Xinjiang belongs to an underdeveloped area, and developing modern logistics industry is an inevitable choice for its economic development. The development of logistics industry plays an important role in the development of the tertiary industry in Xinjiang, and the development space of modern logistics industry is also very broad. The prospect of logistics industry will be one of the most promising industries in Xinjiang.
First, the development status of the logistics industry in Xinjiang
1, with a good development momentum.
Large international and domestic logistics enterprises began to pay attention to Xinjiang, and the 500-acre Southern Logistics Xinjiang Integrated Logistics Park project invested by "Top 100 Logistics Enterprises in China" stepped up construction in Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone. Fuchs Logistics International Group invested 50 million yuan to acquire Xinjiang Leopard Transportation Company to provide mine logistics services in Xinjiang. The Yazhong Electromechanical Logistics Center with an investment of 200 million yuan and the Xinjiang Baishang Wujiaohua Logistics Distribution Center with an investment of 300 million yuan are gradually gaining popularity. At the same time, a 200-mu storage base and the largest cotton spinning logistics base in Aksu will be built in Midong District.
2. Rapid development of highway transportation infrastructure.
By the end of 2007, the highway mileage in the autonomous region was145,000 km (including Corps), including: expressway 1009 km, first-class highway 1474 km, second-class highway 8444 km, and third-class and below highway 2346 1 km; The number of motor vehicles in the region reached 6.5438+0.95 million, including 820,000 civilian vehicles, 44,000 commercial buses and 206,000 trucks.
3. The construction and development prospect of logistics distribution center is good.
During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, with Urumqi as the center, the production materials processing and distribution park of Urumqi North Station and several industrial consumer goods distribution centers, agricultural and sideline products and fresh food processing and distribution centers will be gradually established, and regional comprehensive logistics distribution centers will be built in Kuitun, Aksu and Korla to form a socialized and efficient logistics distribution network.
4. The overall logistics cost is still high.
At present, due to the dispersion of logistics operations and the separation of logistics services, a lot of manpower and material resources are produced in the process of logistics production, and the management cost is high, which affects the further development of logistics industry in our region.
5. It is far from the modern logistics industry.
A considerable number of enterprises do not have the concept of modern logistics, and their understanding of the logistics industry is limited to transportation, warehousing and handling. Some logistics enterprises have not completely got rid of the influence of planned economy, and are used to "big and complete" and "small and complete", and have not integrated and reorganized internal logistics according to modern logistics concepts.
Second, the problems in the development of logistics in Xinjiang
Although Xinjiang is located in five northwest provinces and belongs to remote areas, its economic development lags far behind that of coastal cities due to geographical constraints. However, the introduction of the western development policy has provided broad space and opportunities for the rapid economic development in Xinjiang. However, from the perspective of the whole logistics industry, there are still some problems to be solved urgently.
1, management system
At present, Xinjiang's logistics management authority is divided into several different departments, such as railways, transportation, civil aviation, economy and trade, and no department or institution can coordinate management. It is difficult to carry out cross-regional, cross-industry and multimodal social logistics. The logistics departments of the localities and the Corps are fragmented, lacking communication, and redundant construction is serious, which can not give full play to the comprehensive benefits of logistics. Due to the lack of reasonable logistics organization, the return rate of road freight has remained at around 50%-70% for many years. A large number of trucks can be seen everywhere in each freight yard in idle state, with excess capacity, which causes great waste.
2. Logistics enterprises are not competitive.
Logistics enterprises are mostly renamed from traditional transportation companies or storage and transportation companies, with small scale, irregular management and low degree of specialization. The service content is limited to general transportation, warehousing and handling, and it is impossible to provide comprehensive logistics services. In terms of business methods, most of them adopt decentralized business forms such as bicycle contracting, individual joint venture and financial leasing to transport some bulk goods with low added value. As far as the scope of business radiation is concerned, most logistics enterprises in Xinjiang are regional logistics enterprises, accounting for less than 15% of the whole country and less than 2% abroad, lacking the ability to participate in domestic and international logistics market competition.
3. The modern integrated logistics system has not yet formed, and the development of transportation and freight industry is relatively backward.
At present, the means of transportation are still relatively backward, and the growth of means of transportation is not coordinated with the growth of traffic lines, and the urban traffic is not smooth, which seriously affects the operation efficiency of the traffic network.
4. The construction of logistics center still lags behind.
The port infrastructure is relatively backward, the urbanization construction is seriously insufficient, and the social and economic environment required for the construction and development of modern logistics centers is lacking, which makes the logistics centers unable to make unified planning according to social development, resulting in scattered urban logistics, low degree of organization, unreasonable logistics layout, low technical content, weak horizontal joint ability of logistics enterprises, and lack of scale and socialization.
