The era of rapid development of domestic cold chain is coming

According to the purchasing data of the air-conditioning and refrigeration market, the domestic cold chain logistics industry will usher in a new era of rapid development in the next 15 years. Cold chain makes food more nutritious Yu Feng, vice president of Asia Pacific of Ingersoll Rand (China) Investment Co., Ltd., explained the importance of cold chain to food from the perspective of food safety and food nutrition. Yu Feng gave an example that in the 1950s, the number of deaths due to food safety in Japan was as high as 300 per year, but now it has dropped to single digits. The reason for this is that Japan's investment in the food cold chain industry has contributed greatly.

“For every 6°C increase in temperature, the total number of colonies in food will double, and the shelf life of food will be halved.” Yu Feng said that temperature not only directly affects the storage time of food, but also affects the nutritional value of food to a large extent. “Experiments show that the nutritional value of broccoli stored in cold storage is not easy to lose, and it is more in line with nutritional requirements than broccoli stored at room temperature.” Yu Feng believes that as consumers’ food safety and nutrition concepts gradually strengthen, more and more food will be processed, transported and stored through cold chains in the future, which brings good opportunities for the development of China’s cold chain logistics industry. Chen Weixin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit and Vegetable Preservation, also said: "The loss rate of fruits and vegetables at room temperature in domestic supermarkets is as high as 20%, while fruits and vegetables transported and stored through the cold chain not only reduce the loss rate, but also preserve the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables to a greater extent."

The comprehensive cost of cold chain products is not high. Products passing through the cold chain link will increase the cost of production enterprises, which is a major obstacle to the development of the cold chain market. Liu Peijun, chairman of Kuaixingxian (Beijing) Food Logistics Co., Ltd., believes that this is a misunderstanding. Liu Peijun explained that "the standardized and efficient operation of cold chain logistics companies can effectively reduce logistics costs, thereby applying cold chain logistics to more industries. Therefore, cold chain logistics companies can help production companies save money, save costs and open up a larger market, thereby achieving a win-win situation for manufacturers and logistics companies. Of course, this requires the joint efforts of policies, associations, production companies, logistics companies and consumers." He believes that the main problem facing the domestic cold chain logistics industry is the low operating efficiency caused by small scale and non-standardization. Liu Weizhan, Secretary General of the Cold Chain Logistics Branch of the National Logistics Standardization Technical Committee, believes that the logistics industry has been listed as one of the top ten revitalized industries in my country, and the cold chain logistics industry is also facing new development opportunities. "Compared with foreign countries, my country's cold chain logistics industry is still in its infancy.

The next 15 years will be a period of rapid development for my country's cold chain logistics industry. We will give full play to the strength of all parties, speed up the formulation of various policies and regulations, and strive to create a good environment for the development of the domestic cold chain logistics industry from a policy perspective." Liu Weizhan said. Foreign cold chain giants enter China In March 2008, Australia was even larger. Cold chain logistics provider Swire and Guangdong Food Import and Export Group jointly invested to establish Swire Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou. At the end of March this year, Swire's new cold storage was completed, and the company's overall cold storage capacity reached a huge 40,000 tons. In July 2009, Pfizer, the second largest cold chain logistics operator in the United States, started construction of a cold storage base in Shanghai, and the cold storage in Shenzhen is currently in the intensive preparation and construction stage. In March 2010, American Cold Chain, a larger cold chain company in the United States, established a joint venture with China Merchants International to enter the Chinese cold chain logistics market.