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This chapter describes the progress in the development of transportation infrastructures, logistic nodes and channels in China in 2014; it also elaborates on the latest development of logistics facilities, logistics IT development and standardization, guided and driven by the “One Belt and One Road” initiative and the national strategy of “Yangtze River Economic Belt,” the scale of China’s transportation infrastructures was further expanded; its comprehensive transportation network was improved, its layout of logistics parks (centers) became more rational, and logistics parks were evidently transformed and upgraded. Meanwhile, the technological level of logistics facilities was elevated, and the number of automatic and environmentally-friendly facilities kept increasing. Application of IT and Internet technologies was deepened in the field of logistics, and logistics standardization process was carried on orderly.
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Since the land area for warehousing was not specified separately by the National Bureau of Statistics, the land area of industrial, mining and warehousing is cited here to give an indication of the overall change.
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CFLP refers to China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing.
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Transfar’s “Intelligent Highway Port” model refers to using IOT technologies, on the basis of traditional highway ports, to integrate the online information command system with offline logistics comprehensive supporting service system, thus realizing intelligent operations of highway port and improving the logistics efficiency.
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Qin, F. (2016). Logistics Facilities and Technological Development. In: Wang, L., Lee, Sj., Chen, P., Jiang, Xm., Liu, Bl. (eds) Contemporary Logistics in China. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1052-1_2
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