在“一带一路”托盘共享行动（BRAPS）启动会上的致辞

国际采购与供应管理联盟亚太区主席、中国物流与采购联合会副会长 蔡进

2021年11月15日

尊敬的罗伯特·霍利格（Robert Holliger）、贝恩德·杜尔雷（Bernd Doerre ）先生以及EPAL的各位朋友：

你们好，很高兴能够与大家在线上相见。首先，我很荣幸能够出任BRAPS的主席一职，代表中国物流与采购联合会（CFLP）与欧洲托盘协会（EPAL）进行深入交流合作，此次会议是一带一路托盘共享行动（BRAPS）的正式启动会议，标志着我们与欧洲托盘协会合作进入新的阶段，也意味着中国和欧洲托盘共享事业踏入新的征程，这将是托盘全球化合作的开端。

探讨中欧托盘合作，离不开中欧经济与物流发展的大背景。自从中国“一带一路”倡议提出以来，中国与沿线国家贸易来往更加频繁，加强了中欧间经济和贸易发展的对接和融合，促进了经济合作和互动交流，“一带一路”已经成为源于中国、世界共享的重要发展机遇，具有强劲生命力和广阔发展前景。物流业是基础性、战略性、服务型产业，在国际贸易中发挥着重要的作用，特别是中欧班列在“一带一路”下得到了快速发展，目前中欧班列累计开行超过4万列，合计货值超过2000亿美元，打通73条运行线路，通达欧洲23个国家的160多个城市，在全球疫情蔓延的情况下，横跨亚欧大陆的中欧班列凭借其独特优势，成为了一条恢复经济发展的新通道。托盘作为物流基础单元，是中欧班列等多种运输方式中的重要器具，在“一带一路”商贸流通、物流运输、加强中欧经贸合作中发挥着极其重要的作用。

近年来，中国托盘行业的发展已经打下了较好的基础，托盘产能持续扩张，标准化工作不断推进，应用场景也越来越多。随着中国产业的转型升级和不断发展，现阶段中国托盘行业进入了转型升级时期，也是对外合作新的窗口期。

一是巨大的市场空间对托盘行业提出了更高的需求。中国作为全球最大的发展中国家，经济一直保持着高速稳定发展，中国社会物流总额已超300万亿，这个物流规模仍在持续扩大，这对于托盘这一基础性设备而言，带来了广阔发展空间的同时，也提出了新的要求和挑战。

二是托盘产业在中国及国际物流发展中的地位和作用将显著提升。当前，中国物流行业更加注重高质量发展，向自动化、智能化发展方向转变，托盘将成为未来供应链创新过程中最基础且不可或缺的元素，同时也是移动智能化的重要载体，托盘的循环使用与互认共享，对于衔接中欧之间贸易，提高中欧之间物流效率具有重要的作用。

三是托盘标准的完善与应用将推动托盘国际化共享的进程。中国一直以来十分重视托盘标准化体系的建设，近两年，托盘基础标准的梳理与研究工作进一步加强，特别是中欧托盘标准对接的研究，这对于国内标准托盘的循环使用，以及国际托盘标准的对接具有重要意义，也是托盘国际共享的基础。

四是数字化发展方向加速托盘产业转型升级。中国托盘产业已经向规模化、集约化方向转变，基础能力在不断加强，同时智能化技术的应用，提高了托盘在生产、使用中的便利性，托盘循环共用和智能化托盘得到快速发展，欧洲托盘在这一方面具有成熟的经验，在托盘对接的过程中，可以互利互惠，进一步推进托盘产业的数字化进程。

在此时机下，“一带一路”倡议下的中欧托盘共享行动，是推动中欧贸易与物流发展的重要举措，BRAPS是顺应时代发展而形成的，不仅是全球化托盘共享的先行者，也是助力物流国际化与供应链一体化发展的重要手段和途径。希望通过中欧间托盘的对接，可以加强“一带一路”合作倡议与欧洲发展战略对接，推动中欧互联互通平台建设。

中国物流与采购联合会作为中国物流行业的协会组织，一直以来致力于托盘产业发展与应用，此次BRAPS的开启，意味着托盘国际化工作走向新的阶段，也是中物联在国际物流与供应链合作的重要举措。欧洲托盘协会（EPAL）作为欧洲托盘行业的引领者，在托盘生产、管理、运营等多方面具有深厚的经验，一直以来，与我们中国物流与采购联合会保持着紧密的合作沟通与联系，是我们重要的合作伙伴。期待在未来的合作中，能够相互尊重，携起手来共同推进中欧托盘的发展，探索出一条适应新时代发展的国际托盘共享之路，共同推进物流与供应链全球化发展进程。

最后，再次感谢EPAL的各位同仁，期望我们今天可以充分交流，达成共识，谢谢！

英文全文如下：

Appointment speech of Mr. Cai Jin on the Belt and Road action of pallet sharing (BRAPS)  forum 

Distinguished Mr. Robert Holliger, Mr. Bernd Doerre and fiends from EPAL,

Nice to meet you online. I feel very honored to be the President of BRAPS, and to work with EPAL on behalf of CFLP. This forum marks the official commencement of BRAPS, and a new phase of cooperation between CFLP and EPAL. Meanwhile, this means that the China-Europe pallet sharing embarked a brand new journey, and a starting point of global cooperation in pallet sector.

