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City logistics plays an important role in the “last-mile” of modern logistics, improves the livelihood of urban citizens, and ensures the normal operation of urban society and economy. In recent years, China continues to optimize its city logistics development environment, improve its city logistics infrastructures, and make innovations in its urban terminal distribution models. The country is gradually establishing efficient, green and convenient service system of city logistics.
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Urbanization rate refers to the proportion of permanent urban residents in total permanent population in a region.
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“Crowd-funding,” evolved in the area of Internet finance, refers to a behavior involving the initiator, the investors and the platform, which raises funds from the masses to support and initiate some investment project. Generally, Crowd-funding links the sponsors and the proposers through the network platform. At present, it is widely adopted in projects such as post-disaster reconstruction, folk financing, election campaign, fundraising for startups, artistic creation, free software, design and invention, scientific research and public financing. With the development of Internet platforms, the idea of “participation by all” from Crowd-funding has gradually extended to many non-financial fields, and become known as “Crowd-sourcing.”
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“Crowd-sourcing” of logistics delivery service: demand information of the last-mile delivery service of the e-commerce express is published on the Internet platform, and some franchised part-time delivery personnel would respond to a specific delivery need according to their own trip schedule and free time, and provide the logistics delivery and payment services according to corresponding service process.
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“3+10+N” means three inter-city distribution allocation centers, ten city distribution centers and a multitude of terminal joint delivery nodes to covering numerous communities.
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Xiao, J. (2017). Development of City Logistics in China. In: Jiao, Zl., Lee, Sj., Wang, L., Liu, Bl. (eds) Contemporary Logistics in China . Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4178-5_7
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