CCTV News: The China Federation of Logistics and Procurement released the China logistics industry prosperity index in February on March 4. After the Spring Festival, logistics demand was released in an orderly manner, especially in late February, the physical logistics volume indicators increased significantly, and the total business volume in the eastern and central regions continued to expand.

In February, China's logistics industry prosperity index was 49.3%. With the orderly progress of resumption of work after the holiday, major projects in various regions have been started in a concentrated manner, and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain have recovered steadily. The prosperity of the road and railway transportation industries is in the expansion range, and the activity of the water transportation industry continues to improve. The logistics activity of multimodal transport and postal express e-commerce sectors continues to increase, with the total business index reaching a high level of 55.6% and 66.3% respectively.

From the business operation situation, the increase in the cost of logistics companies in February slowed down, and the profit index of the main business increased by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month. By industry, the profit index of main business in the fields of road transport, water transport, warehousing and multimodal transport has increased to varying degrees compared with the previous month.

From the later market, the expected index of business activity in February was 54.4%, which remained at a high level. The expected index of business activity in the railway and air transport industries is higher than the overall level of the logistics industry, which will play a stable support role in the overall recovery of logistics demand in the later period.