Top 10 Policies Affecting the Development of China's Logistics Industry

The 2018 Central Economic Work Conference made important conclusions: "China's development is still in, and will remain in, a period of important strategic opportunities for a long time to come. The world is facing unprecedented changes in a century. The medium and dangerous situations coexist with opportunities, which brings great opportunities for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We should be good at turning the crisis into an opportunity and turning it into a safe place. We should focus on the new connotation of important strategic opportunities, accelerate the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure, enhance scientific and technological innovation capabilities, deepen reform and opening up, accelerate green development, and participate in the changes in the global economic governance system Change pressure into the driving force to accelerate high-quality economic development. "

"Great changes not seen in a century", "China's strategic opportunity period", "international and domestic dialectics"... What impact does the economic change bring to the logistics industry? Is the complex domestic and international environment an organic hazard or something else for domestic logistics enterprises? If there is a chance, where?

On January 19, the "Insight 2019 · Huang Gang's Appointment" and the "Second Annual Meeting of China's Logistics and Supply Chain Development Drivers" jointly held by Logistics News and Hansen Business School will try to answer the above questions. Prior to this, Logistics News will count the development and changes of various dimensions of China's logistics industry in 2018 for reference. This is also the eighth consecutive year that the logistics index launched year-end inventory.

Some economists said: "The biggest variables in China are policy variables and institutional variables". Looking back at 2018, what policies have had a significant impact on the development and reform of the logistics industry? The following is an inventory of logistics.

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Policy: Interim Regulations on Express Delivery (Draft)

Time: February 7

Organization: Executive Meeting of the State Council

Main contents:

As the first administrative regulation of the express industry, the Regulations have greatly optimized the development environment, improved the operation system, enriched the service rules, consolidated the safety responsibility, and innovated the supervision means. On the basis of promoting the development of the express industry, ensuring the safety of express delivery and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, based on inclusive and prudent supervision, the mandatory provisions on express service vehicles have been adjusted, the handling procedures for undeliverable express delivery have been improved, and the sharing of terminal facilities and the construction of integrity system have been encouraged.

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In the process of development, the express industry faces many practical problems, such as the difficulty of passing express vehicles, the continued nonstandard market operation, and the high cost of licensing outlets... The introduction of the Regulations is intended to promote the healthy development of the entire express industry on the premise of keeping the bottom line and standardizing the order. As Director Ma Junsheng said, "The Interim Regulations on Express Delivery is a development law and a guarantee law for development." The volume of express delivery has exceeded 50 billion. While laws and regulations regulate, users' requirements for service quality are also gradually improving.

As the core supporting industry of China's Internet economy, express delivery has become a just needed service for people's life with the rapid development of e-commerce market scale. By the end of 2018, China's express has broken through the scale of 50 billion, with an annual per capita express volume of more than 35 markets, which increasingly needs to be standardized at the national level. Whether it is the professional management of couriers, the security management of the mail business, the supervision of delivery services, the supervision of operating vehicles, and the protection of user data and information security, the issuance of the express law has important social value for the healthy development of the industry.

Relevant policies:

The General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Coordinated Development of E-commerce and Express Logistics

"Express" has been included in the Government Work Report for five consecutive years

E-commerce Law, the first comprehensive law in e-commerce, was passed

The State Post Office launched the construction of express industry credit system in an all-round way

The Ministry of Transport issued the Administrative Measures for Intelligent Express Box Delivery Service (Draft for Comments)

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Policy: Notice on Carrying out Supply Chain Innovation and Application Pilot

Date: April 18

Organizations: Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Ecological Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, People's Bank of China, State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration, China Federation of Logistics and Procurement, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission

Main contents:

The pilot project includes urban pilot project and enterprise pilot project, and the implementation period of the pilot project is two years. The main task of the pilot cities is to introduce policies and measures to support the innovative development of the supply chain, optimize public services, create a good environment, promote the improvement of the industrial supply chain system, and explore a new mode of supply chain governance across departments and regions. The main task of the pilot enterprises is to apply modern information technology, innovate supply chain technology and mode, build and optimize the industrial collaboration platform, improve the level of industrial integration and collaboration, drive upstream and downstream enterprises to form a complete, efficient, energy saving and environmental protection industrial supply chain, and promote enterprise cost reduction and efficiency increase, green development, and industrial transformation and upgrading.

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With the advent of industrial Internet, any industrial supply chain will face innovation. Under the general environment of China's economy from extensive economy to intensive economy, the economic structure, industrial structure, urban and rural structure and regional structure will be comprehensively reconstructed. Optimizing the supply chain operation system across departments, regions and industries, opening, collaboration and sharing, has become a new trend in the digital economy era. Especially with the comprehensive penetration of sharing economy, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies, the innovation of industrial supply chain will become the main theme.

