Affected by the overseas epidemic, the risk of contamination of cold chain links has increased. To this end, in accordance with the unified deployment of the General Administration of Customs, the Food Bureau has strengthened the source control of imported cold chain food and adopted measures such as insisting on moving forward at the customs, carrying out remote video inspections, and suspending product imports.

   At the moment of the epidemic, how can the cold chain logistics industry transform and upgrade under the special economic environment? How can we grasp this key node of transformation and upgrading?

   Cui Zhongfu, vice chairman and secretary-general of China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, believes that the former food cold chain companies face five major challenges including survival, operation, safety management, global supply chain impact, and brain drain.

   In order to meet the challenge and grasp the key points of transformation and upgrading, Cui Zhongfu said that the key to multi-party coordination and building a flexible food cold chain supply chain system. In this regard, it is necessary to strengthen the linkage and cooperation between the government and multi-party enterprises, sort out the food cold chain processes and plans, establish a linkage cooperation mechanism, and ensure the circulation of the food cold chain through multiple forces. Innovate the supply chain organization model, continue to optimize cross-departmental, cross-regional, cross-border, cross-industry information sharing and organizational coordination mechanisms, create a diversified supply body, continue to deepen cooperation with surrounding regions, and form efficient linkages on a global scale. Establish a clear green channel and policy system, standardize operating procedures and standards for emergency links, and provide comprehensive support from the policy. Through multi-party coordination, the whole-process immunity of the food cold chain is enhanced, and a flexible food cold chain supply chain system is created.

   Because cold chain logistics is very professional and non-standard, large and strong, small and beautiful enterprises can coexist and coexist. But it is undeniable that fierce competition is an indisputable fact in the stock market of traditional warehouse transportation and cold chain logistics. Many companies have therefore begun to explore the incremental market of the cold chain, looking for new growth poles. In addition, the export of agricultural products and the cold chain logistics and transportation complement each other. With the continuous development of cold chain technology, only high-value off-season products and high-quality agricultural products with regional characteristics can continue to go out of the region and circulate on a global scale. The farther the distance, the value of agricultural products The higher, cold chain transportation has promoted the realization of market expansion and alleviated slow sales. At the same time, the whole cold chain can keep agricultural products in a low temperature environment during transportation, ensuring safety and quality, and reducing losses. According to statistics, cold chain transportation is currently used The loss rate is about 5%. Cui Zhongfu suggested that cold chain logistics companies should be demand-oriented and expand new food cold chain models and new markets. In addition, there is also a huge market space in areas such as new catering, community retail, and cross-border frozen products cold chain.

   It is worth noting that since last year, in the field of logistics, the change of the Internet of Things has penetrated from a single scene to the entire production factor, the entire industry chain, and the entire scene, and it has entered an acceleration stage. Cold chain logistics is no exception. Do everything possible to improve efficiency through technology and the Internet of Things has become the choice of more and more companies. Through the construction of intelligent infrastructure such as big data and cloud computing, everyone digitizes the information of each logistics link and realizes online connection, and promotes the transparency of the cold chain logistics process. Cui Zhongfu said that only by empowering every link of the cold chain with intelligent technology can we achieve quality improvement, efficiency improvement and cost reduction.

"The current stage is a painful period for the transformation and upgrading of the cold chain industry. It will take time for favorable policies to be implemented. The spillover effect has not yet appeared. The market demand has not yet fully exploded. Consumers’ cold chain awareness still needs to be cultivated. The industry is no longer growing at a rapid rate. Dividends are waning, and more will be inventory game and optimization. Collaborative integration and ecological construction will become the main development characteristics." Cui Zhongfu said that this requires relevant industry departments to work together to build a new ecosystem of food cold chains. At present, there are many cases of strong alliances in the industry, which not only form business cooperation with logistics counterparts, but also form different forms of cooperative relations with resource parties and scientific research institutions, and even cross-border marketing cooperation. "Breaking barriers, multi-party coordination, remodeling and rebuilding is the new way to cater to the new economic environment and sustainable development."