A logistics worker transports imported Chilean cherries by forklift at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on November 20, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of China Eastern Airlines
China’s logistics size reached 56.3 trillion yuan ($7.76 trillion) in the first two months of 2025, marking a 5.3 percent year-on-year increase. The sector has sustained momentum of steady recovery, with high-tech manufacturing logistics leading the growth, China Media Group (CMG) reported, citing the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP).
Manufacturing-related logistics demand rose steadily in January-February. The total logistics volume of industrial products grew 5.9 percent year-on-year, with demand for high-tech manufacturing logistics up by 9.1 percent, CMG reported.
Market demand for products like robots, industrial control systems, carbon fiber composites, and rare-earth magnets has seen a rapid growth.
Meanwhile, government stimulus policy promoting large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-ins has kept on driving faster logistical demand growth in many industrial lines and manufactured products, CMG said.
And, logistical demand in railway equipment manufacturing sector rose over 20 percent year-on-year. Automotive and household appliance manufacturing sector demand saw double-digit growth, CFLP data showed.
China’s logistics sector has witnessed a stable growth and moderate recovery in the first two months of 2025, He Hui, chief economist of CFLP, told the Global Times on Sunday.
Both industrial and consumer goods logistics have maintained stable expansion, while accelerating construction activity helps boost related logistics demand. This indicates that the government’s effective policy support is shoring up logistics sector operations, He Hui noted.
