"We have built the first low-carbon photovoltaic logistics park in China. A few days ago, at the inaugural meeting of the Yellow River Basin Smart Green Logistics Collaborative Innovation Center and the first seminar on the green, low-carbon and high-quality development of the logistics industry in the Yellow River Basin held in Jinan, the relevant person in charge of Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group said in a keynote speech.
Logistics is a basic, strategic and leading industry that supports the development of the national economy, and strongly supports the efficient operation of all walks of life in the economy and society, and its smart, green, low-carbon and high-quality development is of great significance.
As a large-scale comprehensive logistics enterprise growing up on the banks of the Yellow River, the green and low-carbon development of Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group is only a microcosm of the high-quality development of the logistics industry in Jinan and even the entire Yellow River Basin.
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The national logistics hub incremental shortboard project will be put into use next year
There is a Gaijiagou village in Huashan Street, Licheng District, Jinan City, formerly known as Gaijiazhuang, because the Yellow River rushed out of a ditch from it, so it is called Gaijiagou, the Yellow River has achieved a large bend at a close right angle here, and it seems to be very unique in the "Jiuqu Yellow River Wanlisha", and it seems that it is destined to be this village since the reform and opening up, especially since the new era of extraordinary entrepreneurial development experience.
In 1998, the village raised 300,000 yuan of start-up funds to start construction of a distribution center on 300 acres of waterlogged land, unveiling the prelude to the development of Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group, and independently creating a unique development model of "urban dry distribution integrated logistics service platform" of "one-stop operation and integrated development of logistics and market".
After 25 years of development, this company has become one of the top 10 logistics park operators in the country, operating a logistics park covering an area of nearly 7,000 acres, forming an industrial foundation for the integrated development of Jinan headquarters, Gaishi Guanwei, Gaishi Jibei and Gaishi Chuangwei across the four major areas of the Yellow River and online and offline.
At present, Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group has a storage area of 2 million square meters, 750,000 cubic meters of cold storage, and more than 3,000 customers, forming an operation pattern of "dual hubs in the south and north towns", creating a Yellow River logistics industrial belt that serves Jinan and radiates the whole country, and became the first batch of national demonstration logistics parks in 2016 and the main investment and operation body of Jinan's commercial and trade service-oriented national logistics hub in 2020.
Obviously, the burden of Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group is heavier, and it is more important for Jinan. At present, the company is in accordance with the Jinan Municipal Government to prepare the "Jinan Commercial and Trade Service-oriented National Logistics Hub Construction Plan", to promote the construction of the Jinan Central High-end Logistics Cluster Area to make up for the shortcomings of the project, the main body has been completed, next year will be completed and put into use, the stock improvement project is progressing in an orderly manner.
The company practices the concept of green development, uses nearly 500,000 square meters of high-standard warehouse roof, invests 350 million yuan in Gastron Park, and builds a 50 megawatt solar photovoltaic rooftop power station project, with an annual power generation of 62.5 million kWh, saving 7,681.25 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 3,700 tons, which has significant economic and social benefits.
The social benefits created by Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group are far more than this, it drives entrepreneurship and employment of 55,000 people, provides professional and comprehensive services for 11,000 customers, incubates and cultivates 902 logistics enterprises, and becomes a veritable logistics innovation and entrepreneurship incubation base......
Build an important regional logistics center in the country
As the main investment and operation body of Jinan's commercial and service-oriented national logistics hub, the achievements of Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group are only the epitome of the high-quality development of Jinan's logistics industry.
Wang Lei, deputy secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Jinan Port and Logistics Office, said that they will unswervingly build an important regional logistics center in the country around the goal of "channel + hub + network" modern logistics operation system, promote the development of domestic logistics and international multimodal transport, and strive to work open interconnection, structural optimization, power cultivation and efficiency improvement, and strive to do a good job in "channel service logistics, logistics to promote trade, trade to drive industry, industry to help development" article.
This year is the city's "project breakthrough year", Jinan Port and Logistics Office firmly establishes the concept of "project is king", strengthens the guarantee of elements, and seeks breakthroughs in the efficient implementation and production of key projects. The city's 59 "14th Five-Year Plan" modern logistics network projects have a total investment of about 51.814 billion yuan, and a total investment of 13.697 billion yuan has been completed, with an annual investment of 4.069 billion yuan from January to October, with a completion rate of 92%.
