New commercial logistics park opens to ship local produce nationwide

By Yan Wanqin

The Yidu Commercial Logistics Park officially opened on September 23, marking a step forward in enhancing the nationwide distribution of local agricultural products. As one of 600 key commercial and logistics projects by China Co-op Group, the park is designed to streamline logistics and reduce costs while promoting regional goods across the country.

The Park, part of the group’s “612” project, opened with an exhibition featuring more than 1,000 specialty items from over 100 local enterprises. Products on display included Yidu tangerines, Yihong black tea, sturgeon caviar, Chinese caterpillar fungus, as well as local delicacies like Qiaohe tofu and Rongjiang ecological beef and mutton.

Exhibition areas for “Yidu Flavors,” Yichang products, and selected supply items were well-received by merchants and visitors. At the Qiaohe Food stall, which has operated for over 70 years, customers lined up to buy their products.

"Business has been great today. We brought about 500 pounds of tofu and dried tofu, and sold more than half within just two hours," said Fan Jiangqin, general manager of Yidu Qiaohe Food Co., Ltd. "The park's centralized cold chain logistics facilities will help us sell our products to other regions and increase sales," Fan added.

More than 50 village cadres and online influencers joined the opening, livestreaming the event and promoting local agricultural products. The launch attracted over 30,000 visitors and generated more than one million yuan in sales within three hours.

As a modern logistics hub in southwestern Hubei, the park integrates agricultural wholesale markets, cold chain storage, and e-commerce services. Its 10,000-ton smart cold storage facility will help address the region’s shortage of cold chain capacity.

The park has also attracted leading logistics providers, including SF Express, JD Logistics, and the "Three Tongs and Yunda,” creating a three-tier logistics network for standardized, full-chain management of agricultural products.

According to Liu Haiming, the general manager of the park, the project is projected to reduce logistics time by 30 percent and distribution costs by over 20 percent. This will enable local specialty products to gain greater national reach.

Yichang Manjuyi E-commerce Technology Co., Ltd., one of the first tenants, reported immediate benefits. “The park solves storage problems and lowers costs, allowing us to deliver agricultural products nationwide more quickly,” said Mao Kongshun, the company’s head.

During the event, the park signed strategic cooperation agreements with several cooperatives and processing enterprises to build direct links between farmers, companies, and markets, promoting precise production and sales. Supporting events such as “Appliances to the Countryside” and “Cars to the Countryside” were also held, encouraging the two-way flow of industrial goods to rural areas and farm products to cities.

On the same day, a golden autumn consumer campaign was launched, with 120,000 yuan in coupons distributed to boost local spending.

Fang Yonghua and Sun Yumin contributed to this story.