Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua of Yonghui Supermarket both accepted the invitation and went with Qi Zheng to see what he called the "secret weapon" that could help the "fresh mode" achieve the extreme. Look at 'Mao's line, Chinese, and net

A few people first went to the next door in Viet Province, because there is the largest and most advanced cold storage in Jiagu Commerce.

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua were not very surprised that they came to cold storage at the first stop.

For fresh supermarkets, the intermediate link cold chain logistics is the core, and the cold storage is the core of the core.

In addition to capital, Jiagu can give direct help to fresh supermarkets, probably agricultural product production bases and cold chain logistics.

However, even if there was some speculation, when they saw this large cold storage in front of them, the two of them were still amazed by Jiagu's abundant resources.

From the outside, this cold storage is built on the mountain, the outer buildings of the warehouse are blue and white, and rows of refrigerated trucks enter and exit on the loading and unloading platform.

This is one of the achievements of the Jiagu food distribution subsidiary led by Zhong Huazhi in the past three years.

"This is a large-scale cold storage based on the urban distribution center of our Jiagu system, with 20,000 square meters of first-class high-quality cold storage in China, with a storage capacity of 40,000 tons, which can radiate most of the Pearl River Delta. Jiagu's food ingredients distribution subsidiary transports the ingredients purchased from all over the world to this cold storage center for storage, and the cold storage center delivers them to the front warehouses in each city by regional refrigerated trucks, and then distributes them to customers. Qi Zheng took the initiative to introduce the two.

"Front-end warehouse?" Before he had time to exclaim, Zhang Xuansong was keenly aware of the hidden information in Qi Zheng's words.

Qi Zheng glanced at him appreciatively and said, "After three years of investment, Jiagu has formed a warehouse and distribution network system covering the two provinces of Minyue. At present, there are three types of cold storage: A, B and C to meet the needs of different sizes of the market. ”

"Class A library is the largest cold storage among the three types of storage, with an area of more than 10,000 square meters and more than 300 stores. In addition to being used for the storage and transportation of fresh food, it also undertakes the function of regional scheduling. The main function of Class B and Class C warehouses is sorting, and the number of stores served is less than 300. The front warehouse is a C-type library, which can serve more diversified retail scenarios as a supplementary form of stores. ”

"If Jiangnan Province is included, the Jiagu system has now laid out three Class A libraries, and there are more than 20 Class B libraries and Class C libraries. ”

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua gasped when they heard this.

Despite the high requirements for the timeliness of transportation, the cold chain logistics network built by Yonghui Supermarket is simply vulnerable in the face of the Jiagu system.

Because the cost of building cold chain logistics is too high.

Not to mention Yonghui supermarket, in China, no supermarket dares to say that the circulation channels of fresh food have achieved complete coverage of cold chain logistics. Even if some channels are covered by cold chain logistics, they are realized in a simple way of room temperature transport vehicles, quilts and canned ice cubes, and there are few formal cold chain logistics equipment.

Of course, Jiagu's cold chain logistics system has not been able to cover the whole country, but the layout of just the three provinces is enough to make Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua drool.

The cold chain logistics industry is a typical industry with obvious scale effect, with high initial investment costs, but the larger the business volume in the later stage, the lower the average cost after apportionment, and the faster the return on investment in facilities and equipment.

But many investors are stuck on the initial investment cost.

In addition, the national conditions are also one of the reasons why the cold chain logistics industry has a difficult start.

Looking at the United States, Japan and other countries with extremely high cold chain logistics coverage, there are two common characteristics: the specialized division of labor and standardized product packaging of the origin.

Domestically, it's completely different.

Taking China's pork production market as an example, there is no obvious main pork producing area in China. The country is basically showing a trend of pork self-sufficiency, which leads to the small circulation of pork products in China, the transportation distance is short, and the demand for cold chain logistics is actually less than expected.

The production pattern of fruits and vegetables in China is similar.

Due to the lack of obvious specialization and division of labor in the production areas of fresh food, the circulation pattern of fresh food in various regions mainly presents a trend of self-sufficiency. This model allows most of the fresh food to circulate in the region, with short transportation distances and short transportation times.

Under the model of food supply in the periphery of the city, most of the fresh food can be circulated or even consumed within a day, in this case, businesses are more inclined to choose to accept a small amount of losses caused by room temperature logistics, rather than investing a lot of capital to buy cold chain logistics equipment.

