Modern Logistics and Its Development in China: A Brief Introduction
With the increase of the global competition and the rapid development of the Information Technology, the logistics industry is rapidly transforming from physical distribution to modern logistics, which has become an inevitable trend in the development of the logistics. As an important direction of modern logistics development, smart logistics is of great significance to reduce logistics cost and increase logistics efficiency. The overall upgrade of the supply chain is one of the trends of smart logistics in the future. Since economic reform and opening up, China’s logistic industry has been experiencing fast growth driven with the help of sustainable national economic expansion. In this paper based on the knowledge of modern logistics, we briefly introduce the smart supply chain and the development status and trends of modern logistics in China.