In 2013, the total amount of social logistics in China was 197.8 trillion yuan, with a nominal year-on-year growth of 11.6 percent, and the year-on-year growth rate was 9.5 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous year. In the first half of the year, the growth rate increased by 9.4 percent, 9.1 percent in the first half of the year, 9.5 percent in the first three quarters of the year, and the trend of a "steady recovery" to a "steady recovery".
In terms of composition, industrial goods logistics totaled 181.5 trillion yuan in 2013, an increase of 9.7 percent year on year and 0.3 percentage points lower than the previous year. The total amount of imported goods logistics was 12.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percent, and the increase was 1.3 percentage points lower than the previous year. The total amount of agricultural products logistics increased by 4.0% year on year, and the growth rate was 0.6 percentage points lower than that of the previous year. Thanks to the rapid growth of e-commerce and shopping, the total logistics of unit and resident goods maintained a rapid growth, with year-on-year growth of 30.4%, an increase of 6.9 percentage points over the previous year. By green economy, low-carbon economy and circular economy rapid development, rapid growth of renewable resources total logistics, up 20.3% from a year earlier, the growth speed up by 10.2% over the previous year, as the current situation of the development of China's logistics industry and regional investment opportunity analysis report.
In 2013, the total cost of social logistics was 10.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3 percent, and the increase was 2.1 percentage points lower than that of the previous year. In 2013, the ratio of total social logistics expenses to GDP was 18.0%, unchanged from the previous year. It reflects that the logistics cost of China's economic and social operation is still high.