Recently, two local conferences have been held. Reducing logistics costs, opening up the "last mile" of rural logistics, and strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of new business operators have become the focus of attention of the representatives of the local two sessions. The work reports of many local governments send a clear signal that in 2024, we should make real policies to promote cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency increase of transportation and logistics, and lay a more solid foundation for high-quality development of the logistics industry.
01. Adjust transportation structure to reduce logistics cost
In recent years, the optimization and adjustment of transportation structure has entered a new stage. It has become the focus of government work in many places in 2024 to open their work reports, adjust the transport structure, strengthen logistics information sharing, and focus on reducing logistics costs.
Hebei proposes to implement the action of effectively reducing logistics cost, and accelerate the construction of national logistics hub and modern circulation strategic fulcrum city; Zhejiang proposes to vigorously develop multimodal transport, accelerate the construction of major collection and distribution projects of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the Yangtze River Delta air cargo hub, the Yangtze River Delta China Europe Train Hub and other projects; Tianjin proposes to build a comprehensive information service sharing platform for port logistics, give full play to the advantages of the comprehensive bonded zone, and promote the accelerated agglomeration of modern logistics, cold chain value-added, cross-border e-commerce and other port appropriate industries
Around the adjustment of transportation structure, some representative members also actively made suggestions and suggestions in combination with the actual development of various regions. Zhang Hao, member of the CPPCC Heilongjiang Provincial Committee, deputy director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the CPPCC Heilongjiang Provincial Committee, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Heilongjiang Maritime Safety Administration, proposed that more measures should be taken to further release the vitality of water transport. He proposed to steadily improve the navigation standards of Harbin Jiamusi section and Jiamusi Fujin section of the Songhua River, and accelerate the development and application of standardization of ship types in Heilongjiang river system; We will strive to build large tonnage, shallow draft and new energy ships to adapt to the characteristics of Heilongjiang water system, realize barrier free and low-cost transportation of ores, coal, grain, crude oil, machinery and equipment, and large cargo, and expand the water transportation channels for cargo trade.
In order to build an important strategic hinterland of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Peng Daiyuan, deputy to the National People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and mayor of Hezhou City, suggested that we should give full play to the advantages of railway stations, dry ports, docks and ports, vigorously develop multimodal transport such as highway, rail and sea, and improve logistics efficiency. A number of super charging stations will be built in the main backbone road network of Guangxi and Guangdong, and preferential policies will be implemented for new energy pure electric heavy trucks, logistics freight vehicles, etc. to reduce logistics transportation costs.
By integrating the local surrounding railway, highway, water and air logistics resources, the logistics channel will be more smooth, and the local specialty goods will go to a broader market, effectively helping the revitalization of the local industry. "Huaihua International Inland Port provides a convenient way for us to go to sea." Yang Jing, a deputy to the People's Congress of Hunan Province and chairman of Huaihua Tiantian Food Technology Co., Ltd., said that there were 455 trains in Huaihua International Inland Port throughout the year, and many agricultural products, such as crystal sugar orange, tea, bamboo products, as well as industrial products, such as bags and small agricultural machinery, went to the world through Huaihua International Inland Port. In 2023, Huaihua's import and export will break through the 10 billion yuan threshold for the first time, ranking first in the province in terms of growth. In the future, more and more "nostalgic products" will go to the international market.
02. Improve the rural delivery system to get through the "last mile"
Rural logistics leads agricultural products into cities to increase farmers' income, and leads consumer goods into the countryside to meet farmers' needs for a better life. At this year's NPC and CPPCC sessions, improving the construction of the county and rural three-level delivery logistics system, and accelerating the construction of a modern rural commerce and trade network, logistics network, and cold chain network of origin with complete facilities, intensive sharing, safety, efficiency, and two-way smoothness became one of the focuses of the delegates.
Zhang Zongliang, member of the CPPCC Hebei Provincial Committee and secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of the Hebei Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd., said that on the basis of village to village postal service, the "express to village" project puts forward higher requirements for the county mail processing capacity and joint distribution of village level postal routes. However, Hebei has many counties under its jurisdiction, and the construction of the county and village three-level delivery logistics system involves a wide range of areas, The investment in basic capacity building is large, which requires the integration of multiple resources. He suggested that the government should take the lead and the post should be the main business. The equipment and facilities of the county and township level postal co distribution centers and village level convenient service stations should be included in the construction scope of public service facilities, and more support should be given to postal enterprises in terms of investment in sites, equipment, vehicles, etc., so as to improve the delivery service capacity in rural areas.
