High logistics cost in China has not only affected the competitiveness of enterprises and products, but also at the macro level affect the overall functioning of the national economy level. Leading reasons for the high cost of logistics in many aspects, the most important factor is the system of division caused by the basic platform of logistics and logistics inefficiencies.

Now, many of our products due to production volume, low labor costs, very competitive in the international arena, a large trade surplus with the related, but is incompatible with this is that China's logistics costs are much higher than developed countries, play in the comprehensive cost is offset. Professor Wang Zhitai to reporters calculated that, in general, the social product, the human resources cost the equivalent of one fifth of the developed countries, while containing the cost of production logistics costs three times higher than their (China's logistics costs accounted for about 40% of the cost of production, while developed countries accounted for only 10%); in the social circulation, China's logistics costs account for nearly 20% of GDP, the United States less than 10%, also higher than in developed countries nearly doubled. Therefore, solving the logistics barriers, logistics cost reduction down this part, not only can greatly improve the overall functioning of the national economy level, will also enable China to enhance international competition in a level.

Why logistics costs so high?

Here both technical reasons and more institutional factors, the dual constraints. Experts said that from the hardware point of view, China's logistics infrastructure on which not enough. Take the railway, the China's railway mileage per capita less than 5.5 cm, but 6% of the world of business mileage, completed 23% of world traffic. Even so, rail freight in general can only meet 60% of the current capacity needs of the railway across the country every day to the number of applications up to 15,16 million wagon, railroads can only meet the more than 90,000 vehicles. Therefore, to "smooth flow of goods," we must break the infrastructure "bottlenecks", to increase investment and accelerate the construction of road network. In the long run, according to China's economic growth rate and momentum, the problem difficult to solve, and is gradually being resolved.

We now need urgent attention and solution is how to integrate existing logistics resources to use, how to efficiently operate. This is the institutions which most difficult to resolve the issue. China is a sub-sector management, which is a planned economy, but also with the division of labor on the national economy. Thus logistics infrastructure platforms such as railways, civil aviation, highways, waterways are divided, and the characteristics of logistics alone is not relying in any way, must rely on the organic link between systems. This sub-sector management of the system conversion in different ways, are obviously more strenuous. If a car is only running on a road, its cost and ratio of foreign, must be cheap, and in the complexities of modern production, it must be converted through a variety of ways, such as container transport by rail to the train station to a place , and then transported by car to the port, and then sent off-site by water transport, this process, if not effective conversion link, every time conversion to a cost increase.

Modern logistics is to get all the logistics resources to enter the market, optimizing the allocation of resources through the market rather than by market forces of the current organization and management of logistics resources, poor convergence of the logistics chain, operating efficiency and thus greatly reduced. In fact, the railways, highways, container, airports, ports and other carriers are in the logistics market, these resources should be fully enter the market, can be freely traded in the market, through the optimal allocation of resources on the logistics market, and now the basis of the administrative system of these Resource Partitioning, the lateral vertical economic ties are often cut off. Such as the existing railway network and road network of different contacts, their planning, or even separation, it was very difficult to switch between each other, need to continuously re-handling, transport and organization, and the resulting series of problems.

Can not rationalize the logistics, economic, scientific point of view the design of logistics processes and logistics based resources are not relying on the effective integration and systematic, and systemic capacity of the original can not meet the modern economic development has long been, which is the logistics of paying a high the cost of important reasons.

For business, this resource partitioning based on the most immediate consequence is that they often choose to avoid the convergence in a single way to generate new costs. For example, only by road transport, which is an important road Overload causes repeated. In fact, from our energy policy, the long-distance or even thousands of kilometers of road transport is very economical, but because of difficulties of convergence of several systems, they can not form an effective network, the enterprise had to choose a single way. In a sense, the overload of repeated logistics base platform is what we do not systematic, with each other in a divided state to pay the high price. In the development of modern logistics, the institutional barriers behave more and more prominent.

On the other hand, as China's accession to the WTO, increasing the degree of internationalization of domestic enterprises to more effectively integrate with the international logistics, such as the international shipping port of the goods of our country down, it should be "appropriate iron (Road) into the Rail (road), should be public (road) into the public (road) ", and our goods are essential to rely on incoming highways, rail container is an independent system, the basic segmentation and international shipping containers, and the procedure is very complicated. In this divided state, China's logistics large-scale, low-cost transportation advantages have to drain and consumption. Many people do not realize that address institutional barriers, than building a new railway, new roads, open up a new route is much more important and urgent. Currently, as soon as possible to break from the institutional division for logistics companies to create a systematic platform. Only from the system to solve this problem, the construction and development of modern logistics in order from the current low level, a breakthrough in high-cost state.