Recent advancements in Lin Yi City’s logistics sector are showcasing the transformative power of data in driving smart logistics. By entering shipping information into a platform, the system swiftly matches and recommends optimal transport solutions. Post shipment, users can track the entire process in real-time, similar to how one would track a parcel. Yang Zhengde, an employee at Lin Yi Shulian Logistics Group Co., Ltd., shared these insights with reporters, emphasizing the platform’s development by Lin Yi Shulian as part of the city’s logistics data open interconnection pilot. This initiative aligns closely with the "National Logistics Data Open Interconnection Pilot” and highlights the necessity of breaking down data barriers and embracing industrial internet solutions as essential for the transformation of traditional commercial logistics.
In February of this year, multiple national departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Data Bureau, issued a notification regarding the logistics data open interconnection pilot, which has garnered Lin Yi approval as one of 16 cities nationwide for this program and the only one in the province. This initiative represents a significant opportunity for the high-quality development of the city’s logistics industry. The pilot aims to enhance collaboration across government, industries, and businesses by removing data barriers, optimizing logistics resource allocation, and reducing overall logistics costs.
Since Lin Yi's designation as a national pilot city, relevant departments such as the Municipal Big Data Bureau, Municipal Transport Bureau, and Lanshan District Government have been committed to using the pilot as a key avenue towards international digitalization of commerce and service enhancement. They have actively addressed pressing issues in the logistics industry such as "information islands" and “data silos,” concentrating on data integration, platform development, and innovative models through extensive research, pilot scheme formulation, application scenario exploration, and funding acquisition to propel the pilot's implementation with tangible progress achieved.
Following a principle of scenario-driven and business-driven investigations, over ten firms, including Zhisheng Logistics and Shandong Gaosu, have been engaged to unearth practical application scenarios. Currently, Lin Yi City is aggressively pursuing the digital transformation of its commercial logistics sector, having developed data platforms such as the Lin Yi Commercial Logistics Service Platform and the Lin Yi Port Network Freight Platform. These platforms combine data from logistics infrastructure and operational segments, managing core elements of distribution, warehousing, and flow that encompass all links in the supply chain from production to sales and warehousing.
Lin Yi Shulian Logistics Group, as the implementing entity for the logistics data open interconnection pilot, is developing integrated application scenarios that meld commercial and logistics sectors. Through its big data platform for commercial logistics, which facilitates vehicle-goods matching, warehousing, and transportation services, the group anticipates annual cost savings exceeding 1 million yuan. The company is also enhancing its platform’s functionality and accelerating the adoption of “artificial intelligence +” in empowering smart logistics applications, managing data flow seamlessly from order reception and goods sorting to warehouse management and transport delivery, resulting in significant efficiency improvements and cost reductions.
At present, the service platform has integrated over 253,000 enterprises and 25,400 vehicles, aggregating 365 million data resources. The cost of intra-city delivery logistics has fallen by 21%, while the operational efficiency of intercity mainline logistics vehicles has risen by 23% and their loading rates increased by 4 percentage points, all with reduced matching times for vehicles and goods by 32% and a 5% drop in logistics costs. In line with the unique industry's supply chain service requirements, specialized industry supply chain application scenarios are being established utilizing the New Minghui Industrial Safety Products Internet Platform. By deeply integrating supply chain data resources and connecting data types from commerce, manufacturing, and logistics, storage turnover efficiency has improved by 40%, also slashing logistics costs by over 25%.
Lin Yi Shulian Logistics Group has formed a profound partnership with Shandong New Minghui Co., Ltd., where order information from clients is relayed to the platform, enabling precise matching with the most suitable logistics service providers and ensuring full transparency throughout the process. Currently, data has become a core engine driving the logistics industry's digital transformation, aiding the real economy in reducing costs and enhancing operational efficiency. As a pilot city for national logistics data open interconnection, Lin Yi is leveraging the deep integration of "government + logistics" data, structuring an ecosystem based on "data aggregation — scenario application — value release."
This not only addresses the long-standing issues of financing difficulties, inefficiencies, and weak risk control within the logistics sector but also provides replicable experiences for other pilot initiatives across the country. By focusing on small and medium-sized logistics enterprises and commercial entities, they are utilizing platforms like "Yimeng Insight" and "Rongyi Tong" to create innovative logistics financial application scenarios.
By interconnecting the commercial logistics big data platform and the Rongyi Tong platform, over 9 billion multidimensional data points from government, logistics, agriculture, credit, and third-party sources have been deeply integrated. Efforts are underway to enhance the logistics data catalog and tagging system, promoting the standardization and mutual recognition of logistics bills, vehicle information, and financial data, establishing a high-quality data set for cross-organizational, cross-level, and cross-regional logistics finance.
This supports financial institutions by providing key operational data such as logistics bills and freight information for logistics companies, solving issues of information asymmetry, lowering the bad loan rate for financial institutions, and increasing financing efficiency for logistics businesses. By August this year, the platform had facilitated a total of 1.203 billion yuan in loans to commercial logistics enterprises, resulting in a financing efficiency uplift exceeding 60%.
Currently, the city is actively connecting with national logistics hub cities like Horgos and Wuhan, exploring business cooperation scenarios and data needs to enhance the interconnectedness of commercial logistics and port customs clearance across hubs. With the Lin Yi Port Network Freight Platform, an international container deep-sea transport scenario is being developed to establish a comprehensive logistics integration service system spanning from “inland—port—international.”
The platform now serves 3,000 import and export enterprises with an integrated capacity of 4,000 vehicles, annually handling 120,000 standard containers of import and export goods, which has helped reduce logistics costs for enterprises by 15%. Additionally, an innovative AI system has been created that significantly improves the accuracy of vehicle and goods matching by leveraging existing data, reducing the matching time from 5 minutes to under 100 seconds while enhancing vehicle operational efficiency by over 40%.
The blue screens track a continuous flow of data centered around Lin Yi, which is recognized as the “Capital of Chinese Logistics”. As a participant in the "National Logistics Data Open Interconnection Pilot”, the city is harnessing its extensive logistics network consisting of over 4,000 logistics companies and more than 2,000 dedicated logistics routes—ranking first nationally among prefecture-level cities by scale. With data as its new energy source, Lin Yi is advancing traditional commercial logistics towards modernized smart logistics, heading for new horizons in smart logistics.
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