Street couriers, efficient and flexible intelligent equipment, as promised by the arrival of express parcels ...... end connected to the production of supply, the other end connected to consumer demand, logistics and express delivery industry is known as the economic development and consumption vitality of the "barometer". Thanks to the help of big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other digital technology, China's logistics industry is growing at a rapid pace, express "faster and faster", the circulation system to further improve efficiency.

Cold chain equipment to help "fresh delivery"

In Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, the courier boy will be a box of fresh crayfish packing truck, through the refrigerated cold transport vehicles sent directly to the distribution center, and then sent by air cargo to major cities in China.

It is reported that since the summer, litchi, cherries, crayfish, ice cream, pre-prepared dishes and other products sent demand surge, courier companies to increase investment in cold chain equipment and facilities, through the combination of land and air transport, to achieve "fresh delivery".

Courier companies extend the cold chain service network to the countryside to expand the sales range of agricultural products. In Chongqing Jiangjin District, the pioneer town pepper base, fresh green pepper early in the morning by the villagers picked directly to the planting base next to the cold storage for pre-cooling, sorting, packaging. Less than 100 meters away from the cold storage, courier companies set up a cold chain logistics collection point, the same day in the afternoon can be delivered to all parts of the country through the logistics of cold chain vehicles.

The State Post Office monitoring data show that this year, as of June 24, China's express business volume has reached 60 billion pieces. in June, a number of national e-commerce platforms have launched mid-year promotions, driving a new round of growth in the volume of express business.

Many courier companies use the mode of warehousing front, to achieve the integration of warehousing and distribution, after consumers place an order, big data matching out the nearest warehousing from the delivery address, courier companies can send the parcels out in time. Liu Dacheng, vice president of Tsinghua University's Internet Industry Research Institute, said in an interview with this newspaper, in lieu of transportation, the form of advance warehousing to achieve the optimal allocation of resources in all aspects of logistics, through big data analysis to guide distribution, so that supply and demand more accurately matched, can effectively reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Automatic sorting is like a "dexterous hand"

"In the past, courier sorting relied on workers to scan codes one by one with handheld terminals and then send them to the corresponding areas, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also prone to errors." The person in charge of Yuan Tong Express said that the system now intelligently identifies barcode information and sorts automatically, just like having a "smart brain" and "dexterous hands".

"Open the digital logistics platform, the real-time trajectory of each truck can be seen at a glance. Thanks to the positioning technology and big data processing system, the whole process of logistics is intelligent and can realize the positioning management of personnel and equipment." said the person in charge of FAW Logistics Co.

In Beijing No.1 Smart Warehouse of Whale Warehouse in Beijing Airport Intelligent Logistics Park, each piece of goods is labeled with a QR code from the moment it enters the warehouse, which is equivalent to having its own specific "ID card", and the warehouse management system will know the specific location of each piece of goods. When an order is received, the system will automatically issue instructions, intelligent robots immediately in milliseconds to accurately locate the location of the box where the goods are stored, and quickly transfer it to the picking table.

"Safety, efficiency and price are the three major factors that will help accelerate the era of smart logistics. Automated guided transport vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, and industrial-grade driverless are already very hot logistics equipment." Liu Bin, an intelligent park expert of Jingdong Logistics, said that smart logistics is moving from simple indoor scenes to complex outdoor scenes, relying on multi-device collaboration to achieve global unmanned, and distribution robots will extend services from the "last kilometer" to the "last meter" when they penetrate into the park buildings. The delivery robots will extend the service from the "last mile" to the "last meter".

Today, courier companies are vigorously improving digital operations, optimizing transit and delivery processes, accelerating the use of fully automated sorting, unmanned warehouses, unmanned vehicles, drones and other equipment and technologies, and vigorously improving the timeliness of delivery services. Experts believe that the logistics service operation model continues to innovate and is changing from "sweat type" to "intelligent".

National Development and Reform Commission issued last year, the "14th Five-Year" modern circulation system construction plan "proposed to accelerate the development of intelligent logistics, the active application of modern information technology and intelligent equipment, to enhance the level of logistics automation, unmanned, intelligent.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that the development of trade logistics presents some new features: the digitalization and intelligence level of trade logistics continues to improve, the unmanned distribution market continues to expand, the layout of intelligent terminal distribution facilities more complete; major enterprises have laid out front warehouses, storage member stores, etc., the traditional super logistics to warehouse and distribution transformation; instant delivery has become a new growth point of e-commerce logistics, the size of the user and the number of orders The number of users and orders keeps growing rapidly, and the categories of delivery goods keep expanding; cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses are developing vigorously, and the internationalization of trade logistics keeps improving. In the future, the digital economy and trade logistics