Relevant policies:

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the Notice on the Construction of Modern Supply Chain System in the Circulation Field

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Policy: Three year Action Plan for Promoting Transport Structure Adjustment (2018-2020)

Time: October 9

Organization: General Office of the State Council

Main contents:

By 2020, the national cargo transport structure will be significantly optimized, the bulk cargo transport volume undertaken by railways and waterways will be significantly increased, the port railway collection and distribution volume and container multimodal transport volume will increase significantly, and the transport structure adjustment of key regions will make breakthrough progress, making Beijing Tianjin Hebei and its surrounding areas a demonstration area for the national transport structure adjustment. Compared with 2017, the national railway freight volume has increased by 1.1 billion tons or 30%, including 40% growth in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas, 10% growth in the Yangtze River Delta, and 25% growth in the Fenwei Plain; The national waterway freight volume increased by 500 million tons, or 7.5%; The highway transportation volume of bulk goods in coastal ports decreased by 440 million tons. The average annual growth of multimodal transport freight volume nationwide is 20%, and the average annual growth of container hot rail transport volume in key ports is more than 10%.

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As the basic link of logistics operation, transportation has been a waste in the past under the commercial environment of asymmetric information and backward technology. The waste of anti empty vehicles on the trunk line, the waste of urban joint distribution, the waste of a large number of cars and other goods in the parking lot, the waste of poor multimodal transport coordination ability, etc. With the development of mobile Internet and smart logistics, the supply chain planning is becoming more and more accurate, and information collaboration is becoming more and more efficient; At the same time, with the penetration of open business thinking and sharing economy, the structural adjustment of logistics transportation will greatly reduce all kinds of waste in China's logistics operation, which has important business value for the new logistics business environment driven by artificial intelligence in the next 3-5 years.

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Policy: National Logistics Hub Layout and Construction Plan

Date: December 21

Organization: National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Transport

Main contents:

In combination with the basic pattern of "ten vertical and ten horizontal" transportation channels and domestic logistics channels, 127 cities with certain basic conditions are selected as the national logistics hub cities, and 212 national logistics hubs are planned to be built, including 41 land ports such as Shijiazhuang and Baoding, 30 ports such as Tianjin and Tangshan, 23 airports such as Beijing and Tianjin, 47 production and service types such as Hangzhou and Ningbo, Shanghai 55 commercial and trade service oriented national logistics hubs, including Nanjing, and 16 land border port oriented national logistics hubs, including Heihe and Dandong. It is proposed to build about 30 national logistics hubs by 2020; By 2025, about 150 national logistics hubs will be built, and the ratio of total logistics cost to GDP will be reduced to about 12%; By 2035, a national logistics hub network suitable for the modern economic system will be basically formed.

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China's rapid economic development regions can not be separated from the comprehensive supporting construction of logistics hubs. With the comprehensive coordination of sea, land and air, the construction of logistics hubs in multiple core cities and node cities has become the key to supporting China's economic development. Whether it is production and manufacturing service type, trade circulation type, multimodal transport type, free trade zone comprehensive service type, etc., it is of great value at present. From the national revitalization of logistics planning in 2009 to today 10 years later; From traditional logistics to high-speed rail express, to the construction of aviation hubs around the country, China's industrial hub economy plays an important commercial value. It will lay a solid foundation for future intelligent manufacturing, intelligent logistics and intelligent consumption.

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Policy: Notice on Deepening the Pilot Work of Vehicle less Carriers

Date: April 17

Organization: General Office of the Ministry of Transport

Main contents:

All provinces are required to further improve the monitoring and evaluation mechanism for the pilot enterprises of vehicle free carriers on the basis of early pilot work. All provincial transportation departments provide convenient, economical and efficient public information query services for pilot enterprises relying on the ministerial and provincial monitoring platforms; Take January to June, July to September, and October to December 2018 as the evaluation cycle to summarize and calculate the monitoring and evaluation results of pilot enterprises; In the process of supervision, pilot enterprises with non-standard operation, high abnormal monitoring rate, refusal to rectify and serious circumstances can terminate their pilot qualification. Strengthen communication with pilot enterprises and further standardize the business license of individual transport operators. At the same time, we will actively promote the implementation of relevant preferential tax policies, strengthen cooperation with professional insurance institutions, and develop and promote the application of liability insurance products for non vehicle carriers. We will support pilot enterprises to promote the vehicle free logistics model in key logistics fields such as urban distribution, rural logistics, and cold chain logistics, cultivate a group of pilot enterprises with innovative ideas, efficient operations, standardized services, and strong competitiveness, timely summarize and form a group of replicable and replicable typical experiences, and lead and drive the transformation and development of the industry.

