Adhering to the purpose of promoting industrial upgrading and improving the efficiency of logistics operation and high-quality development, the closed meeting of the 2019 National Logistics Hub Construction Seminar on the theme of “Community Building, Cooperation and Win-Win” was successfully held in Hangzhou on July 4. The seminar took advantage of the 19th China International Transportation and Logistics Expo to announce the pilot city as an opportunity to interpret the planning content on the spot, explore the requirements of the pilot work, plan the details of the landing, and draw the future of the hub economy.

The seminar was attended by Ma Liqiang, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the former State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Ni Kuang, Co-Chairman of the China Logistics City Alliance, and Executive Director and Secretary General of the China Property Expo Organizing Committee, and Zhang Jiangbo, Deputy Director of the Economic and Trade Department of the National Development and Reform Commission.

The guests at the seminar made an in-depth discussion on “Introduction to the logistics hub project”, “Improvement of the ideas and related measures for the construction of the national logistics hubs”, “The role of enterprises in the construction of logistics hubs and the work that needs local government support and assistance”.

Zhang Jiangbo, deputy director of the Department of Economics and Trade of the National Development and Reform Commission, comprehensively and comprehensively interpreted the background, significance, main content, development goals and actions of the National Logistics Hub Layout and Construction Plan. He said that the release of the plan is a trend-oriented and timely move. Its release is conducive to improving the quality and efficiency of development; it is conducive to balancing regional coordinated development, strengthening the flow of elements in the eastern, central and western regions; and helping to improve the international competitiveness of the industrial park. Conducive to fostering the development of a hub economy. At the same time, Zhang Jiangbo also conducted an in-depth interpretation of the specific contents of the "Planning", including major cities, policy guarantees, and major tasks. He pointed out that the stock logistics infrastructure needs to be integrated and improved as soon as possible. "The status quo." In addition, he also said that the first batch of national logistics hub cities declaration work has entered the middle and late stage, and it is expected that the National Development and Reform Commission will announce it soon. He also pointed out that it is necessary for all parties to seriously study policy planning and strengthen linkage with the host city.

Zhang Yun, an expert in the Urban Logistics Research Center and chairman and general manager of Fablog Logistics Consulting, gave a speech on “Improving the ideas and related measures for the construction of a national logistics hub”. She believes that the relevant work should be promoted from four aspects: First, the state should introduce an audit and evaluation mechanism as soon as possible to guide the sound development of the logistics hub; second, to improve soft services, China's current transportation hardware facilities are leading the world, but software services are still Urgent need to improve; Third, the industry gathers, all parties should gather the advantages of all parties according to the requirements of the supply chain industry, and integrate the resources of all parties; Fourth, prepare the plan, which requires the government to carry out cross-department, cross-industry, cross-city, cross-infrastructure, cross-standard planning.

With the advancement of the “Belt and Road” construction, the hub economy has become the focus. At the end of December last year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Transport and other relevant departments formulated and released the “National Logistics Hub Layout and Construction Plan”, including 212 national logistics hubs, and 127 host cities with location and industrial advantages. Come to new development opportunities. In April this year, the “National Logistics Hub Network Construction Plan (2019-2020)” was issued, and the first batch of 15 pilot cities were coming out, which triggered strong social attention. The issuance of the "Implementation Plan" marks the full launch of the national logistics hub layout and construction work, and is an economic development and upgrading opportunity for enterprises and cities.

（Source: Logistics Times Weekly）