Secretary general of the China international freight forwarders association Liu Xuede believes that in 2016 China's economic development of the new situation brought opportunities for freight logistics industry, especially with the "area" construction speed, connectivity, capacity, cooperation, and cooperation to develop the industrial park and other major projects led to the project logistics, china-eu emerging professional logistics such as trains, cross-border electricity explosive growth.
Since the reform and opening up, China's international freight forwarding industry has ushered in rapid development, and has played an important role in expanding foreign trade, attracting foreign investment, expanding employment, promoting the development of third-party logistics and other aspects. Now, with the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and the booming cross-border e-commerce, the development of international freight forwarders is expected to enter a new chapter.
The Development Report of China International Freight Forwarding Industry is based on the record data of international freight forwarding enterprises of the Ministry of Commerce in 2016, combined with the operation data of top 100 freight forwarding enterprises in that year, and reflects the current situation and characteristics of China's international freight forwarding industry more completely.
"The transformation and upgrading of China's foreign trade and economic cooperation has been accelerated, and the improvement of shipping e-commerce and supply chain management has made the operation of traditional freight forwarding enterprises face unprecedented pressure. At the same time, the accelerated connectivity brought about by the Belt and Road initiative, as well as the rise of consumption upgrading and urbanization in China