5. The technical level of logistics management is low.
The informatization level of logistics industry is generally low, most logistics enterprises are backward in technical equipment and management methods, and their service networks and information systems are not perfect. Few logistics enterprises use professional logistics management software and fail to effectively integrate logistics information.
Third, suggestions and countermeasures for the development of logistics in Xinjiang
In view of the problems existing in logistics enterprises in Xinjiang at present, the author puts forward the following suggestions and countermeasures for reference only.
1. Establish an authoritative leadership and coordination organization to unify management and standardize the logistics market.
Promoting the development of modern logistics industry in Xinjiang needs a good market environment. It is necessary to strengthen the government's leadership over the logistics work, establish a special working organization with unified coordination function, be responsible for organizing all relevant departments to formulate unified planning and supporting policies for the development of the logistics industry in Xinjiang, coordinate the relationship between the localities and the Corps, and effectively stop bad behaviors that hinder fair competition.
2. Strengthen value-added services and develop strategic partnerships.
While providing basic logistics services, Xinjiang logistics enterprises should constantly subdivide the market according to market demand, expand their business scope, take customer efficiency as their responsibility, develop logistics value-added services, extensively carry out processing, distribution, freight forwarding and other services, and even provide services including logistics strategy and process solutions, and build information platforms. To meet individual needs with professional services, improve service quality and seek benefits through services; It is necessary to strengthen business contact with customers, enhance interdependence and develop strategic partnership by providing all-round services.
3. Strengthen logistics planning and infrastructure construction, and continue to vigorously develop transportation.
First, the fundamental purpose is to improve labor productivity, reduce logistics costs and provide socialized services, and increase the construction of logistics infrastructure; Secondly, according to Xinjiang's regional characteristics, production and trade circulation mode, plan the rational layout of Xinjiang's logistics system. Third, Xinjiang's traffic is in a period of great construction and development, and it has the advantage of being a latecomer. We should fully learn from the experience and latest development trend of transportation development in the eastern region, and combine the regional characteristics of this region to continuously realize and improve the rational division of labor and coordinated development of various modes of transportation in the process of great development.
4. Vigorously develop domestic and international trade and port logistics to promote the development of logistics.
First, Xinjiang's logistics industry has broad market prospects. Due to its unique geographical location, Xinjiang has become an important channel for opening up to the west and developing foreign trade and logistics industry, and has formed a logistics network with Urumqi as the business center and seven national trunk lines as the main skeleton, with Gansu and Qinghai in the east, inland provinces and regions in the south, and Tibet, Central Asia and West Asia countries in the west, radiating many counties and cities in the region. Second, vigorously develop port logistics. Logistics function is one of the important functions of the port. Relying on various ports to build logistics centers should attract enough attention to the development of logistics industry in our region. Most of the first-class ports open to the outside world are located in border areas, which is conducive to the development of border trade with the help of geographical advantages, has the favorable conditions for building a logistics center with international logistics services as the mainstay, has the unique geographical advantage of connecting the east with the west, and is extremely convenient for developing port logistics.
5. Accelerate the reorganization of logistics enterprises and vigorously develop third-party logistics.
We should combine our own economic and technical strength, choose appropriate ways to adjust and optimize the structure of logistics enterprises, and establish a competitive cross-regional and transnational logistics enterprise in specialization and cooperation by implementing measures such as combination, reorganization, bankruptcy and acquisition of many existing small and medium-sized logistics enterprises. Xinjiang third-party logistics operators should strive to attract all kinds of social funds, carry out financing, increase investment in the construction of logistics information platform, establish logistics information system, data exchange system and cargo tracking system reasonably and effectively, and continuously extend the service field and level.
6. Pay attention to the cultivation of logistics management talents.
The lack of professional and technical personnel and the low overall quality of logistics enterprises in Xinjiang have affected their ability to accept new ideas and technologies. We should pay full attention to and develop higher education to train logistics management and technical personnel, and strengthen on-the-job training of logistics practitioners.
In a word, there is still a big gap between Xinjiang logistics and developed provinces in China, and there is still a lot of work to be done. However, the logistics industry in Xinjiang is a rising star in Ran Ran. As long as we attach great importance to this emerging industry, do a good job in infrastructure construction, give enterprises loose and appropriate policies and reasonable guidance, and make active efforts by enterprises themselves, I believe that Xinjiang's logistics industry will definitely bring about a qualitative and quantitative leap and make due contributions to the sound and rapid development of Xinjiang's economy.