Standardized packaging is better understood - if the east's agricultural products are packaged in foam boxes, and the west's are packaged in different cartons and baskets, it is a nightmare for cold chain logistics companies.

Only agricultural enterprises like Jiagu have their own production bases for specialized production, as well as the business needs of food distribution, of course, the most important thing is to have money, in order to establish this set of cold chain logistics network system that has begun to take shape in this era.

But even so, relying solely on the food distribution business, Jiagu's current cold chain logistics network system service capacity is actually excessive, if you don't want to open to a third party, then you have to expand your own camp of fresh business, which is also one of the reasons why Qi Zheng wants to incorporate Yonghui Supermarket into Jiagu system.

But I won't tell Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua about this.

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Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua naturally didn't know the careful thinking behind it, and as the visit continued, the amazement of the two deepened.

"The system valves, refrigeration equipment, and cold storage insulation of the entire cold storage are all at the domestic first-class level. Standing in the control room of the refrigeration machine room, the person in charge of the cold storage was very proud to introduce to Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua. "You see there are thousands of switches here, but through our computer system, only one person is needed to control and manage, and this can be said to be the most advanced cold storage in the province, not one of them. ”

Although he secretly praised the advanced nature of cold storage, as the ultimate goal of cold storage construction, "efficiency" and "cost" are still the first focus of Zhang Xuansong's consideration: "What is the fresh consumption rate in this cold storage, and is the operating cost high?"

When the person in charge of the cold storage heard this question, his expression was even a little fanatical, "You may not believe it, the fresh loss rate in the cold storage is less than 01, which is almost negligible." As for the operating costs, don't look at this as a large cold storage, in fact, the energy consumption is a little higher than that of a small cold storage......"

"How is that possible?" Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua barely managed to maintain a calm look and collapsed.

You are too exaggerated, I know that your cold storage is advanced, but the loss rate and operating costs are not advanced can be explained.

The two couldn't help but look back at Qi Zheng, but saw that Qi Zheng kept smiling, but had no intention of refutating.

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua glanced at each other, Qi Zheng didn't react, and there was no need for Jiagu to lie to them in this regard, or rather, there was no need to deceive them with such an exaggerated reason.

That is, although unbelievable, but maybe, probably, it could be true?

It's too wicked, isn't it?

For fresh food, one less loss means that the profit will be thicker.

“...... How did you do that?" asked Zhang Xuansong with difficulty.

The person in charge of the cold storage smiled, "Of course, it depends on site selection, advanced equipment system and management." ”

"Our cold storage, formerly known as an air-raid shelter, was rebuilt by the group, and the natural low temperature is unique. ”

"The operating costs of cold storage are mainly composed of electricity, maintenance, management fees and other miscellaneous items. We have a mature management team, which can carefully operate and accurately adjust the operation of the refrigeration equipment, so that the refrigeration system is always in the most ideal working condition and achieve the effect of high efficiency and energy saving. ”

"We also make full use of the temperature difference between day and night, the ambient temperature at night is low, and the night start-up time can be adjusted and extended according to the storage characteristics of the product, because the condensing temperature is relatively low, which is conducive to the energy saving of the cold storage......

"Unified packaging, and standardized inbound and outbound regulations, firmly control the loss rate ......"

"It is this kind of management that has led to an incredibly low attrition rate and operating costs. ”

is reasonable, Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua were stunned.

Qi Zheng smiled silently, silently feeling the operation of the spirit array under his feet.

"The Frost Withering Autumn Array (First Order) is triggered, the main water and fire system, and the range is ten kilometers. Effect of cream, freezing. It can make the frost and ice, into autumn to winter. ”

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It's true that the bomb shelter is advanced, it's true that it's well managed, but the miracle is not just the work of these three.

"Frost withering autumn array", a natural "refrigerator", can transfer the heat in the array to create low temperatures.

And not only to lower the temperature, but also to promote the dormancy of living organisms at the cellular level, maintaining the absolute quality of refrigerated products.

What's more, the process is fully automated.

Take fruit as an example, fruit is a living organism, and the dormant temperature of each fruit is different, for example, after the kiwifruit is sent to cold storage, the management personnel will quickly reduce the temperature to 0 degrees within half an hour, and theoretically it is in the dormant period at this time.

However, it is not known whether it has actually entered a dormant period. At this time, the "Frost Withering Autumn Array" will fine-tune the temperature in the warehouse to make it reach the optimal temperature for kiwifruit dormancy.

