On 26 May, Tam Yiu-chung — Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Coalition; member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress; and Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress — led the Hong Kong “Western Land-Sea Trade Route” delegation on a study visit to the Yuhu Cold Chain (Chengdu) Trading Centre. The delegation made an in-depth tour of the facility, inspecting the automated high-specification cold storage facility, the smart warehouse management system, and the trading centre, before engaging in substantive discussions with the Yuhu Cold Chain team.
Tam Yiu-chung commended Yuhu Group Hong Kong highly for its business model, development efficiency, and strategic layout in the Yuhu Cold Chain project, and gave particular praise to the Group’s patriotic commitment to investing in essential infrastructure on the mainland. The enterprise’s guiding principle of “Hong Kong standards, mainland practice” — and its leadership in taking the industry into international markets — offers valuable lessons and reference. Food safety is a matter of utmost importance; Yuhu Cold Chain has built an integrated end-to-end service system encompassing traceability, transportation, warehousing, and customs clearance. He expressed hope that the platform would serve as a showcase and a bridge, attracting and encouraging more Hong Kong-funded enterprises and companies to enter the mainland’s cold chain and food ingredients sector, working together towards shared development.
The delegation also included: Cheung Chi-kong, President of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute (OCTS) and member of the National Committee of the CPPCC; Chow Chun-ling, Special Trustee of OCTS, Chairperson of Wing On International Investment Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong), and member of the National Committee of the CPPCC; Wong Ping-fan, Director-General of the Hong Kong Coalition and Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress; as well as senior executives from MTR Corporation, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (HACTL), Airport Authority Hong Kong, Cathay Cargo, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), together with a number of experts from the One Country Two Systems Research Institute.
Jiang Wensheng, Director of Yuhu Group Hong Kong and Chairman of Yuhu Cold Chain (Sichuan), first conveyed the greetings of Huang Xiangmo, Chairman of Yuhu Group Hong Kong and founder of Yuhu Cold Chain. He then presented a detailed overview of the Yuhu Cold Chain Greater China Strategy and its nationwide expansion, highlighting: committing substantial capital to capital-intensive physical infrastructure and practising long-termism; building an Online-Merge-Offline (OMO) business model to deliver end-to-end services; and actively integrating into the national grand strategy while contributing to the development of international standards — advancing the “Hong Kong Approach” to become “China Practice,” and further, to “World Standards.”
During the discussion, Jiang Wensheng noted that Hong Kong has extensive experience in agricultural product quality control and food supply assurance for mega-cities. Drawing on the substantial scale of Yuhu Cold Chain’s trading centre cluster across Greater China, the platform can better promote Hong Kong’s food safety expertise to the mainland, support the quality upgrading of mainland agricultural products, and facilitate their entry into the Greater Bay Area, supply to Hong Kong, and expansion into overseas markets. At the same time, with Hong Kong serving as a global financial hub, the Yuhu Cold Chain platform can also empower the dual domestic-international circulation of Chinese agricultural products at the capital and financing level — while finding new high-quality development space in this vast market.
According to the official WeChat account of the Sichuan People’s Congress, on 26 May Wang Yanfei, Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee, met with the Hong Kong “Western Land-Sea Trade Route” delegation in Chengdu. Wang Yanfei noted that Tam Yiu-chung had led a delegation of elite representatives from Hong Kong’s shipping, logistics, trade, and infrastructure sectors on a study visit to Sichuan — fully demonstrating the high importance placed, and the keen expectations held, by Hong Kong communities for deepening practical Sichuan–Hong Kong cooperation and jointly seizing development opportunities. He expressed hope that Sichuan and Hong Kong would collaborate to build and share the New Corridor, jointly promote unobstructed internal and external circulation, deepen economic, trade, and industrial coordination, strengthen the exchange of governance experience, comprehensively enhance the effectiveness of open cooperation, and collectively serve the overall national development agenda — together writing a new chapter of coordinated, win-win progress between Sichuan and Hong Kong. Zhang Tao, Director of the Sichuan Provincial Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office; Wang Bo, Deputy Director of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee’s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Working Committee; and
relevant provincial officials also attended the meeting.
As an important Hong Kong-funded enterprise with deep roots in western China, the Yuhu Cold Chain (Chengdu) Trading Centre has received strong attention from both the HKSAR Government and mainland authorities.
