Since Lanzhou City was successfully selected as a pilot city for the modern commercial circulation system in July 2025, the city has closely followed national pilot construction requirements. Efforts have been systematically and integrally advanced across five key areas: integrated urban-rural commercial circulation, construction of a life necessities supply guarantee system, improvement of the rural commercial circulation system, cultivation of modern backbone circulation enterprises, and optimization of the urban-rural renewable resource recycling system. Among these, the integrated urban-rural commercial circulation development focuses on "strengthening hubs, unblocking channels, and deepening integration." This approach continuously addresses bottlenecks and difficulties in urban-rural circulation, promotes the full畅通 of two-way channels for agricultural products entering cities and industrial goods reaching the countryside. Several landmark projects have been implemented and are yielding results, steadily improving urban-rural circulation efficiency and significantly enhancing service capabilities. This lays a solid foundation for the city's modern commercial circulation system to progress from establishing a framework to becoming fully formed.
Intelligent Upgrades Strengthen the Hub: J&T Project Creates an Efficient Engine for Urban-Rural Logistics
The "Intelligent Upgrade and Transformation Project for Loading, Unloading, Handling, Sorting, and Storage Equipment" at the Gansu Junyue J&T Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. transit center is a key municipally-supported project. It aims to solve the prominent issues of "long distance, slow speed, and high cost" in Northwest China's logistics through full-chain intelligent transformation, providing robust support for the efficient operation of urban-rural commercial circulation.
Within the 33,000-square-meter Gansu J&T transit center, high-speed cross-belt automatic sorters operate at full capacity. A weigh-in-motion six-sided scanning DWS system accurately identifies parcels. Sixteen automated sorting lines and seventy-two roller-type sorting lines work in coordination, achieving a fully unmanned process from loading and unloading, weighing, and security screening to sorting. The project deeply integrates self-developed JMS and DWS systems with automated sorting equipment, building an integrated digital operation system covering order reception, goods warehousing, intelligent sorting, in-transit distribution, and after-sales service.
Yang Jinlong, the Transportation Capacity Manager at Gansu Junyue J&T Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., explained: "The JMS system allows us to visually see the current parcel volume being processed and monitor end-point delivery in real-time. When volume is high, the system issues timely warnings, enabling us to immediately dispatch additional personnel and vehicles to downstream outlets to quickly resolve any delivery abnormalities." Digital control makes the entire network's operations more precise and efficient, effectively ensuring the smooth flow of urban and rural parcels.
Relying on the integration of intelligent equipment upgrades and digital systems, the J&T transit center's peak daily processing capacity has increased from 500,000 to 1.8 million parcels. Sorting efficiency has improved by 50%, parcel dwell time has been reduced by over 0.5 days, and loss and damage rates have fallen to low levels within the industry. The project simultaneously promotes a green transformation, with widespread use of biodegradable packaging, electronic waybills, and reusable containers. The standard pallet reuse rate has reached 90%, and energy-saving equipment with intelligent energy consumption management systems has been put into operation, establishing an intensive, efficient, and green freight distribution system.
Huang Jinyin, General Manager of Gansu Junyue J&T Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., stated that the project closely aligns with the requirements of the modern commercial circulation system pilot construction. Through intelligent equipment upgrades and digital system integration, the company is committed to building the Lanzhou hub into a core logistics node connecting urban and rural areas, radiating across Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia, and linking up with the national network, thereby畅通ing the two-way channels for agricultural products to cities and industrial goods to the countryside. Leveraging the upgraded intelligent hub, the company has established a "smart sorting + direct shipping from origin" model, effectively helping specialty Gansu agricultural products like Wuwei Minqin melons, Tianshui apples, and Lanzhou lilies efficiently leave villages and enter cities.
Network Penetration Reaches the Last Mile: S.F. Holding Opens the "Final Kilometer" of Urban-Rural Circulation
The "Facility and Equipment Upgrade Project in the Commercial Circulation Sector" by Lanzhou S.F. Express Co., Ltd., as one of the city's first batch of pilot projects, effectively opens the two-way channels for agricultural products to cities and industrial goods to the countryside through intelligent equipment upgrades, logistics network下沉, and empowerment by digital-intelligent systems. It provides full-chain support for the integrated development of urban-rural commercial circulation.
At the Lanzhou S.F. Heping Transit Center, automated sorting lines operate at high speed, and cyclone flat sorter equipment is working orderly. Wang Libin, the Operation Team Leader for the Gansu-Qinghai Region of the company, introduced: "This equipment is specifically designed for flat items like documents and envelopes. It uses an independent sorting system, which can significantly reduce squeezing and wrinkling of items, and special compartments better protect document neatness." The transportation segment employs a model of consolidating shipments by destination from the source, reducing mis-sorting and mis-shipping, making sorting more accurate and flow smoother.
