Logistics forum held in Qingdao
By Rong Xiandong (Chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-05-19 14:13
The Supply-chain Management and China's Modern Logistics Forum,
Organized by the Qingdao City Logistics Association, is being held in East
China's Qingdao City as part of the APEC Small & Me dium Enterprises
Technology Conference and Fair. The forum is sponsored by the China
Communications and Transportation Association and the China Logistics Alliance
Network.
Many industry experts and logistics company executives attended the forum
held from May 18 to 19 and shared opinions.
Chen Ping, president of Beijing ZJS Express Co Ltd, highlighted a scientific
development for the logistics industry in a speech. Chen said Chinese
companies should emphasize self-innovation while seeking development. To achieve
this goal, businesses should adopt a down-to-earth attitude and learn from
advanced foreign experience.
He also emphasized the importance of logistics companies' distribution
networks, which he says are part of companies' intellectual
property rights and are long-term intangible assets.
Chen called for the establishment of industrial alliances to optimize
resource allocation and reduce costs for clients. He noted client costs mainly
means opportunity, risk and security costs, not the price of services logistics
companies provide.
Yang Shaopeng, board chairman of privately owned SITC Maritime Group Co Ltd,
one of China's major logistics companies, listed challenges and opportunities
facing Chinese logistics businesses, especially small and medium-sized private
companies.
Yang said Chinese enterprises' advantages lie mainly in low human
resources and operating costs and flexible mechanisms. Disadvantages are a
lack of capital, talent, information systems and service networks which
impede development. He called for the government and industrial
organizations to give more support, mainly in policy and financing, to the
private sector -, an important part of the logistics industry.
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