Circulation industry is the sum of all trade relations of commodity owners, including business flow, logistics, information flow, capital flow. And the narrow sense of the circulation, is the international popular distribution services, including commission agency services, wholesale, retail, franchising. Commonly speaking the circulation industry refers to the intermediate links from production to consumption, usually refers to the wholesale industry, retail industry, catering industry and logistics industry, four large circulation branches.
In reality, the development of circulation industry policy is generally rarely involved in the catering industry, because it is actually a part of the life service industry in the usual sense of the word, therefore, the official documents speak of the development of the circulation industry, basically mainly involved in three branches, namely, wholesale, retail and logistics.
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Development of the Circulation Industry
1. The circulation industry is the blood and nerves of the reproduction process of modern society.
The planned economy determines consumption by production, and the market economy determines production by consumption demand. The modern circulation industry has the important function of meeting the immediate consumption demand, developing the potential consumption demand and creating the future consumption demand.
Small circulation drives small production, big circulation drives big production, modern circulation drives modern production. Modern circulation is the blood and nerves of the social reproduction process, is a variety of factors of production assembly, integration and fusion of the carrier, is to determine the speed of economic operation, quality and efficiency of the guiding force.
2, circulation industry is to guide the economic restructuring of the steering wheel and gas pedal.
With the rapid development of economic globalization and informationization, the market-oriented, circulation-based "supply chain" production mode has replaced the traditional decentralized, individual production mode.
Promoting the deepening of enterprise division of labor, industrial division of labor, international division of labor, the transaction scale is unprecedented. Whether it is the economic structure, industrial structure or product structure, the direction, strength and scale of its adjustment depends on market orientation. Circulation on the economic development of the guiding ability to further enhance the circulation industry is becoming more and more an important embodiment of the country's overall competitiveness.
3, the circulation industry is to protect people's livelihood, to meet the important carrier of consumer demand.
At the end of 2010, there were 1.97 million legal entities in China's wholesale and retail industry, together with accommodation and catering industries as well as individual merchants, totaling more than 24 million, spreading over both urban and rural areas.
The "Ten Thousand Villages and Thousand Townships" project has achieved remarkable results, with 600,000 rural chain stores. The circulation network in both urban and rural areas has become the most important carrying force to meet the development of the national economy and the material needs of the people. At the same time, the central and local important commodities reserve and put network has taken shape, to stabilize market supply and demand, suppress price fluctuations, safeguard the needs of people's livelihood, played an important role.
Reference Source Baidu Encyclopedia-Circulation Industry