Twenty years of cold chain

With the first half of the Lunar New Year holiday over, the Cold Chain Logistics Young Entrepreneurs Forum is officially on the agenda. After half a month of preparation, it will be held at the end of the month. In the cold chain logistics industry, Tongxing has never appeared in this way before. In addition to handling many matters in the event, Tongxing also participated in five core topics.

It's obvious to everyone.

Tongxing's dominant position in the transportation of vegetables to the south will be unshakable. It will play a role many times stronger than the pilot projects in this major project and supply chain. It can be said that Tongxing is a company that all enterprises in Qingning and Ningxia involved in the transportation of vegetables to the south dare not offend.

This involves the allocation of hardware facilities for the eight cold chain routes, and obtaining support funds for the construction of new transfer centers is something many people are eager to do.

In Hu Shutong's plan,

Taking advantage of this entrepreneurs' forum, the allocation standards for the hardware facilities of the eight cold chain routes were finalized first.

Things will go more smoothly from here on out.

This recognition came after he attended a meeting with the National Development and Reform Commission.

This funding for cold chain infrastructure is primarily used for the construction of transshipment centers for the southward transport of fresh vegetables. The allocation is based on the flow rate in each region, with pilot projects serving as a reference. In addition to the special funding, each company must submit its own budget report. After both are reviewed and approved, all projects will commence simultaneously.

These transfer centers will be built according to unified standards, with synchronized electronic technology configuration, enabling internal communication of Qingning vegetable brands on the smart terminal, and establishing a large database of Qingning vegetable supply and marketing information, thereby making the scheduling of all regions faster and more efficient.

Qingning's winter greenhouse vegetable production has been increasing year after year, and with the impetus from previous pilot projects, it is expected that the vegetable production will increase by about 30% this winter.

It is foreseeable that Qingning vegetables will face an unprecedented surge in production and sales this winter. Only by eliminating complex multi-level coordination can the problems of "farmers finding it difficult to sell and city dwellers finding it difficult to buy" be solved.

This can even be described as a historic moment for a major vegetable-producing province, which will have a profound impact on many years to come.

Managing such a large project,

Moreover, being a participant himself is a distinctive feature of Hu Shutong's career.

Cold chain logistics ultimately requires more on-the-go work; only by getting things moving can goods be purchased and served.

Ten years ago, Hu Shutong was passionate about the ideals of this industry; the louder the slogan, the more inspiring and instilling a sense of mission. Now, with the industry's momentum surging, he feels that the ideals of this industry should be simpler. "From farm to table"—this path, as the older generation says, is the soul of the cold chain.

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While preparations are in full swing in the north, there are also many exciting things happening in the south.

Shortly after the Spring Festival, news spread that Mammoth Capital intended to conduct angel round financing for Tongxing.

Guan Wentao's strength

The people at Kunyu were quite aware of the situation, and what caught their attention was this angel investment.

Such a thing could not be done unless one had a very close personal relationship with the person in question.

While trying to contact Guan Wentao, Kunyu was also weighing the options. Although Mammoth Fund had no substantial connection with Minghe Group, Guan Wentao had a lot of influence in Minghe, which was a long-established comprehensive enterprise in Mingjiang. Their actions had a significant impact.

However, giving up that cement plant was not an easy decision. Considering its location, size, and land price, it was an excellent choice. Losing to private companies like Tongxing and Fengliang would be a huge loss of face for Kunyu.

While internal parties were divided and uncertain about who was in control, an even more explosive piece of news reached Kunyu!

Many large companies periodically update their supplier databases, removing suppliers they haven't worked with for years and whose competitiveness is declining, and adding suppliers with good growth potential after negotiations. This supplier database is the source of the company's various purchases, and those with high satisfaction levels become long-term partners.

For a pure building materials company like Kunyu, steel bars, cement, and bricks can only be converted into cash through large-scale purchases by construction groups. Large construction groups are no less than their bread and butter. A construction group with projects all over the country can provide an incredibly strong boost to the business of building materials companies.

But at the beginning of this year, Kunyu Building Materials was removed from Pengcheng Construction's supplier database!

When they first heard the news, the entire Kunyu was stunned and couldn't believe it, because this was something no normal person could do!

Keep in mind that the two companies have been cooperating for over two years. To receive a cold, insincere notification without any prior consultation is incredibly rude and even arrogant! This is between companies, and between such large corporations at that. Didn't they consider the potential repercussions?

Of course, they panicked too. Pengcheng Construction was a representative of this era of massive infrastructure development, with projects all over the world, each a major undertaking. Losing this super client would be a huge blow to the entire Kunyu Group. What's worse, these days there aren't many engineering groups capable of building towers of hope or elevated highways, but companies producing steel and cement are everywhere. Since they weren't irreplaceable, they had already lost the first round.

Something unusual must be going on. After investigating, Kunyu concluded that the matter was—

It was on that man named Yu Dajun.

Even knowing all this seemed useless, because this person had gone to Africa for an inspection more than a month ago.

Without giving any hints or engaging in any discussions, they simply crossed out Yu Dajun in the supplier database. This made the Kunyu team wonder how they had offended Yu Dajun.

Hou Huanqing listened with a dark expression to the results of his secretary's investigation over several days—

In 2000, Hu Shutong and Yu Dajun worked in the same place. Later, due to an accident, Yu Dajun went to work on a construction site. Initially, Yu Dajun did ordinary engineering work, but later, probably because of Hu Shutong, he started working on cold storage construction.

After 2001, they started working on the southern suburbs, and that's when Yu Dajun switched jobs to Pengcheng. Later, from around 03 to 07, they worked together on Panhu Fishing Port, a project that greatly benefited Pengcheng's reputation and also propelled Yu Dajun to higher positions.

Furthermore, both Phase I and Phase II of Tongxing were built by Pengcheng, and payment was made after work was completed, which was likely facilitated by Yu Dajun. In the following two years, Yu Dajun became less active in the cold chain industry and began to focus on major domestic and international projects, so it was difficult for us to actually meet him in business dealings.

I only discovered little by little after making inquiries that these two people have many stories, and probably more than just these.

Hou Huan slammed his fist on the table. "Stop telling me stories! Call a meeting! Quickly schedule a meeting with this chairman and that general manager! Start the meeting now!"

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I've loved cold chain logistics for twenty years.