Sun Ke, head of the Lanzhou S.F. Heping Transit Center, explained that the project focuses on comprehensive upgrades to core logistics links, prioritizing the transformation of sorting, transportation, last-mile delivery, and supporting facilities. The introduction of automated sorting lines and intelligent sorting equipment has increased the center's daily sorting capacity from 639,000 to 791,000 items, a increase of 23.8%, with sorting accuracy consistently maintained above 99.9%. Additionally, new trunk and branch line transport vehicles and last-mile delivery vehicles have been added, delivery route planning has been optimized, achieving 100% coverage of delivery to all townships and towns within the city. The average last-mile delivery time has been shortened by one hour, effectively solving the "last kilometer" challenge in urban-rural distribution.
In terms of digital-intelligent empowerment, the project has established an intelligent management and control system covering the entire process from warehousing and sorting to transportation and delivery. Smart logistics technology is used to achieve real-time tracking of cargo status and full-process visibility. Relying on a big data platform and an intelligent dispatch system, transportation capacity allocation is dynamically optimized, driving logistics operations from experience-driven to data-driven, comprehensively improving operational efficiency and management precision.
Leveraging its well-developed urban-rural logistics network, the S.F. project has built efficient two-way circulation channels for agricultural products moving upstream and industrial goods moving downstream. Through a model of "direct sourcing from origin + customized packaging + full-process cold chain + nationwide direct delivery," the project helped the annual shipment volume of specialty Gansu agricultural products, such as Lanzhou lilies and Jingning apples, exceed 60,000 tons in 2025, driving a year-on-year sales increase of 40%, effectively addressing the challenge of getting agricultural products from villages to cities. The last-mile delivery network, covering 680 administrative villages, allows industrial goods like home appliances and daily necessities to efficiently reach the countryside, meeting the consumption upgrade demands of rural residents. The project has scaled up the use of new energy delivery vehicles and biodegradable packaging materials, directly creating over 1,200 jobs, and reduced the loss rate in agricultural product circulation from 15% to below 5%, allowing urban and rural residents to share convenient, efficient, and equitable logistics services.
Results of Urban-Rural Commercial Circulation Integration Highlighted; Pilot Construction Steadily Advances
Driven by benchmark projects like J&T and S.F. Holding, Lanzhou City has accelerated its push for integrated urban-rural commercial circulation development. Focusing on key supported areas such as upgrading backbone markets, building cold chain logistics bases, logistics intelligence transformation, green freight distribution, and e-commerce cloud warehouse construction, the city has comprehensively opened the two-way channels for agricultural products to cities and industrial goods to the countryside through intelligent logistics hub upgrades, last-mile network下沉, and digital-intelligent system empowerment. Urban-rural circulation efficiency and service capabilities have been simultaneously enhanced, effectively addressing circulation bottlenecks and difficulties, and laying a solid foundation for the construction of the city's modern commercial circulation system.
Relying on the demonstration effect of key projects, the pilot construction of Lanzhou's modern commercial circulation system is progressing strongly overall with significant results. Since being selected as a national pilot city, Lanzhou has made systematic efforts紧扣 the five key directions, achieving phased results in the pilot construction. Currently, the city has coordinated the advancement of 51 pilot projects, including 35 construction projects and 16 reserve projects. For 2026, 34 projects are planned for completion, with 15 already basically finished and the remaining projects progressing orderly according to plan. During the pilot project construction process, the city formulated and issued the "Lanzhou City Work Plan for Building a Modern Commercial Circulation System Pilot City (2025-2027)," simultaneously introducing the "Lanzhou City Special Fund Management Measures for the Modern Commercial Circulation System Pilot" and the "Project Management Measures." A project reserve mechanism characterized by "extensive collection, tiered cultivation, rolling入库, and dynamic management" has been established. Three project construction training sessions have been conducted. The principle of "subsidy after construction, phased acceptance, and subsidy based on effectiveness" is strictly followed, standardizing the entire process of project review, acceptance, and public announcement to ensure the pilot work proceeds规范ly and efficiently.
A relevant official from the Lanzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau stated that being selected as a 2025 pilot city is a key move in Lanzhou's implementation of the "Strong Provincial Capital" action. Next, the city will collaborate with multiple departments and counties/districts to conduct the collection of the third batch of projects and provide continuous tracking and supervision for existing projects. Typical cases will be summarized and promoted, and preparations for the Ministry of Commerce's mid-term performance evaluation will be fully undertaken. According to the schedule, a "look-back" review of implemented projects will be conducted orderly, enterprises will be urged to push for overall project completion, and training and review sessions for project entities will be organized simultaneously to ensure all tasks are落地 on schedule. The pilot construction will fully empower the five key directions, accelerating the establishment of a modern commercial circulation system that is higher-level, more resilient, and more efficient, providing solid support for Lanzhou's high-quality development and regional coordinated development.
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