According to the procurement data of air conditioning and refrigeration market, the domestic cold chain logistics industry will usher in a new era of rapid development in the next 15 years. Cold chain makes food more nutritious Yu Feng, vice president of Asia Pacific region of Ingersoll Rand (China) Investment Co., Ltd., explained the importance of cold chain to food from the perspective of food safety and food nutrition. Yu Feng, for example, said that in the 1950s, the number of deaths caused by food safety in Japan was as high as 300 every year, but now it has dropped to single digits. The reason lies in Japan's investment in the food cold chain industry.

"For every 6 ℃ rise in temperature, the total number of colonies in food will double, and the shelf life of food will be halved." Yu Feng said that temperature not only directly affects the storage time of food, but also greatly affects the nutritional value of food. "Experiments show that the nutritional value of broccoli stored in cold storage is not easy to lose, and it is more in line with the nutritional requirements than broccoli stored at room temperature." Yu Feng believes that with the gradual strengthening of consumers' concept of food safety and nutrition, more and more food will be processed, transported and stored through the cold chain in the future, which brings good opportunities for the development of China's cold chain logistics industry. Chenweixin, director of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of fruit and vegetable preservation, also said: "the consumption rate of fruits and vegetables at normal temperature in domestic supermarkets is as high as 20%, and the fruits and vegetables transported and stored through the cold chain not only reduce the consumption rate, but also can preserve the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables to a greater extent."

The comprehensive cost of cold chain products is not high. Products passing through the cold chain link will increase the cost of production enterprises, which is a major resistance to the development of the cold chain market. Liupeijun, chairman of the fast track (Beijing) Food Logistics Co., Ltd., believes that this is a misunderstanding. Liupeijun explained that "the standardized and high-energy operation of cold chain logistics enterprises can effectively reduce logistics costs, so that cold chain logistics can be applied to more industries. Therefore, cold chain logistics enterprises can help manufacturers save money, save costs and open up a larger market, so as to achieve a win-win situation between manufacturers and logistics providers. Of course, this requires the joint efforts of policies, associations, manufacturers, logistics enterprises and consumers". He believes that the main problem facing the domestic cold chain logistics industry at present is the low operation efficiency caused by small scale and non-standard. Liuweizhan, Secretary General of the cold chain logistics branch of the National Logistics Standardization Technical Committee, believes that the logistics industry has been listed as one of the top ten revitalization industries in China, and the cold chain logistics industry is also facing new development opportunities. "Compared with foreign countries, China's cold chain logistics industry is still in its infancy.

The next 15 years will be a period of rapid development for China's cold chain logistics industry. We will give full play to the strength of all parties, step up the formulation of various policies and regulations, and strive to create a good environment for the development of the domestic cold chain logistics industry in terms of policies. " Liuweizhan said. Foreign cold chain giants enter China in March2008, Swire, a larger cold chain logistics provider in Australia, and Guangdong food import and Export Group Co invested to establish Swire Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou. At the end of March this year, Swire's new cold storage was completed, and the company's overall cold storage capacity reached 40000 tons. In july2009, PFIs, the second largest cold chain logistics operator in the United States, started construction of the cold storage base in Shanghai, and the cold storage base in Shenzhen is also in the stage of intense preparation and construction. In March2010, meileng, a larger cold chain enterprise in the United States, and China Merchants International established a joint venture to lay out China's cold chain logistics market.