The China Federation of Logistics and Procurement released the China Logistics Industry Prosperity Index for February today (4th). After the Spring Festival, logistics demand was released in an orderly manner, especially in late February, the physical logistics volume indicators increased significantly, and the total business volume in the eastern and central regions continued to expand.

China's logistics industry prosperity index in February was 49.3%. With the orderly progress of resumption of work after the holiday, major projects in various regions have been started in a concentrated manner, and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain have recovered steadily. The prosperity of the road and railway transportation industries is in the expansion range, and the activity of the water transportation industry continues to improve. The logistics activity of multimodal transport and postal express e-commerce sectors continues to increase, with the total business index reaching a high level of 55.6% and 66.3% respectively.

From the business situation of enterprises, the increase in cost of logistics enterprises slowed down in February, and the profit index of main business increased by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month. By industry, the profit index of main business in the fields of road transportation, water transportation, warehousing and multimodal transport has increased to varying degrees compared with the previous month.

From the later market, the expected business activity index in February was 54.4%, which remained at a high level. The expected business activity index of the railway transportation and air transportation industries was higher than the overall level of the logistics industry, which will play a stable support role in the overall recovery of logistics demand in the later period.

(CCTV reporter Wang Shantao)