The National Development and Reform Commission has, after careful research, has decided on and released recently the construction list of a new batch of national backbone cold chain logistics bases, and Huadu Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center has a place on it. The bases included in this list play an exemplary and motivating role in improving the cold chain logistics network, meeting the consumption needs of residents, and leading the digital and green transformation and development of cold chain logistics.

Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center is currently not only the trading park of cold chain food with the most complete business functions and the most advanced facilities and equipment in the industry, but also the first full-temperature zone cold chain storage and trading park for frozen goods in Guangdong Province. It has successfully attracted the settlement of more than 500 leading enterprises of cold chain food operating in the mainstream product categories, including top enterprises having an annual transaction volume of more than 2 billion yuan, most notably Huayang and Qianfushan. The Center's advanced facilities, innovative form of business and green practices make it a core engine of the national backbone cold chain logistics base. The Center's inclusion in the national list, which not only enhances Guangzhou's pivotal position in the dual circulation economy, but also sets a benchmark for the intelligent and low-carbon development of the cold chain industry, will have a positive impact on the development of the cold chain industry and the overall economic construction of Huadu District.

Firstly, in terms of industrial upgrading, it will promote the clustering and modernization of the cold chain industrial chain in Huadu District, and enhance the industrial agglomeration effect. Yuhu Cold Chain is a "chain leader" enterprise that is engaged in all categories of cold chain food. Its international centralized procurement and auction model, and the "Cloud Yuhu" online platform and full-chain financial services are driving forces for the gathering of upstream and downstream enterprises of the cold chain in trade, processing and logistics, and the formation of an industrial ecosystem of "cold chain + agriculture + processing". Consequently, Huadu has now become a core area of the cold chain industry in the Greater Bay Area, moving up from a traditional logistics node to a "global cold chain product trading center".

Secondly, in terms of overall economy boosting, Yuhu Cold Chain has created high-quality employment opportunities for Huadu and surrounding areas. It has directly created thousands of jobs, and contributed indirectly to the creation of nearly 10,000 jobs, in warehousing management, smart logistics, international trade and other fields. At the same time, it has also driven social capital investment in a large scale. In recent years, Huadu's social capital investment in cold chain has focused on the construction of automated cold storage and photovoltaic facilities. The cooperation of Yuhu Cold Chain with JINGDONG, SF and other enterprises has further encouraged investment in supporting industries. After put into full operation, the Park has generated considerable annual transaction volumes, and has become a new growth pole of the regional economy.

Located in Huadu District, the only large-scale air-rail dual hub in the GHM Greater Bay Area, Yuhu Cold Chain have ready access to Baiyun Airport, Guangzhou North Railway Station and Nansha Port to create a "sea, land, air and rail" multimodal transport network, and special cold chain routes to Yantian Port and Nansha Port are established to improve cross-border logistics efficiency. With its appointment as one of the "dual cores" of Guangzhou's national backbone cold chain base, it will, in coordination with the road-rail intermodal transport hub in the east, promote Huadu to upgrade from a regional logistics center to an "international cold chain trade gateway", becoming a national strategic node.

In addition, Yuhu Cold Chain's driving effect has been manifested in the upgrading of commercial and residential facilities around Huadong Town; a development example of "promoting the city through production" has been created, and high-end talents have been attracted to settle down there. At the same time, it also empowers the agricultural modernization of Huadu District and drives the construction of supporting cold storage for local high-value agricultural products.

Yuhu Cold Chain (Guangzhou) Trading Center, after receiving the identity as a "national backbone base", constitutes a core engine of Huadu's industrial transformation, which can stimulate employment, attract investment, and activate the agricultural industry chain in the short term, and in the long run, will help Huadu to establish itself as a "global cold chain trade hub", promote its transformation of green and smart logistics, and deeply integrate itself into the national strategy of the Greater Bay Area. In the future, after successful connection of the cold chain network with Chengdu, Wuhan and other bases, Huadu is expected to become a key point connecting the domestic and international dual circulation.