We need to discuss the China-Europe pallet cooperation in the context of China-Europe economic and logistic development. Since The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed, The trade between China and the countries along the route was intensified. China-Europe economic and trade development was also accelerated, strengthening the economic cooperation, communication and interaction. The BRI has become an important development opportunity from China but for the world, thanks to its vigor, resilience and potential for development. Logistics plays an important role in international trade as a basic and strategic service industry. In particular, China-Europe Railway Express developed rapidly under the BRI. At present, a total of 40,000 trips have been made by the freight trains between China and Europe, generating a combined value of more than 200 billion U.S. dollars and connecting up 73 routes in operation across more than 160 cities in 23 European countries. When the pandemic wreaks havoc worldwide, the China Railway Express, with its unique advantages, serves as a new pathway in the economic recovery. As a basic unit in logistics, pallet is an important instrument for multiple transportation modes, including the China-Europe Railway Express, with its extremely important role in the trade, transportation and China-Europe economic cooperation along the Belt and Road.

In recent years, the development of Chinese pallet industry laid a good foundation for the continuous expansion of the industry’s capacity, standardization and application scenarios. However, as China experienced the continuous industrial transformation, upgrade and development, the pallet industry also came to transformation and upgrading period, which is a new moment for foreign cooperation.

Ⅰ. The huge market has higher demand for the pallet industry. As the world's largest developing country, China maintained steady and fast development for years. Its total logistics has exceeded 300 trillion RMB, while the size continues to grow. For pallet, the basic instrument in the industry, not only does it create a broad space for development, but also pose new requirements and challenges on the way forward.

Ⅱ. The pallet industry will play an even more significant role in the development of Chinese and international logistics. At present, China’s logistics industry has shifted to high-quality development, featuring mechanization, automation and intelligent growth. Pallet will be the most basic and indispensable element in the future supply chain innovation, and an important carrier in intelligent mobility. Its recycle, mutual recognition and sharing will play an important role in China-Europe trade, and in increasing the efficiency of logistics in China-Europe.

Ⅲ. The improvement and application of pallet standards will accelerate the international pallets sharing. China always attaches importance to the development of pallet standardization system. In the past two years, it further enhanced the review and research of basic pallet standards, especially the research in the alignment of Chinese and European pallet standards. Such research is important for the recycling of standard pallets in China, and the alignment with international pallet standards. Also, it serves as the foundation for the international pallets sharing.

Ⅳ. Digitalized development accelerates the upgrade of pallet industry. The industry has shifted to socialized and intensive development, and continuously strengthened its basic capacity. It applied intelligent technologies, and improved the convenient production and utilization of pallet, enabling the rapid development of pallet recycling, sharing as well as intelligent pallet. Europe has mature experience in this field. In the pallet-related cooperation, China and Europe could benefit and complement each other, in order to further boost the digitalization of the pallet industry.

At the moment, BRAPS marks an important step in promoting the development of China-Europe trade and logistics, and also corresponds to the new development trend in the new era. BRAPS is not only a pioneer in global pallet sharing, but also an important means in boosting the internationalization of logistics and the integration of supply chain. Through BRAPS, I hope we can help to enhance the connection between BRI and European development strategies, and the China-Europe connectivity.

As an industrial association in the logistics sector, CFLP dedicates to facilitating the development and application of pallet in China. The initiative of BRAPS will push the pallet internationalization to a new period, and will serve as an important measure by CFLP in the international cooperation in logistics and supply chain. As a leader in the European pallet industry, EPAL has rich experiments in pallet production, management and operation. It maintained close communication and connection with CFLP for years, and is an important partner of us. We hope that both parties would respect each other, and join hands to promote the development of China-Europe pallet in the future cooperation. We will develop a new way of international pallet sharing applicable to the new era in order to facilitate the globalization of logistics and supply chain.

The last but not the least, I would express my sincere gratitude to the EPAL colleagues, and look forward to an open, frank and thorough communication as well as a concrete consensus in particular. Thank you!