“I just came back from Australia and compared it, China's cold chain logistics is equivalent to Australia’s level in the 1980s, and I saw a picture of cold storage in the early 20th century in Chicago, even compared to some of our wholesale markets now. Specification.” said Qin Yuming, secretary general of the Cold Chain Logistics Professional Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.

“The logistics cost of fresh agricultural products in China accounts for 30% to 40% of the total cost, Europe and the United States only 10%, the loss rate is 25% to 30%, Europe and the United States less than 5%. Each year, the value of broken fruits and vegetables due to transportation and storage is about 1,000. Billion.” The Kingdom expressed its own point of view using “data”, but at the same time he also saw the development space that the gap was vacated. Therefore, China’s cold chain logistics was called “Blue Ocean” to be developed.

What is the development space for fresh produce cold chain logistics? According to Liu Yuan, an inspector of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, one of the outstanding problems in the circulation of fresh produce in our province is the lack of necessary cold chain systems and corresponding technical and management support. The cold chain circulation rate of fruits and vegetables and meat is only 10%. About 25%. Qin Yuming believes that 90% and 75% of cold chain circulation is not the future development space for Sichuan cold chain logistics.

The gray zone badly needs "lighting"

Why develop cold chain logistics? "Food safety" was ranked as the number one reason.

Zhou Wenzhao, the general manager of Hainan Excellence Agriculture Union Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., has lived abroad for many years. He said that when he returned to China, he discovered that many fruits were sold from the fields and the only thing he had was the consumer's own refrigerator. "I was surprised."

Qin Yuming called the food transportation and warehousing process a "grey zone." “Why some ice cream will be deformed, some frozen dumplings have ice on the surface? This shows that the food is frozen and frozen during transportation and storage, and it is inevitable that bacteria will accelerate reproduction during this process.”

Li Shaoming, deputy general manager of Yurun's Sichuan International Agricultural Products Trading Center, also saw another benefit of developing cold chain logistics - stabilizing prices of fruits and vegetables. "The phenomenon of buying hard sells is often found in the agricultural product market, and cold chain logistics can play a role in supply and demand and balancing prices, such as the use of cold storage to adjust the peak load adjustment." Li Shaoming recommends that the government use cold chain logistics to establish long-term stable mechanisms. Agricultural prices.

"The development needs of e-commerce also spur the rapid development of cold-chain logistics." Wang Guoli said that the Internet era has extended the radiation radius of agricultural products, and many e-commerce companies are "testing" cold-chain logistics, but it is more difficult, "Open a Look, most of the sale is limited to the city, selling far away are like walnuts."

What are the imperatives for establishing standards that hinder the development of cold chain logistics? In addition to costs, many experts stated that the lack of industry standards and market regulations are the main reasons.

"Now is the era of "quilt trucks" and "straw trucks", and low-cost squeezes the development space for cold chain logistics." Xie Bin, chairman of Chengdu Yinli Cold Chain Logistics, called on the government to speed up the industry standards and policies for cold chain logistics. The formulation of laws and regulations was implemented.

“We have tried third-party cold-chain logistics in the fruit and vegetable distribution center in Pengzhou. However, on the one hand, the cold-chain logistics industry lacks standards and is prone to disputes. On the other hand, most of the agricultural products do not have quality standards from 'birth'. Purchasers generally have to The bargaining price at the site is difficult to adapt to third-party logistics.” Li Shaoming believes that, in addition to industry norms, the basis for the development of cold-chain logistics is to promote the scale and standardization of agricultural production, and to increase the added value of agricultural products through pre-cooling and packaging.

For the ideal cold-chain logistics industry chain, Qin Yuming thinks that it should be “four-tier, one-line production base pre-cooling, cold chain transportation, city distribution center, sales terminal”, and it can even be directly from the production area to the terminal. "The fewer the intermediate links, the lower the cost and the less likely the 'broken chain' will be." Qin Yuming suggested that the government should make certain plans for cold storage in production areas and distribution centers in the city, and set standards to guide the orderly development of third-party cold chain logistics. .