Strong logistics support is required to ensure purchase supply, production organization, vehicle sales and after-sales as well as import and export business. The total vehicle production and sales volume of China was over 18 million in 2010, and shall maintain a relatively rapid growth momentum in the future few years. China's auto industry, driven by the big market, not only brings a huge market demand, but also pushes higher service request for logistics industry.

Auto market keeps growing fast, and automotive logistics market remains to be prosperous. Due to the high-speed development of domestic auto market in the year of 2010, many experts and vehicle companies have had great expectations of the market in 2011. According to the prediction of China Association of Automobile Manufactures, vehicle market of China will maintain an increase rate between 10 percent and 15 percent in 2011, the total production and sales volume is expected to exceed 20 million. Accordingly, Chinese automotive logistics market will become bigger and will welcome a new harvest.

The competition among vehicle companies will become more intensified and comparatively the market pattern of supporting automotive logistics industry will continue the current steady situation and will not appear fierce competition, big merger and restructuring, enterprise cooperation and win-win will still be the main melody. But in the coming few years, along with the development of railway transportation, the structural adjustment of automobile industry caused by fierce competition may have a relatively big influence on the market pattern of automotive logistics industry.

The strategic cooperation between vehicle manufacturers and logistics companies will be further stabilized. Vehicle manufacturers, being in the lead in the market, will pay more and more attention to the optimization of supply chain and logistic structure, and will establish strategic relationship with logistics enterprises more closely. The growing original brand companies, targeting at leap-forward development, will be more far-sighted on strengthening logistics and supply chain management at the same time with putting a high premium on technology and quality.

Enterprises will development toward collectivization, professionalization, networklization, and informationization. Big automotive logistics companies, at the same time with consolidating the existing business, will extend to the upstream of parts and the downstream of sales, there will emerge five to eight automotive logistics group companies running through the whole automobile industry chain. Anji Logistics, Changjiu Logistics, FAW Logistics, Fengshen Logistics, Foton Logistics, and Changan Minsheng APLL Logistics are all automotive logistics group enterprises.


Small and medium sized logistics companies will realize business alignment with big logistics companies, or will have an in-depth development in the more segmented and professional fields, so as to solidify and expand the existing business resources by sort of industrial internet platform. Informationization will continue to be the key method for enterprises to promote operation and management and realize inter-company cooperation and development. Only by keeping pace with the times and using new technologies and new equipments can logistics enterprises improve efficiency, reduce cost and satisfy customers continuously.

The demand of international community on environment protection and emission reduction, and the social responsibility of leading enterprises will promote China's automotive logistics to accelerate the transformation of growth modes. Resource conservation, energy saving and emission reduction will further improve the State's strategic height of development. As for automotive logistics industry, the immediate concern is to accelerate the change from road transportation oriented situation, optimize resource allocation and promote combined transport. At the same time, automotive logistics enterprises will confront with bigger cost pressure. It has become an obvious feature of the industry in the new period to cooperate with vehicle manufacturers actively, hurry on promoting industrial self-discipline, and create a healthy environment for the development.

As the profit margin of traditional business gets increasingly narrower, the leading enterprises will make innovations on business mode and develop new profit growth point on the basis of increasingly improving the current business. The future development direction of automotive industry include: complete vehicle logistics develops more PDI business and develops logistics finance; parts logistics participates more in distribution processing, further integrate production and after-sales logistics resources; after-sales automotive logistics extends to decoration; after-market logistics business such as that of second-hand vehicle, rental car and end-of-life vehicles should have new progress; developing mechanical products logistics businesses like motorbike, engineering machinery, and agricultural machinery that are relevant or similar to automobile industry.

The most crucial part of developing China's economy in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period is to accelerate the transformation of development mode. Being one of the supporting conditions of automobile industry, automotive logistics should not only do a good job in industrial basic guarantee, but also should become an important engine of automobile industry's development mode transformation. Automotive logistics industry should improve the added value of logistics service by means of organization innovation, market innovation, technology innovation and service innovation, strengthen strategic cooperation relationship with vehicle companies, go on penetrating and merging into the whole automobile supply chain, and contributes its share to automobile industry to optimize industrial structure, save cost and improve operating efficiency and benefits.