This year, 31 projects, including the Jinan commercial and service-oriented national logistics hub incremental short-board project, the Wellkang national backbone cold chain logistics base, and the consumer goods distribution center in northern China, have been successfully started, of which 10 projects such as the Shandong high-speed "Qilu" Eurasian train (Jinan) assembly center are about to be put into use.
From January to October this year, the revenue of logistics enterprises in Jinan was 78.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%, and there are more than 130 logistics enterprises above the national 3A level, including 17 5A-level enterprises, ranking in the forefront of similar cities in the country.
In terms of international logistics, the Jinan China-Europe train has exceeded 3,000 trains, with 13 routes, reaching 47 cities in 20 countries, and the number of trains will exceed 1,000 this year. Four passenger routes in Bangkok, Singapore, Nha Trang and Osaka have been resumed, two passenger routes in Seoul and Hong Kong, China have been encrypted, and new passenger and cargo routes such as Sydney, New York, London and Phnom Penh have been opened, and the network layout of international (regional) routes has been continuously optimized.
The function of Jinan Port has been continuously improved, the function of the designated port for imported edible aquatic animals has been officially restored, and the pilot cross-border international mail transport business of China-Europe Express has been carried out, and the reform of the customs clearance mode of "early declaration" and "two-step declaration" has been deepened, and the application of "single window" has been vigorously promoted to continuously reduce the customs clearance time. At present, the number of regulatory documents that need to be verified in the import and export links has been reduced from 86 to 46, and the overall customs clearance time for imports and exports has been reduced by 68.8% and 97.1% respectively compared with 2017.
Jinan has also actively promoted regional cooperation, issued an initiative to establish a coordination and promotion mechanism for modern logistics work in the Yellow River Basin, deepened logistics cooperation among nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River, and took the lead in establishing a cooperation mechanism for China-Europe freight trains in cities along the Yellow River in the province, and established strategic cooperation mechanisms with border ports such as Khorgos to improve the efficiency of China-Europe freight train shipments.
Green will become the main line of high-quality development of logistics
Guo Zhaoming, deputy secretary-general of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, vice president and secretary-general of the China Society of Logistics, said that 2023 is a year of economic recovery and development after the three-year new crown epidemic prevention and control transition, and the mainland's logistics industry has generally maintained a recovery trend; from January to October, the total social logistics volume of the country was 278.3 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%, and the total revenue of the logistics industry was 10.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4%, both of which achieved a steady recovery.
In terms of structure, in key areas such as manufacturing upgrading, new forms of consumption, and the "new three" of new energy (electric manned vehicles, solar cells, and lithium batteries), logistics demand continues to grow, showing strong vitality. As the industry gradually moves towards the middle and high-end, the release of supply chain logistics demand drives the improvement of supply capacity, and there is huge room for deepening the integration of industrial supply chain and logistics service chain.
In terms of driving investment in logistics infrastructure, the list of a new batch of national logistics hubs, demonstration logistics parks, and multimodal transport demonstration projects was officially released. The integration of digital and real has also entered a new stage, and the smart logistics platform represented by digital freight is leading the development, which is helping small and medium-sized enterprises to cross the digital divide and build a new logistics ecology of collaboration and symbiosis.
Guo Zhaoming believes that in 2024, the development of China's logistics industry will show several development trends: First, the structure will change, and the demand contribution will continue to differentiate. Relying on the advantages of the super-large-scale market, the contribution of consumption to logistics demand will grow steadily, and the manufacturing industry is moving towards the middle and high-end, and lean logistics and supply chain services have become the growth points. Service experience, fulfillment capabilities, and safety and controllability will be more important.
Second, there is still potential to improve quality and efficiency and reduce costs. There is basically no room for extensive cost reduction by simply reducing transportation and warehousing prices, and gradually turning to "quality and efficiency cost reduction" focusing on improving quality and efficiency. Through resource integration, process optimization, and organizational adjustment, there is a huge space for reducing logistics "waste".
The third is the digitalization of logistics, and the integration of data and reality will enter a new stage. With the rapid advancement of the construction of a network power and digital China, the optimization and upgrading of network infrastructure in mainland China, the construction of new information infrastructure such as 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, and the rapid development of emerging services such as data centers, cloud computing, and big data, the scale of Internet of Things users will continue to expand, and the integration of the digital economy and the real economy will continue to deepen. Relying on the advantages of digitalization is the key to creating new growth points for logistics development.
