Twenty years of cold chain

China Cold Chain Network was completed last year. This guiding website for China's cold chain logistics industry has now exceeded 1,000 registered members. In addition to helping many cold chain companies achieve brand promotion and information release, it is also working on providing an e-commerce platform for enterprise users.

This is the earliest authoritative website in our country's cold chain logistics industry. Its birth is of great significance. From then on, industry professionals had their own base, allowing those who previously focused on themselves to connect with each other and seek win-win results.

The operator of China Cold Chain Network is the sole designated partner of the Logistics Professional Committee of the China Food Industry Association, boasting a powerful operating platform. While continuously enriching industry content data, promptly releasing industry news, and recording the development history of enterprises, China Cold Chain Network also hosts regular offline events.

In addition to holding numerous seminars, many in-depth practices in enterprises are also being rolled out. One of the large-scale activities currently underway is the "Construction of Cold Chain Systems for Agricultural and Sideline Products".

The cold chain logistics network's expert platform comprises a faculty team from major universities across China, with experts from institutions that established their specialties early on becoming the academic backbone of the logistics network.

Pang Shiyou was one of the first initiators of Cold Chain Network and an important force in the early construction of the website. Relying on the resources surrounding this old professor, he brought together a lot of talents for the website. Pang Shiyou also guided the topics of many subsequent special events, and he was highly respected.

However, Pang Shiyou is participating in fewer and fewer long-distance trips offline. The bumpy roads are taking a toll on his body, and he has been hospitalized again in the past six months, raising concerns about his health.

But this time when he went to Qingyan for research, Professor Pang got up very early and even took Xiao Wu to a congee shop. He ordered preserved egg congee and crispy buns, which he hadn't eaten in a long time, and he looked quite energetic.

During the meal, Xiao Wu smiled and said, "Actually, you could have easily planned the Qingyan trip earlier. With so many topics and activities, it would have been so easy to go to Qingyan."

"Go! Everything has to be done according to schedule. Qingyan is lucky to have made it this time. I haven't had any exercise in a long time."

"You can take half a month off next month, why don't you go then? You can do some sightseeing while you're at it. It would be so much better without the pressure of work. This time, you don't need to rush with everyone, the food, accommodation, and itinerary are all so hectic."

But then Pang Shiyou put down his chopsticks. "Is it the first half of the month or the second half?"

"The first half of the month."

What's the date today?

"Number 26".

"How many days was the investigation in Qingyan?"

Xiao Wu couldn't help but laugh. This old man had planned things out meticulously! No wonder he didn't participate in the two short-term events in Qingning Province before, but instead handed over all the matters here in advance this time. It turns out he had already planned to combine his work with rest and not come back after going!

Since Tongxing was founded, Pang Shiyou has never set foot there, but the industrial park three thousand miles away has appeared in his dreams many times. He is full of anticipation, but also apprehensive. In addition to seeing the brand-new industrial park, he also wants to know if the boy's current situation is worrying.

Being an entrepreneur is never easy!

On a bright and sunny morning, as the expert team's bus exited the national highway and gradually approached Tongxing, Pang Shiyou first noticed rows of refrigerated trucks, and then the bright and clean outline of the park came into view. The old professor observed the clear and efficient flow of movement between trucks and warehouses, between warehouses, and between warehouses and halls.

Seeing this made him even more cheerful. To actually produce something that had been said before was remarkable in itself, and he never hesitated to praise Hu Shutong. He was deeply gratified and filled with admiration that someone whose ability to create plans and write reports was unmatched could actually produce a park that had come to life from a plan.

In the park's parking lot, people from Tongxing held up banners to welcome the experts from the agricultural and sideline product cold chain system construction team.

Pang Shiyou was the first to get out of the car. When he saw Hu Shu, his appearance had changed. He was wearing black trousers and a white shirt, and he looked exactly like the person he had been dealing with for so many years. However, he had also lost a lot of his former charm, and it was clear that he had been through a lot of hardship.

This was also the moment Hu Shutong had been eagerly awaiting. He took the teachers to see the park, a park that he thought was doing quite well, and hoped it would make the teachers feel proud.

After the welcome luncheon, Hu Shutong accompanied the expert group on a tour of the park. Later that evening, at a seminar, Hu Shutong, representing the company, spoke on topics related to the construction of a cold chain system for agricultural and sideline products.

Hu Shutong's understanding in this part is profound. Setting aside many general statements, Hu first mentioned this "foundation of the system," emphasizing that the word "system" only has meaning when fruits and vegetables can be transported. The delays in the delivery of many fruits and vegetables are not merely due to insufficient transportation, but also to the fact that the overall market demand has not been met.

Only when the fields are plentiful can the dining table have a variety of dishes.

How do we unlock that demand?

Hu Shutong's answer is to unblock the "first level" of this chain, because the more transit points there are, the more untimely the situation becomes. The fastest way to open up the fields and the market is to "directly connect" with designated supermarkets and designated production areas.

This echoes the idea Hu Shutong left behind in Lianghuzhuang: the distribution of agricultural products cannot rely solely on large-scale cross-regional flows; it requires a convergence of diverse solutions. Large-scale operations address issues of batch production and even product complementarity, but for vegetables and fruits, it concerns every single fruit and vegetable farmer.

You should never expect something that can truly reach everyone.

We should never overlook the hard work involved in producing every vegetable and every fruit.

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I've loved cold chain logistics for twenty years.