Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and nine other departments jointly issued the Special Action Plan for high-quality Development of Trade and Logistics (2021-2025) (hereinafter referred to as the Plan). According to the plan, by 2025, China will establish a smooth and efficient, collaborative, open standards, intelligent green, the fusion of modern commercial logistics system, and cultivate a batch of have the brand influence and the international competitiveness of trade logistics enterprise, trade and logistics standardization, digital, intelligent, greening level increased significantly, trade logistics network more robust, Regional logistics integration has been accelerated, new models and forms of business have been developed at a faster pace, the quality and efficiency of trade logistics services have been further improved, and the cost of trade services and international trade logistics has been further reduced.

It is understood that in view of the weaknesses and deficiencies in the field of trade and logistics in China, the Plan proposes 12 key tasks, including optimizing the distribution of trade and logistics network, building an efficient distribution system in urban and rural areas, promoting the integration of regional trade and logistics, improving the standard level of trade and logistics, and developing new business forms and new modes of trade and logistics.

In response, Liu Xiangdong, deputy director of the Economic research Department of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that the introduction of the plan will help accelerate the smooth circulation of the national economy, through production, distribution, circulation and consumption, and help form a higher level of dynamic balance in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand.

Liu xiangdong believes that the plan aims to improve the modernization level of trade logistics, promote cost reduction and efficiency, and play an important role in adapting to the needs of consumption upgrading and expanding consumption. By building an efficient urban and rural distribution system, promoting regional trade and logistics integration, and building an international logistics network, we will effectively promote and improve the market mechanism to match supply and demand, and release the potential of effective demand. By actively developing new business forms and models of trade and logistics, it can effectively respond to the impact caused by the epidemic, improve the organizational efficiency of supply and demand connection, and meet personalized and diversified needs. By accelerating the promotion of commercial logistics application technical standards, it can effectively help to build a high standard unified large market, enhance the adaptation of domestic supply to upgrading consumer demand, and enhance the purchasing power of the majority of middle and low income groups. By cultivating competitive and influential market players, we can enhance the attractiveness of the domestic market and help enterprises to explore the international market.

In recent years, Chinese enterprises continue to make efforts to promote the high-quality development of trade logistics. Cainiao Network, for example, currently serves more than 220 countries and regions with its global logistics network, offering different cross-border logistics solutions for big brands and small and medium-sized sellers.

Chen Liangjun, director of cainiao's public communication and Marketing Department, told reporters that cainiao has established logistics hubs in many countries and regions around the world, mainly in Hangzhou and Hong Kong in China, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Liege in Belgium and Moscow in Russia. At the same time, cainiao network also operates sea, land and air transportation routes together with partners, and establishes local logistics networks with regional service capabilities in key overseas markets, including overseas warehouses, overseas truck trains, overseas self-pickup containers, etc. By 2020, Cainiao had operated more than 1,800 cross-border transport lines, more than 230 cross-border warehouses, and used more than 200 air freighters per month. In March 2021, Cainiao handled more than 5 million cross-border parcels on an average day.

In addition, Cainiao network is also constantly optimizing the domestic terminal distribution network, improving rural commercial services and logistics distribution, making efforts to improve the standardization, digitalization and intelligence of commercial logistics, and supporting the professional development of green commercial logistics and renewable resources recovery.

It is reported that in 2020, cainiao's logistics technology began to serve overseas customers, helping Southeast Asian e-commerce platforms to carry out system transformation and docking with express delivery companies.

In "the plan", to be issued liang-jun Chen said, trade logistics industry, logistics, is an important part of commodity circulation, "the plan" mentioned in the "technology innovation and business model innovation," encouraging "urban and rural distribution, integrated logistics, international freight forwarding, supply chain services" in the fields of development, and rookie in recent years, science and technology innovation as the core, The concept and practice of building and developing new racetracks in areas such as community service, global logistics and smart supply chain fit well.

According to Chen Liangjun, professional logistics service capability is still the bottleneck of the development of the logistics industry, which is to a large extent caused by the disharmony between logistics, business flow and information flow. The integration of trade and logistics can effectively improve this situation. "Released" the plan "puts forward new requirements on logistics industry development, pointed out the direction, such as the construction of efficient distribution system between urban and rural areas, the popularization and application of modern information technology, new forms new model of developing commercial logistics, enhance the level of supply chain logistics management, and so on, these also is precisely the current logistics industry must seize new opportunities."

"Next, rookie will further through the logistics elements of digital and intelligent innovation, for global customers (including consumers, merchants and logistics partners, etc.) to provide convenient and diversified supply chain solutions and high quality logistics service experience, and extends from the consumer to the supply chain industry supply chain and high quality development of full-service business logistics, reduce logistics cost, Enhance the competitiveness of the circulation industry. It will also help expand employment, improve people's livelihood and ease pressure on resources and the environment." Chen Liangjun said.