Fourth, greening will become the main line of high-quality development of logistics. Green, low-carbon and sustainable development has become the consensus of all walks of life around the world, in the mainland, green warehousing, green packaging, green distribution has gradually become the industry consensus, energy-saving and environmental protection logistics facilities, new energy distribution vehicles will be 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 logistics as a green carrier.
The manufacturing industry will be a new blue ocean for logistics enterprises
Jinan is a commercial service-oriented national logistics hub, with a developed commerce and trade industry, but with the advancement of a strong industrial city, the demand for manufacturing logistics is becoming more and more vigorous. According to data from the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Statistics, from January to November this year, the added value of industries above designated size in Jinan increased by 12.6% year-on-year, maintaining a rapid growth rate.
From January to November this year, the total added value of Jinan's six key industries increased by 22.7%, 1 percentage point faster than that from January to October, and 10.1 percentage points higher than the average of industries above designated size. Among them, the automobile manufacturing industry increased by 134.1 percent, the computer communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry increased by 22.6 percent, the general equipment manufacturing industry increased by 18 percent, and the petroleum, coal and other fuel processing industry increased by 7.3 percent.
Huang Dongliang, deputy director of SINOTRUK Intelligent Logistics Center, said that the integrated development of manufacturing and logistics will create more new opportunities. In 2022, the output value of the mainland's manufacturing industry accounted for 30% of the global manufacturing industry, ranking first in the world for 13 consecutive years, and the mainland's automobile sales in 2022 were 26.86 million units, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years.
At present, the manufacturing industry is high-end, low-carbon, intelligent, and digitally upgraded, and there are 132 lighthouse factories in the world and 50 in China, representing the highest level of intelligent manufacturing.
Manufacturing enterprises need a one-stop solution, from supply logistics to production logistics, including warehousing, sorting, distribution, and then to market sales, and need third-party logistics to improve supply chain service capabilities. However, the current situation is that although the logistics market cake is large, the head logistics companies are mainly concentrated in the express delivery industry, with high professionalism in the manufacturing industry, long chain, strong customer demand, but lack of professional logistics service providers.
Government, industry, academia and research work together to promote the digital and intelligent development of the logistics industry
The development potential of the logistics market is huge, and it is inseparable from innovative talents. The reporter noted that the Yellow River Basin Smart Green Logistics Collaborative Innovation Center established in Jinan was initiated by some well-known universities in the central cities of the Yellow River Basin, and with the strong support of government departments, it was jointly established by leading enterprises, scientific research institutions, industry associations, etc.
The center will take the collaboration of government, industry, academia and research to promote the high-quality development of the logistics industry in the Yellow River Basin as its own responsibility, relying on the intellectual resources and platform advantages of universities, to jointly carry out collaborative innovation work such as scientific research, academic exchanges, discipline construction, talent training, team building, government-industry-university-research cooperation, decision-making consultation, and achievement transformation, so as to provide important intellectual support for the high-quality development of the logistics industry in the Yellow River Basin and the construction of a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pilot zone in Shandong.
In fact, Jinan universities and enterprises have had a lot of exploration and practice in logistics industry, education and research. In 2007, the University of Jinan set up a teaching practice base in Shandong Gaishi International Group, and in 2015, the two sides invested in the construction of a cooperative training base for master's degree students in logistics engineering, which was recognized as a provincial postgraduate training base by the Provincial Department of Education.
In 2020, the "University of Jinan-Gaishi Logistics Shandong Province Industry-Education Integration Graduate Joint Training Demonstration Base" was approved, and in December 2021, Jinan's first logistics industry-education integration graduate training base was officially listed in Gaishi Group.
In June 2022, the University of Jinan and Shandong Gaishi International Logistics Group jointly participated in the signing event of the school-enterprise-local youth innovation platform project for the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, marking another comprehensive upgrade of the two sides in promoting the integration of industry and education and giving full play to the role of the main body of the enterprise.
Analysts believe that in recent years, with the continuous transformation of the logistics industry to the direction of digital intelligence, the industrial structure has been accelerated, and the employment structure has undergone corresponding changes. The integration of industry and education is an important way to realize the organic connection and effective cooperation between schools and enterprises, school administration, and schools and localities, and will provide talent support for the high-quality development of Jinan's logistics industry, which is of great significance. (Jinan Daily reporter: Liu Biao)
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