On April 8, Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center was grandly opened. As one of the key projects of Guangdong Province during the 14th Five Year Plan period, the official operation of this project became a new benchmark for China's cold chain. About 2,700 people from merchant representatives, financial institutions and supply chain partners, visited and negotiated in the park to witness this historic moment.

Cold chain flagship sets sail to innovate supply chain trading services

The park carefully planned a series of opening activities that focus on different business sectors such as supply chain services, online and offline integrated trading services including logistics services, auction services, and membership services to provide visitors with a comprehensive and in-depth experience. On the opening day, the first auction was held in the Convention and Exhibition Center, which can accommodate more than 1,000 people. The auctions included Nordic salmon, Australian lobster, European and American seafood and other special auctions, and many guests participated in the online auction.

"This is the first time I have been able to connect with overseas suppliers," said a merchant participating in the auction. Yuhu Cold Chain took the lead in introducing the international advanced collectivy-collection auction model, and built a high-specification auction hall in the center.

It is worth mentioning that Yuhu Cold Chain has a rich range of trading formats, including international frozen goods trading area, warehouse and trade integrated trading area, horizontal freezer trading area, and innovative trading support area. Among them, the e-commerce trading and incubation base of the trading support area integrates new business models such as live broadcasting, Yuhu trading culture and online trading, which will provide more convenient and efficient supply chain services for the Greater Bay Area.

Up to now, nearly 100% of the trading area of Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center have been signed. More than 400 leading enterprises covering all mainstream product categories in the cold chain food industry have settled in the park, enjoying convenient and efficient one-stop services of Yuhu Cold Chain. Many of them are top enterprises in various fields with an annual trading volume of over 2 billion yuan.

Building a high-standard cold chain park

to enable online and offline trading services

With a construction area of 385,000 square meters and a storage capacity of 124,000 tons, Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center is located in Huadu District, Guangzhou, where the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area large-scale air and rail hub is located. The park is equipped with a cold storage with a capacity of over 100000 tons and a smart logistics distribution center. In strict accordance with international high standards. In the park, a total of five cold storage units of three types has been built, including single-layer elevated storage, multi-temperature zone building storage, and automatic three-dimensional storage, which can provide full temperature coverage from normal temperature to minus 60 degrees Celsius. Various Internet of Things devices are installed in the cold storage, and the park is equipped with the Yuhu Smart Logistics Management System and an underground transportation system covering over 90000 square meters and connecting the entire park. This truly realized the orderly separation of people, goods, and vehicles, ensuring continuous temperature control throughout the transportation of cold chain products.

Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center took the lead in drawing a blueprint for the new quality productivity of the cold chain food industry and put it into practice. Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center, the most complete cold chain food trading park with the most advanced facilities and equipment in the industry, is divided into three areas according to its functions, i.c. trading area, cold storage area and supporting area. It can provide full-chain services such as one-stop sourcing from domestic and foreign sources, online and offline integrated trading services, full-chain innovative financial support, as well as warehousing, trunk transportation, and distribution logistics solutions.

It is learnt that Yuhu Cold chain is currently intensifying the construction of the largest cold chain project cluster in China, and plans to build more than 10 first-level trading centers in China's core logistics hub cities, and more than 30 second-level hubs in major logistics node cities, so as to realize the physical network layout of multi-level circulation, and integrate the full chain including order direct purchasing, warehousing and logistics, product display and experience, trading and delivery. It also planned to provide robust supply chain financial services to open up logistics, business flow, information flow and capital flow, and build a stable, safe and traceable cross-border cold chain product supply chain system.

Deeply cultivating the market in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and assisting in upgrading the industry's new quality productivity

The grand opening of Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center is not only a new chapter in the cold chain logistics industry in South China, but also a vivid practice of promoting the high-quality development of cold chain logistics in the Bay Area. It is closely in line with the national development of new quality productivity of macro policy guidance, effectively makes up for the shortcomings of China’s cold chain industry. With an innovative business model, the center successfully integrates domestic and international cold chain logistics networks to ensure that global cold chain foods reach consumers' tables quickly and safely from their origin.

Qin Yuming, Secretary-General of the Cold Chain Logistics Professional Committee, CFLP, highly affirmed Yuhu Cold Chain's active practice in leading and participating in the formulation of international standards. He said: “Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center has played a positive leading role in our national cold chain frozen goods trading market. It promoted the development of the entire industry to a more efficient and intelligent direction, and injected new impetus into the construction of this system, which not only has a significant benchmarking significance in China, but also has an important demonstration role in the global cold chain logistics system.”

Huang Xiangmo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Yuhu Group, expressed his hope to ensure the stable supply of high-quality food, and continue to create a guarantee of higher quality life for the Greater Bay Area by establishing a high standard, large capacity, and full chain cold chain food trading center, forming a large-scale cold chain industry cluster, and enhancing the radiation power of the Greater Bay Area.

Yuhu Cold Chain is committed to building a top full supply chain platform, which not only closely conforms to the important path of developing modern agriculture and food industry clusters in Huadu District, but also meets the internal needs of cultivating new quality agricultural productivity and the needs of the urban consumer market in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Its professional cold chain services effectively guarantee the quality and food safety of agricultural products, promote the efficient circulation and marketization of agricultural products, and inject new vitality into the "hundred - thousand - ten thousand project".

At the same time, the advantages of Yuhu cold chain also deeply promote the integration of the first, second and third industries, the efficient connection of the industrial chain and the industrial agglomeration, the strengthen the chain, injects new impetus into the double circular economy at home and abroad. These advantages also provide important support for the development of modern agriculture and food industry in a "agricultural and food integration" way in Huadu District, and help to enhance the regional economy and livelihood benefits.