China: China aims to build coordinated logistics network.

【Voice_over】 China is connecting 181 national logistics hubs, and 105 key cold chain logistics bases to strengthen the overall integration of its logistics networks. The country’s logistics already run like a well-oiled machine. But experts say in the next five years help with production and services will be even more integrated and streamlined. 【Sound_bite】 Liu Yuhang, director, China Logistics Information Center: "Over the next five years, logistics infrastructure network will no longer be fragmented and single-functional. It will evolve into a modern and comprehensive network that transports goods by efficiently coordinating and analyzing data." 【Voice_over】 China also launched a new round of upgrades for cargo transportation hubs in about 30 cities. 【Sound_bite】 Lyu Zhengying, senior manager, data planning and resources division, data intelligence department, China Unidata: "It is equivalent to building a data expressway for the logistics industry. All entities in the logistics sector can share and use data through this 'expressway'. Thanks to strengthened data connectivity, new transport modes such as multi-modal transport will be more efficient and less costly.” 【Voice_over】 According to data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, the country’s social logistics value was about 14 trillion U.S. dollars in Q1 this year, a more than six percent annual increase. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]