With the reform and opening up and economic development, in the mid-1990s Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other big cities supermarket chain industry, in order to sell a variety of market demand for frozen and refrigerated food, supermarkets use a large number of various types of advanced refrigerated cabinets; retail terminals equipped with a cold chain and improve the cold chain and accelerate the promotion of the cold chain of each link in the development of equipment and technology, manufacturing and construction process, which is called the At this time, the modern food refrigeration chain in the real sense began to appear and develop in China.
And foreign refrigerated transportation is emerging in the first half of the 19th century in Europe and the United States railroads, has been more than 150 years of history. The gap in development time also determines that China's cold chain logistics is only in its infancy, and lags far behind developed countries both in terms of refrigeration rate and management level.
In recent years, China's cold chain infrastructure is growing rapidly, but compared to China's huge population base, the per capita possession of cold storage and refrigerated trucks and other resources is still low, and some of the infrastructures are outdated and unevenly distributed, which need to be upgraded and transformed urgently. Refrigerated transportation is an important part of cold chain logistics, China's cold chain logistics is mainly concentrated in the railroad and road transportation, forward-looking industry research institute released the "China cold chain logistics industry market outlook and investment strategy planning analysis report" data show that as of 2011, the country **** has 645,000 railroad wagons, reefer 6,152, accounting for the total amount of railroad wagons less than 1%. Highway reefer ownership in about 50,000, accounting for only 0.3% of freight cars. From the transportation situation, by China's railroad resources and other factors, railroad refrigerated transport and road refrigerated transport is difficult to synergize, seriously affecting the efficiency of refrigerated transport.
Overall, China's cold chain logistics market supply gap is very large, far from meeting the market demand, so this cold chain logistics industry has a very broad prospect.
The development trend of the industry:
1. Establish a complete cold chain logistics system; 2. Strengthen the investment of cold chain equipment; 3. Speed up the development of cold chain third party logistics enterprises; 4. Establish a standard cold chain logistics system; 5. Improve the degree of informationization of cold chain logistics.