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The car free carrier model, which has been called for for many years, has finally been officially recognized and standardized. CH Robinson of the United States achieved success many years ago abroad. Today's China's sharing economy has fully penetrated every detail of our lives. It has been a long time since we started the pilot project of logistics car free carrier talents. The wide application of NVOCC requires the establishment of an effective system on the basis of industry and even cross industry. No matter the management of the platform, the protection of individual transport drivers, or the standardization of supporting commercial service enterprises, there is no doubt that a process is still needed. China's mobile Internet industry is developing too fast, and the pace of business system transformation needs to be adapted and excessive. Therefore, many so-called car free carriers in the early days are only in the fur, in the future, in the era of intelligent logistics, in the era of driverless vehicles, and in the era of Internet of Things+Internet of Vehicles, they are important new scenes. The future is promising

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Policy: Opinions on Promoting Standard Pallets to Develop Unitized Logistics

Date: January 18

Organization: Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport, Statistics Bureau, Post Office, CNCA, National Standards Commission, China Railway Corporation

Main contents:

The standard pallet (1200mm × 1000mm), turnover box (basket, 600mm × 400mm module) is the container unit, operation unit, measurement unit and data unit. It develops the unitized logistics, promotes the efficient operation of all links of the logistics chain, and smoothly exchanges information among all subjects. The main objective is to increase the proportion of standard pallets in the total number of pallets in China from 27% to more than 32%, and the proportion of application fields from 65% to more than 70%.

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Pallet standard is the standard that China calls for. No matter in the period of contract logistics or e-commerce logistics, the industry was not successful because of the difference of application scenarios, especially in the logistics outsourcing of Chinese shippers, which is extensive cooperation, and it is difficult to achieve sharing and collaboration. Pallet preparation cannot be initiated by an industry association or an organization, but should be led by leading enterprises in the industry chain. The tray standard in the future will be combined with the application of Internet of Things technology, which will have a good imagination.

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Policy: Triennial Action Plan for Winning the Battle of Blue Sky Defense

Date: July 3

Organization: State Council

Main contents:

After three years of efforts, we have significantly reduced the total amount of major atmospheric pollutants, coordinated the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, further significantly reduced the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), significantly reduced the number of days of heavy pollution, significantly improved the environmental air quality, and significantly enhanced people's sense of happiness in the blue sky. Put forward six tasks and measures, including: adjusting and optimizing the industrial structure, promoting the green development of the industry; We will strengthen the comprehensive control of "scattered pollution" enterprises and deepen the control of industrial pollution. Accelerate the adjustment of energy structure and build a clean, low-carbon and efficient energy system. We will actively adjust the transport structure and develop a green transport system. We will significantly increase the proportion of railway freight transport, accelerate the upgrading of vehicle and ship structures, speed up the upgrading of oil quality, and strengthen the prevention and control of mobile source pollution. We will carry out key activities in autumn and winter in key areas, fight well against diesel truck pollution, carry out special actions to control industrial furnaces, and implement special treatment of volatile organic compounds.

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From the perspective of unit cargo turnover, road transport energy consumption and pollutant emissions are 7 times and 13 times higher than railway transport respectively. According to the source analysis results of atmospheric fine particles, motor vehicles, especially diesel vehicles, have become the primary pollution source in many large and medium-sized cities. Therefore, adjusting the cargo transport structure, increasing the railway freight volume and reducing the use of diesel trucks are important measures to control air pollution. He Kebin, an academician of the CAE Member, once said in an interview that "it is planned to increase the number of new energy vehicles to 2 million by 2020. It is not only helpful for us to improve air quality in the last three years, but also a fundamental role for us to continue to increase the proportion of new energy vehicles in the future.".

Relevant policies:

In principle, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment approved the Action Plan for Diesel Truck Pollution Control

The Ministry of Transport issued the Notice on Announcing the Establishment of Urban Green Freight Distribution Demonstration Project

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Policy: Adjust transport structure, improve transport efficiency and reduce logistics cost of real economy

Date: May 16

Organization: Executive Meeting of the State Council

Main contents:

In order to further promote the cost reduction and efficiency increase of logistics, the meeting determined three specific measures: from May 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019, halve the urban land use tax on the land leased by logistics enterprises for bulk commodity storage facilities. From July 1 this year to June 30, 2021, the vehicle purchase tax on trailers will be halved. By the end of this year, the annual inspection, annual inspection and exhaust emission inspection of freight cars will be carried out in one; Simplify the certification and license of freight vehicles, and implement the record management for vehicles without changing the key structural parameters; Cancel the qualification certificate and vehicle operation certificate of 4.5 tons and below ordinary freight; Carry out trans provincial and non local inspection for freight vehicles; Formulate national standards for installing tailboards on freight cars and improve management. Promote the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways; Simplify the establishment procedures of branches of logistics enterprises.

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According to the 2019 National Transportation Work Conference, China will further deepen the supply side structural reform of transportation in 2019, and reducing logistics costs is still a "priority". Promote differentiated toll collection for expressways, promote pilot provinces and cities to carry out the work of canceling provincial toll stations for expressways, speed up the online processing of annual examination of ordinary freight vehicles, implement the cancellation of mandatory online inspection for secondary maintenance, and steadily promote the "integration of three inspections into one"