China International Logistics Week comes to Wuhan

The ninth China International Logistics Week will take place on Nov 27 in Wuhan, a city that is on track to become China’s logistics center. According to Liu Wenyong, the deputy mayor of Wuhan, Wuhan has long-awaited its chance to host Logistics Week.

The ninth International Logistics Week is scheduled to hold 16 activities over three days. Experts from the International Society of Logistics and executives from famous logistics enterprise groups have drawn worldwide attention to the event. “Hundreds of college professors and top experts at home and abroad are expected to take the pulse of logistics development in Wuhan through the conferences.” The week boasts an exhibition area of 32,000 square meters with over 400 registered enterprises and tentative investment project contracts to date. As a result, conference scale, site area, number of investment projects and attendance will reach the highest in the event's history.

Wuhan serves as the geographic center of the national economy, the hinterland of the inland market, and the distribution center of central China, Liu Wenyong said. It will be the key to international competition in the domestic Chinese market. Wuhan, known as a main flyover region of the Chinese mainland, plays a pivotal role in connecting China’s regions economically. Moreover, Wuhan has been working rapidly to become a national center for railway passenger transportation, a national terminal for the expressway network, a shipping center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the home of the fourth largest gateway airport in China. Due to the integrated construction of rail, water, truck and air transport lines, the country's transportation capabilities will contribute to the comprehensive development of the logistics industry in Wuhan.

The Spatial Development Plan of the Logistics Industry was passed by the government of Wuhan on Nov 19. It outlines the development of the logistics industry in Wuhan over the next eight years, creating an added value of 120 billion yuan ($19.27 billion) by late 2015.

The ninth China International Logistics Week, led by the people's government of Wuhan, will establish the National Urban League of Logistics and its rules. The launch ceremony of the National Urban League of Logistics and the 2012 Global Forum for Logistics - Mayor's Forum, will announce their Wuhan declarations.

Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have hosted the previous eight China International Logistics Weeks since 2003, pushing the event as a platform for international and domestic logistics communication and cooperation.