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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 18 China Logistics Rapids Invisible Waves The logistics industry - companies ‘third profit source’ The future of the logistics industry has been regarded as the core competitiveness of enterprise development, logistics and field of economic growth has even been regarded as the ‘dark continent’, is’ to reduce the cost of the final frontier ‘, is to reduce resource consumption, improve labor productivity after the’ third profit source ‘. With the global economy to promote the industrialization process, logistics as a ‘third profit source’ of the importance of the national economy gradually being recognized. 1997 After the economic crisis in Southeast Asia, people in Southeast Asia in the analysis and summary of the situation in various countries and regions found that the logistics industry as an important pillar industries in Singapore, Hong Kong has a strong ability to resist the economic crisis. For example, in 1998 influenced by the financial turmoil of Malaysia’s economic growth -6.8% -8.0% in Thailand, ASEAN to -9.4%, compared with Hong Kong is better, in order to -5 .1%, while Singapore achieved a positive growth of 1.5%. From then on, people aware of the logistics for the country’s economic development has a very important significance, logistics, level of development has become an important embodiment of country’s comprehensive national strength. In many developed countries, the logistics industry have been developed into a large-scale industries. Such as Japan, in the past 20 years, the logistics industry growth of 2.6% each, total economic output has increased by 1%. In the U.S., the scale of the logistics industry has reached 900 billion U.S. dollars, almost twice as much high-tech industries. After many years of logistics industry development in Japan, and the United States has become a giant on a number of industries. The United States, Federal Express, in 1995 turnover reached 12.5 billion U.S. dollars; Japan, Sagawa Expres