Where does the "new kinetic energy" of the logistics industry come from?

In the current era of great development, great changes, and great adjustments, the pace of social transformation and innovation has never stopped. The growth of the world economy requires new power, and the development of the logistics industry also requires a new level of innovation power. The new forces such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and the sharing economy are quietly changing the industry and becoming a new driving force for industrial transformation and upgrading.

The origin of the new kinetic theme

At present, my country's economic development is at a new normal, and at the same time it is at the critical stage of accelerating the formation of new functions and the continuous conversion of new and old kinetic energy.

From the overall perspective of macroeconomic development, China's economic development has many potentials for growth momentum, especially in high-tech, new business models, and new needs. There are multiple development potentials, and we urgently need the overall situation of reform and opening up China continues to deepen supply-side structural reforms, deepen opening-up, encourage innovation, break down institutional and institutional barriers in the process of economic and social development, continuously stimulate the development vitality of the entire society and increase the vitality of new kinetic energy, and achieve a higher level of development for the national economy, while It also provides new momentum for more sustained and stable growth to create some good development environment.

Under such a big background, the development of the logistics industry is also in a critical transformation stage. After nearly 40 years of rapid development, my country's logistics industry is at a critical stage of speed adjustment and structural transformation. At the same time, a series of striking new trends and new kinetic energy have emerged. How to more effectively stimulate the vitality of the development of the logistics industry and cultivate, stimulate and strengthen the new kinetic energy for development is a problem that the logistics industry should pay close attention to.

More kinetic energy helps the logistics industry

From a research perspective, there are many sources of new kinetic energy in my country's logistics industry.

First, my country's logistics industry has huge development potential in catching up with growth. my country's logistics industry has developed rapidly in the past 40 years, but it still has a considerable gap with the logistics industry in developed countries in terms of structure and development efficiency.

With the per capita GDP reaching US$ 1-2 million, and the middle-income to middle-high income process, the rapid growth and acceleration of the logistics industry are very important trends and challenges in my country's economic restructuring. At present, the proportion of my country's logistics industry is 18%, which is basically close to the level of middle-income countries in developed countries, but there is still a big gap compared with the current high-income countries.

Especially in terms of the internal structure of logistics, there is a traditional structure in my country that focuses on transportation, and a new industrial structure dominated by more specialized services and more delicate and subdivided industries has not yet formed.

From the perspective of efficiency improvement and efficiency catch-up, my country's economic development space is even greater. In the past 40 years, my country's economic operation efficiency has rapidly increased, and the distance to developed countries has been continuously shortened. For example, the gap between China’s economic efficiency and that of the United States is still nearly twice that, but it’s 6 times that of 2000. There has been a very obvious improvement, and much of this efficiency improvement comes from transportation, including Logistics industry.

Obviously, in the past 20 years, the efficiency of the logistics industry has been catching up from 15 times in the past to 3.5 times at present, so it can be seen that the efficiency of transportation, logistics and other industries has contributed greatly to the economic efficiency of the entire country. of.

It is particularly noteworthy that the improvement of efficiency is closely related to the continuous improvement of our human capital and human resources. At present, my country's labor force population and newly-increased labor force have exceeded the level of education in 2011 and 2013, which means that more than 200 million people in my country's entire economy have received higher education.

In the context of continuous improvement of human resources, the use of high-quality human resources and continuous investment in new innovative elements, including knowledge, information, and big data, to improve the efficiency of the logistics industry and improve the efficiency of economic operations, it should be said that this prospect is expected, this It is the most important and basic source of new kinetic energy in the logistics industry.

Second, my country's logistics industry has greater room for growth in the formation of new kinetic energy for frontier expansion, or such kinetic energy is stronger. In the context of a new round of global technological revolution, a new generation of information technology represented by the Internet and big data; a new generation of transportation technology represented by high-speed railway, aerospace technology, and intelligent transportation; and an energy technology represented by new energy It has changed the operation pattern and the connection pattern of the economy in the world and even our country, and it has also changed the development pattern of the logistics industry in the world and China.

It is worth mentioning that the development and widespread use of modern information technology are spawning a large number of new needs, new industries, new models, and new capital based on the Internet and big data, which have injected unprecedented development momentum into the innovative development of the logistics industry. .

More importantly, the current information technology, high-speed rail technology, and energy technology are changing the global connectivity and supply chain development pattern, and will also enable China to achieve a transformation in the long-term development model with catch-up as the core. One of these areas is "parallel running" or even "leading."

In recent years, due to the use of modern technology in China's logistics industry, especially in independent research and development, including the use of high-speed rail, intelligent transportation and the Internet, a number of well-known star enterprises in the country and even some leading companies in the world are gradually emerging. . This has a great impact on the innovation and development of my country's logistics industry, so this new kinetic energy of innovation or leading edge is more powerful for my country.

Third, in the process of high integration of the domestic market and in-depth development of globalization, we will bring new momentum for the logistics industry to reshape the space. Especially with regard to globalization, despite the current trend of counter-globalization, the development pattern of globalization has not stopped, and it is speeding up. In particular, there have been some new trends in the development of globalization, from the globalization of manufacturing in the past to the service industry, and from production to the integration of the global consumer market. At the same time, developing countries are becoming the main drivers and major players in a new round of globalization. In the past, my country was mainly a passive participant, but now most developing countries, especially my country, are becoming major or active participants in globalization.