At 3 a.m., Master Yu, a truck driver who lives in the southern suburbs of Beijing, walked out of his house and drove a van to the Xinfadi Fruit Wholesale Market to start the day of taking orders and pulling goods.
During the Spring Festival this year, market bosses also rushed to issue orders. This month, I received more than 20 pre-orders for morning shipments, and I had to leave in the early morning to load the goods. Chef Yu said that the orders he has received recently are mainly rice, flour, oil, and fresh vegetables and fruits, "especially with the arrival of spring, the orders are obviously increasing day by day."
As the traditional peak consumption season, the Spring Festival every year not only has the Spring Festival, which is known as the "largest migration of human beings", but also has a huge demand for freight. Road freight with wide coverage and high flexibility plays an important role.
According to the analysis of the national highway traffic survey team of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, during the Spring Festival this year, the traffic volume of trucks on trunk roads increased by 20% year-on-year compared with the Spring Festival holiday in 20233%, with a significant increase in truck traffic compared to the same period in 2023. Among them, the truck traffic of major transportation corridors such as Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao, Lianhuo, Shanghai-Kunming and other major transportation corridors increased by more than 30% year-on-year, which is higher than the national average.
According to the big data statistics of Lala, starting from February 16 (the seventh day of the first lunar month), the number of waybills displayed on the freight platform returned to a high level, during which the overall waybill volume of the platform increased by 13% year-on-year, and the freight volume picked up rapidly, marking the rapid operation of the economy.
The annual cargo volume is obvious.
Red creamy strawberries, round and plump Chilean cherries, huge long-stemmed durians, ......These fresh fruits, which are loved by consumers, are the frequent customers in Master Yu's carriage recently. He transported the goods to the major supermarkets in Beijing one after another, enriching the citizens' vegetable baskets bit by bit and satisfying people's taste buds during the festival.
According to the monitoring and summary data of the Office of the Leading Group for Logistics Protection, from January 29th to February 4th, the cumulative number of trucks on the national highway was 427160,000 units;From February 5th to February 11th, a total of 1,584 trucks passed on highways across the country30,000 units.
In Master Yu's view, becoming a truck driver and becoming a member of the Spring Festival supply army is both bitter and joyful. He said that although he braved the cold every day to get up early and be greedy, the flow brought by the increase in orders in January, coupled with the subsidies given by the platform for the Spring Festival, he earned nearly twice as much as usual, and his heart was even warmer.
It is understood that in order to ensure the capacity during the Spring Festival, the "New Year Cargo Festival" has been held for 8 consecutive years. From January 5th to February 2nd this year, the "2024 New Year Cargo Pulling Festival" was launched, and tens of millions of subsidy benefits and peak service fees were put into platform drivers to encourage platform drivers to "take more orders to ensure supply and demand". The person in charge of the operation of Cargo Lala said that more than 10 million users have placed orders for vehicles in this activity, and the average daily order volume of drivers on the Cargo Lala platform has increased by 49% year-on-year, providing an important capacity guarantee on both the supply and demand sides.
As the domestic economy continues to improve, and at the same time, driven by the demand for Spring Festival stocking, fresh vegetables and fruits have become more important goods in the freight market. "In this regard, we launched a cold transportation business in 2023, which has greatly increased the transportation capacity of fresh fruits and vegetables. The person in charge said that this category of goods will become more and more "frequent passengers" in the cargo car. He also said that in the spring and summer of the Year of the Dragon, the transportation demand for this category will further climb.
tourism fever + cultural and creative popularity" to cultivate more new demand.
From the cold winter to the new spring, Harbin, which is out of the circle, has driven many tourism, cultural and creative industry chains. From the Ice City Four Seasons AR refrigerator magnet to the ice and snow series of themed silk scarves, from the Heilongjiang-themed paper carving lanterns to the frozen pear ...... that make southern tourists feel novelA variety of tourism products have become the highlight of the streets of Harbin, and at the same time, it has also greatly boosted the demand for freight.
According to the person in charge of the local cargo pulling operation, during the "2024 New Year Cargo Pulling Festival", the number of local freight orders in Harbin increased by 113% year-on-year. Among them, in addition to the common decoration and building materials, grain, oil and food and logistics express delivery in the past, small commodities related to tourism and cultural creativity have become new popular categories.
Sanya, which is 3,400 kilometers away from Harbin, is also very popular with the combination of "tourism + cultural creativity". At the main venue of the 2024 Sanya New Year Festival, which opened earlier, a dazzling array of goods and festive and lively New Year's flavor attracted many local citizens and foreign tourists. According to the data of the cargo pulling platform, since November 2023, the average monthly order volume in Sanya has increased by **80% year-on-year.
The stall owner, Ms. Sun, is one of the beneficiaries of the festival. She told reporters that she originally had a formal job, but seeing that many tourists have come to Sanya for the Spring Festival in recent years, she decided to come out to sell New Year's flowers part-time.
Daffodils symbolize auspiciousness, beauty and longevity, and peach blossom ...... symbolize fortune and treasureThese are common decorative plants during the Spring Festival. Not only do they add to the festive atmosphere, but they are also often given beautiful meanings. Ms. Sun said that she has been using Lala to buy goods and sell out of stalls, and the phalaenopsis prepared this year has different shapes and is quickly sold out.
She said that if there is no convenient car platform, she may not be able to do such a part-time job, and she will not be able to participate in the 2024 Sanya New Year Festival. "I don't have a truck or driver at home, and it's hard to find a suitable vehicle for transporting flowers and potted plants outside. ”
Changes in road freight demand often reflect the new trend of consumption. From the perspective of waybill volume, fresh vegetables and fruits, moving items, grains, oils and foods, logistics and express delivery, and small commodities ranked the top five, among them, fresh vegetables and fruits and grain, oil and food rose the most than the previous year. It is worth noting that the number of orders for fresh fruits and vegetables after the year is 23% higher than in 2023**.
At the same time, statistics show that during the Spring Festival, the busiest transport routes between cities in the province are more concentrated in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces. The intra-provincial transportation between Xi'an and Xianyang in Shaanxi and Wuxi and Suzhou in Jiangsu is relatively large. In terms of inter-provincial transportation, the Yangtze River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are more frequent, with Shanghai and Suzhou, Langfang and Beijing, Jiaxing and Shanghai ranking the top three.
Not only tourist cities, but also all over the country, we are continuing to observe and deploy, even if the pull festival is about to end, the platform will have a special person on duty during the Spring Festival to do a good job of logistics support on both sides of supply and demand. The person in charge of cargo operations said.
*: China Youth Daily.
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