Research on current development and development pattern of China´s agricultural cold chain logistics

The price of fresh agricultural products is rising constantly and the problem of food safety occurs frequently in China recent years. One of the important reasons is the lower circulating efficiency in addition to inflation and moral factors. This paper analyzes the current development of China´s cold chain logistics. For example, the infrastructures of cold chain logistics fall behind; third party logistics develop slowly; the level of supply chain management is low; the standards of cold chain logistics is lack; cold chain awareness needs to be improved further. Based on this, the paper summarize four kinds of cold chain logistics development patterns which treat respectively processing enterprises, third party cold chain logistics enterprises, logistics center and supermarket chain as the core of supply chain. As an innovation point, the paper proposed the cold chain logistics development pattern based on resource integration.