration can be efficient, and through the coordination of procurement, production, circulation, and consumption of the whole chain logistics services, all aspects of trade logistics are more efficiently connected, and efficiency and resource utilization are effectively improved. Creating a good environment for collaborative development is an effective boost for the development of trade and logistics.
Fourth, greening is the main line of high-quality development of trade and logistics. Green, low-carbon and sustainable development has become the consensus of all walks of life around the world, and green warehousing, green packaging, and green distribution have gradually become the industry consensus in China, and energy-saving and environmentally friendly logistics facilities and new energy distribution vehicles are more widely used. Based on the strategic background of achieving "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", it is the only way for the future development of the industry to continuously improve its own resource utilization efficiency, reduce carbon emissions in business links, and give full play to the role of trade logistics as a green carrier.
Shantou Logistics and Purchasing Federation is about to be established, which marks that the logistics industry in Chaoshan has since had the leadership of industry organizations, the leadership of enterprise leaders, the guidance of more advanced productivity, and the role of social organizations as a bridge to make all links interconnected and real-time sharing, promote the coordinated development of the industrial chain, promote the high-quality development of logistics around digital transformation, accelerate the construction of digital China, and better serve China's economic and social development and the improvement of people's lives.
Ladies and gentlemen, the innovation and development of the logistics industry has a long way to go, and it is inseparable from the joint efforts of the logistics colleagues here. Under the wave of digital economy, the logistics industry needs to always adhere to the national strategic direction, actively develop smart logistics, lay out smart parks, network freight, and realize the innovative development of traditional logistics. China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing will, as always, pay attention to and support the innovation and development of the industry, play a good role as a bridge between enterprises and enterprises, and support the innovation and development of a number of competitive logistics enterprises such as Caifeng International Logistics. I believe that through this meeting, all logistics colleagues can have in-depth exchanges, share experience, enhance mutual trust, work together, and take the opportunity of the meeting to further understand the opportunities and conditions for investment and business in Guangdong and Shantou, and further open up the market of our logistics enterprises. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing will join hands with you to further promote the high-quality development of China's logistics industry
The New Year is approaching, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year on behalf of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing
Finally, I wish this conference a complete success!
Thank you!