(China E-Commerce Research Center) At the 2017 China Logistics Ecosystem Sharing Economy Summit Forum held on July 30, a number of logistics industry experts and scholars gave authoritative policy interpretations and industry research on the combination of sharing economy and logistics. Cui Zhongyu, vice president and secretary-general of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, said at the conference that the logistics industry is born with a sharing factor. Xu Shuibo, chairman of Tiandihui, a logistics industry Internet platform company, said that the opening of the sharing economy in the logistics industry will promote the industry to achieve quality improvement, cost reduction and efficiency increase.
Logistics industry faces new opportunities
"The development of China's logistics industry is facing new opportunities and challenges, and the pressure of rising logistics costs remains high." Cui Zhongyu said. the total global logistics in the first half of 2017 was 118.9 trillion yuan, up 7.1% year-on-year; the total cost of social logistics was 5.6 trillion yuan, up 10.2% year-on-year, the growth rate increased by 7.5 percentage points over the same period last year.
It believes that the current has entered a critical period of quality and efficiency, especially in the context of the rigid rise in factor costs, operating costs can not be reduced, the logistics industry to implement supply-side structural reform is still a difficult task.
Zhou Hanmin, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of China (DAB) and vice chairman of the Shanghai CPPCC, believes that the logistics industry has become one of the pillar industries in China, but the problem of "fatness" is still prominent. He pointed out that in 2016, the output value of the logistics industry reached 10% of GDP, while the ratio in other developed countries was only about 7%. To a certain extent, this reflects the current situation of "three highs and one low" in China's logistics industry, namely, high logistics costs as a percentage of the total cost of industrial products, high logistics management costs as a percentage of the total logistics costs, high empty load rate in transportation, and low total factor labor productivity of the industry.
"Due to the stage of economic development and market management and other reasons, China has failed to cultivate international-level logistics enterprises in the process of becoming a world manufacturing power." Wang Ming, director of the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Comprehensive Transportation Research, believes this will be addressed in the next phase of economic and industry development.
"Sharing + logistics" is a breakthrough
"One is the sharing of logistics resources. There is already the matching of freight trucks and freight resources through the sharing of resources to reduce the empty return rate of trucks or to optimize the allocation of storage resources with the logistics crowdsourcing model; the second is the sharing of logistics infrastructure. government offices, supporting enterprises, etc. are gathered together to form a new logistics ecosystem; third is the separation of use and ownership rights, the division of labor among enterprises towards collaborative sharing, the sharing of individual logistics resources, and the clustering and synergy of logistics infrastructure." Cui Zhongyu believes that the sharing economy will bring huge development space to the industry.
Zhou Hanmin, on the other hand, believes that the implementation of supply-side structural reform in the logistics industry is on the rise. On the other hand, China's logistics industry should reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve quality, and coordinate with the "One Belt and One Road" to improve the efficiency of production factors on a global scale.
Xu Shuibo said that Tiandihui has done a lot of exploration in the sharing economy in the past few years, and finally created a logistics ecosystem for resource sharing, from the park to online settlement, and then to card air optimization and financial ecological services. Tiandihui has been sharing resources through four products to solve the problem of improving quality and reducing costs and increasing efficiency. (Source: Shanghai Securities News Article/Shao Hao)
On September 19, China E-commerce Research Center released the "2017 (Previous) China E-commerce Market Data Monitoring Report" (full text download: www.100ec.cn/zt/17jcbg1). The report released the development status of China's e-commerce and various segments in the first half of 2017, including: B2B e-commerce, retail e-commerce, life service e-commerce, cross-border e-commerce, etc. The main e-commerce platforms involved include: 1) B2B e-commerce platforms: Alibaba, Huicong.com, Global Sources, Shanghai Steel Union, Focus Technology, Businessbuy, Global Market, Jinquan.com, Jinyindao, etc. 2) Retail e-commerce platforms: Tmall, Jingdong, Vipshop, Suning Tesco, Gome Online, No.1 Shop, Amazon China, Dangdang, Jumei Youpin, etc. 3) Life service e-commerce platforms: Meituan, Hungry (4) Cross-border e-commerce platforms: Amazon, eBay, Global Express, Dunhuang, Wish, Dalong, Cross-border, Little Bird, Chain of Prices, Tongtuo Technology, Aoji E-commerce, Youkai, Lanting, Yangtze, Tmall International, Baby Grid, Suning Overseas Shopping, Jumei, Jingdong Global Shopping, Amazon Overseas Shopping, No.1 Store Global Import, Gome Overseas Shopping, Honeybee, Baby Tree, Meihuo Mama, etc.