At present, the meat decay rate in China is about 12%, and the fruit and vegetable consumption rate is as high as 20% to 30%, while the developed countries' consumption rate under the guarantee of cold chain logistics is less than 10%. Luo Ling, a deputy to Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and chairman of Guangdong Nanhai Industry Group Co., Ltd., said that the high logistics cost and corruption rate of agricultural products in China were mainly due to high supply chain costs and insufficient construction of cold chain logistics infrastructure. She suggested that we should reasonably plan and layout the construction of refrigeration and fresh-keeping facilities in agricultural production areas, focus on supporting the construction of mobile cold chain facilities in the field, and complement the short board of "the first kilometer" and "the last kilometer" facility construction. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the research, development and application of cold chain logistics facilities and equipment and advanced refrigeration equipment. For different cold chain freight scenarios, it is necessary to achieve a direct delivery from the "field" to the "tongue" in one warehouse, achieve the three-end integration of the production end, the circulation end and the consumer end, and reduce the cold chain logistics transfer and handling costs without reverse transportation.
In 2024, various regions also put forward a series of goals to promote the high-quality development of rural logistics. For example, Tianjin proposes to vigorously develop rural logistics and form a commodity circulation network that connects both inside and outside, covers both urban and rural areas, and facilitates the flow of goods; Yunnan proposes to implement the construction of county commercial system to promote the integrated development of rural passenger, cargo and mail; Hebei proposed to strengthen the construction of agricultural cold chain system and develop agricultural products e-commerce and other forms of business.
Looking forward to 2024, the development of rural logistics network will be more and more smooth, and the supporting logistics facilities will be more and more complete, which will effectively glow the new vitality of rural industries and promote the overall revitalization of rural areas.
03. Promote the new type of employment to join the Association and strengthen the protection of rights and interests
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the protection of the rights and interests of new business practitioners and the employment environment. "At present, there are a large number of new business practitioners, such as couriers, delivery workers and truck drivers. Their labor relationship with the platform company is not clear, which makes it difficult for the platform company to provide adequate protection for practitioners when their personal and property are damaged." Lu Wei, member of the CPPCC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, member of the party group of the Zhejiang Federation of Trade Unions, and vice chairman, said.
Therefore, how to strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests in flexible employment and new forms of employment has become a topic of concern for the delegates of the NPC and CPPCC this year. Many representatives of the NPC and CPPCC proposed that new business types should be included in the trade union, and employees should be allowed to pay five insurances and one fund in their own names.
Gu Cong, a deputy to the People's Congress of Hebei Province and the regional business manager of Hebei Shunfeng Express Co., Ltd., said that the social security issue is the focus of the protection of the rights and interests of employees in the new business, and can also enhance the sense of security of employees in the new business. He suggested improving the social insurance payment for front-line express practitioners, and paying accident insurance and industrial injury insurance for indirect employees.
Sun Qiang, member of the CPPCC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, chairman of Jiangsu Qiangdong Logistics Co., Ltd., and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the express industry in Yancheng, said that vague labor relations and frequent personnel mobility have led to low recognition of their careers and weak sense of job honor among truck drivers, express brothers and other groups. He suggested that a comprehensive service network involving multiple parties should be built in skills competition, advanced tree selection, assistance in difficulties, road rescue and other aspects to enhance the sense of honor, belonging and security of truck drivers.
In addition, at this year's two sessions, the representative committee members put forward many suggestions on the practical problems encountered in the work and life of new business practitioners, such as reducing the cost of the platform, solving the problem of difficulty for delivery workers to enter the community, ensuring the reasonable income of courier fees, and continuously reducing the internal unreasonable fines.
The concern of the representative members has also been valued by many local government departments and included in the 2024 work plan. In the government work report, Hebei proposed to implement the action of expanding the scope and improving the quality of social security, promote flexible employment, new business employment and other groups to participate in insurance, and improve the basic pension standards for urban and rural residents. Tianjin proposed to carry out free physical examination for workers in difficult living conditions, front-line migrant workers in special posts and workers in new employment forms. These heartwarming measures will lift "steady happiness" for new business practitioners.
