"Logistics Collaborative Development Initiative for Sichuan, Chongqing, Northeastern and Western Hubei Regions" was released, calling for the joint construction of multimodal transport hub clusters

As one of the industry development seminar activities of the 4th Chongqing Three Gorges Talent Festival, the Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation and Development Talent Seminar was held in Wanzhou, Chongqing on the 8th. At the scene, the "Logistics Collaborative Development Initiative for Sichuan, Chongqing, Northeastern and Western Hubei Regions" (hereinafter referred to as the "Initiative") was officially released.

Northeastern Sichuan and Chongqing and western Hubei are connected by mountains and rivers, geographically close, and industries are integrated. They sit on the two strategic corridors of the Yangtze River golden waterway and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor. They are rich in hub resources such as ports, railways, and highways. They are the key nodes for the intersection of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor.

At the same time, the logistics network has been included in the "six networks" planned and constructed by the country, and the regional logistics demand for bulk materials, industrial raw materials, and specialty agricultural products continues to grow. How to seize the opportunity of channel construction, break down administrative barriers, integrate hub resources, smooth the supply chain industry chain, and promote the high-quality development of regional logistics integration has become a common issue faced by Northeast Sichuan, Chongqing, and Western Hubei.

The "Initiative" targets relevant districts and counties, port platforms, logistics companies, and industrial parks in northeastern Sichuan, Chongqing, and western Hubei, and proposes to jointly build a network of intermodal transport channels to achieve complementary and mutually beneficial channels. All parties should leverage the complementary advantages of the Yangtze River trunk line and inland railway trunk lines, rely on the Three Gorges navigation dispatch, optimize the material diversion organization, effectively alleviate the navigation pressure on the ship locks, build a comprehensive transportation network that is water-land linkage, two-way supply guarantee, safe and reliable, and improve channel resilience and emergency supply capability.

The "Initiative" recommends sharing hub resource endowments and promoting dislocation and coordinated development. All parties should strengthen the linkage of inland railway collection and distribution and port transfer and distribution functions, coordinate the container and bulk cargo operating systems, and work together to build a multimodal transportation distribution hub cluster in Northeast Sichuan, Chongqing, and Western Hubei, and improve the overall efficiency of regional cargo collection and distribution.

The "Initiative" calls for the establishment of a normalized logistics docking mechanism between Sichuan, Chongqing, Northeast and Western Hubei, and promote the exchange and sharing of cargo source information, transportation capacity information, and policy information. All parties should jointly carry out market cultivation, train operation, and channel promotion to jointly expand domestic and overseas markets. At the same time, they should unify and standardize logistics service standards, work together to obtain channel support policies, work together to build a regional multimodal transport brand, and promote the transformation from single-point development to cluster linkage and group empowerment.

In addition to the content of the Initiative, participating experts also put forward their opinions on the construction of logistics networks. In terms of improving the hub economy in the Three Gorges region, Wang Yanqing, vice president of the China Logistics Society, suggested that the construction of the logistics network and the improvement of logistics hub operations should be promoted in a coordinated manner, the construction of the logistics hub economic zone in the Three Gorges region should be accelerated, the innovation of factor integration and hub economic development should be strengthened, and the planning of innovative scenarios and the cultivation of kinetic energy projects should be strengthened.

In terms of the transformation of logistics enterprises, Wang Ming, a senior consultant at the China Academy of Macroeconomics (a national high-end think tank) and former director and researcher of the National Development and Reform Commission's Comprehensive Transportation Research Institute, believes that new service formats should be cultivated in the process of effectively reducing the cost of modern logistics for the whole society, exploring new growth models for modern logistics business in the context of narrowing space for incremental growth in logistics, and expanding new paths for value creation in modern supply chains through industrial chain supply chain collaboration. (over)