Source: International Business Daily.
The 2016 Boao International Logistics Forum, themed Intelligence, Connectivity and Innovation, will be held from November 30 to December 3 at the Boao Forum for Asia International Convention Center. The forum was jointly founded and hosted by the China Communications and Transportation Association, the Department of Commerce of Hainan Province, and the Department of Transport of Hainan Province. It is jointly organized by the China Logistics City Alliance, Logistics Times Weekly, Shanghai Maritime University, China Urban Logistics Research Center and Jieshang Media. Nearly 2,000 people are expected to attend, including government leaders from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Standardization Administration of China, representatives of local governments, hundreds of university representatives, experts and scholars, well-known industry enterprises, representatives of related research institutions, and representatives from countries along the Belt and Road. As the first Boao International Logistics Forum, this event is both a year-end summary for the industry and a major gathering for logistics professionals. The forum mainly consists of the opening plenary session, city summit, enterprise summit, think tank summit, talent summit, and the China Logistics Industry Golden Pegasus Awards evening.
Logistics Talks by Department and Bureau Directors, a highlight of the opening plenary session, will invite a well-known industry expert to moderate a high-level dialogue among principal leaders from provincial commerce departments and transport departments on the development of the logistics industry. It is highly anticipated by the industry. The city summit is one of the core parts of the forum and will invite leaders from relevant national departments, deputy mayors in charge of logistics from logistics center cities, responsible officials, member city representatives and liaison officers of the China Logistics City Alliance, experts and scholars. During the Mayors Forum, guidance will be provided for national central cities, regional central cities and cities along the Belt and Road on regional economic cooperation and coordinated logistics development. Guests will discuss in depth such hot topics as how central cities can play their role and drive surrounding cities to share development opportunities, how to break down city barriers and serve the Belt and Road to achieve symbiosis and win-win results, and the challenges and countermeasures encountered in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative. The dialogue session will also feature well-known industry experts, association leaders and city representatives discussing opportunities and challenges in international urban logistics cooperation.
The enterprise summit is also one of the core parts of the forum. It will focus on several hot topics, including how to play the role of industry benchmarks and enhance international competitiveness, how to use industrial restructuring opportunities to promote development, how new overload-control policies are shaping a new highway freight ecosystem, how air cargo is adapting to professional transformation and upgrading, and how express transport and express delivery can integrate for win-win results. The summit will summarize the logistics industry in 2016 and forecast the development of the industry in the coming year. The think tank summit, as the debut of China Logistics 100, will be a gathering of ideas and wisdom. It will mainly include the founding and unveiling ceremony of China Logistics 100, expert discussions on trends and prospects, and dialogues on hot industries. The 2016 China Logistics Industry Golden Pegasus Awards evening will be the finale of the forum. It has been successfully held for nine editions and is an awards event with strong credibility and influence in China's logistics industry. Known as the Oscars of the logistics industry, the Golden Pegasus Awards evening brings together elites from across China's logistics sector and will further demonstrate the supreme value of the forum.
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Highlight One: Establishing the council and releasing the Boao Logistics Declaration
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Boao Forum for Asia, which has played a vital role in supporting Asian development. The logistics forum will also adopt the council system of the Boao Forum for Asia and establish a council. The purpose is to ensure that the forum can be held regularly at a fixed time and place, build a platform for governments, enterprises, experts and scholars to discuss issues related to the logistics industry, and create the largest logistics industry event in China and even Asia. At the council launch ceremony, the Boao Logistics Declaration will also be released. It regards the logistics industry as an important strategy for promoting economic development, actively responds to the Belt and Road Initiative, builds a major channel for the strategic development of China's logistics, and continuously enhances the international influence of China's logistics industry.
Highlight Two: Establishing the university logistics alliance
The forum will launch the China University Logistics Alliance, jointly initiated by multiple logistics universities, well-known logistics enterprises and research institutions. The alliance aims to build a collaborative, innovative and interconnected school-enterprise exchange platform for logistics talent in Chinese universities. Through exchange seminars, talent training matchmaking, joint formulation of talent development plans, innovation and entrepreneurship talent development plans, and promotion of business standards, it will connect universities and enterprises to jointly establish logistics talent training bases. It will coordinate in-depth cooperation between logistics universities and enterprises with various logistics talent needs. It will also build an online recruitment platform for the supply and demand of logistics talent and create a direct employment channel for graduates of logistics-related majors. By continuously gathering high-quality resources from logistics universities nationwide in faculty, logistics support, innovation and entrepreneurship offices, and work-study programs, the platform will truly achieve interconnection.
Highlight Three: Launching the logistics industry Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Project
This project was first initiated by Logistics Times Weekly. It is mainly based on the industry situation in which the training of logistics talent at higher education institutions cannot meet the needs of the rapidly developing logistics industry, the level of logistics talent is still not well matched with logistics enterprises, innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities among logistics talent remain insufficient, and senior logistics management talent still cannot meet industry demand. The project will be implemented over ten years, joining 100 universities to train ten thousand senior logistics professionals for 1,000 cities. It will promote a high proportion of output of high-end logistics talent, activate new momentum for logistics development driven by talent, and improve the effective supply of logistics talent. In addition, as a supporting institution of the Boao International Logistics Forum, China Logistics 100, led by Logistics Times Weekly and guided by the purpose of promoting logistics development through wisdom, will invite 100 top experts in the industry. Focusing on industrial needs, it will gather leading industry wisdom and carry out research reports, initiative interpretation, strategic judgment, policy analysis, project planning and evaluation, jointly promoting the positive and healthy development of China's logistics industry.