This is the real "non-consumption" dormancy, and when it is moved out of the 0 degree library, it breaks the dormancy period and starts to ripen after it, at which time the taste and flavor of the "non-destructive" kiwifruit will be completely improved.

This is the real reason why the loss rate of fresh food in cold storage is almost zero.

As for the cost, not to mention the operating cost, it is the cost of cold storage construction, there is such a natural "big refrigerator", it is a matter of course to reduce it - one of the biggest investments in cold storage construction is refrigeration equipment. In view of the fact that "natural" low-temperature places such as air-raid shelters can always be found in the site, the selection of refrigeration equipment is quite relaxed.

Otherwise, such a class A cold storage, the cost of at least tens of millions of starts, with the group's investment in Jiagu food distribution company, is absolutely unable to establish today's cold chain logistics network with more than 20 cold storages of different sizes and hundreds of thousands of refrigerated trucks worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

There is also an absolute advantage that the "frost withering autumn array" is the most "energy-saving" spirit array used by Qi Zheng, but it only assists in the cooling of cold storage, it is only a first-order spirit array, Qi Zheng estimates that it will not be a problem to run for hundreds of years - it is difficult to say whether the cold storage can exist for hundreds of years.

Of course, on the bright side, Qi Zheng expressed considerable recognition of the self-selling and boasting of the person in charge of the cold storage.

As for Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua, who do not know the truth, they are full of admiration for the management of Jiagu's cold chain logistics system.

Qi Zheng said to them, "Although the early construction cost of the cold chain logistics system is large, the economies of scale brought by this mature supply chain system can further reduce costs for the company's operations." ”

"If Yonghui Supermarket and Jiagu reach a cooperation, our cold chain logistics capacity will be open to you, at least it can save you more than eighty percent of the cold chain logistics construction investment. ”

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua were both thrilled when they heard this.

Qi Zheng is right, and even if he lays out cold chain logistics, whether he can achieve a loss rate like Jiagu is also a problem.

Qi Zheng added another fire: "In terms of cold chain technology, refrigerated trucks, logistics intelligent hardware equipment, cold chain storage technology and other related technologies are still maturing, which is the basis for Jiagu to establish a modern circulation system for agricultural products. And this process will be accelerated. ”

"To tell you the truth, Jiagu Trading is building cold storage at sites across the country. In the next ten years, Jiagu system similar to this class A cold storage, the layout of the country will not be less than 20, our goal, is to cover the cold chain logistics network throughout the country. ”

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua were speechless one after another, and when they heard it, they felt that Qi Zheng was suspected of bragging, but from what they saw in front of them, Jiagu obviously had such strength.

To put it mildly, Jiagu alone relies on this cold chain logistics network that has begun to take shape, if it is willing to open to third parties, some are partners who come to the door.

Qi Zheng looked at the expressions of the two of them, smiled, and said lightly, "Frankly speaking, to build a cold chain logistics network covering the whole country, even Jiagu Group has to pay a great price. ”

"However, I think it's worth it. ”

"From a big point of view, the cold chain reduces the loss of perishable food, which is essentially a saving of land resources. In terms of the composition of cultivated land, 15 percent of China's cultivated land is currently grown with vegetables or fruits, and it is estimated that by 2025, about 13 percent of all cultivated land in China will be grown with perishable food. Assuming that the domestic perishable food waste rate drops to 5, even according to the current arable land allocation ratio, that is, 15% of the arable land is cultivated with perishable food, then it is equivalent to saving the country more than 90 million mu of arable land every year. ”

"As we all know, in recent years, domestic food safety has occurred frequently, and a cold chain on the tip of the tongue can also effectively prevent food deterioration and ensure food quality ......"

"Those who do agriculture often talk about feelings. said too much, which made the two of them laugh. Qi Zheng laughed to himself.

Zhang Xuansong and Pan Hua were slightly moved, feeling that the two sides were not on the same level.

In fact, Qi Zheng still has a little bit to say, to the future to completely enter the era of e-commerce, when the e-commerce aimed at the fresh market, the Jiagu system, which holds a complete cold chain logistics network, can be attacked, retreated and defended, is already invincible.

After talking about interests, they talked about their feelings, and their hearts were moved.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Qi Zheng continued to invite, "The two of you may know that Jiagu's main focus is on grain production and operation, but in fact, we have also increased investment in the field of fruits and vegetables, let's go, the next stop is Jiagu's first fruit base." ”

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