China's total social logistics reached 214.5 trillion yuan in Jan–Jul, up 5.0% YoY. Logistics demand stayed stable with an improved structure. Industrial-goods logistics rose 5.3% YoY in Jan–Jul; traditional mining-related logistics was weak while manufacturing remained the growth engine. July manufacturing-related logistics demand rose 5.5% YoY, about 1pp faster than overall industrial-goods logistics. Equipment-manufacturing logistics jumped 12.3% YoY and high-tech manufacturing-related logist

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Hubei provincial government issued a 2026–2030 implementation plan to accelerate multimodal transport. The plan aims to, by 2030, upgrade about 30 provincial freight nodes, keep major ports’ rail entry rate at 100%, complete a Wuhan multimodal service centre and enable data interoperability across rail, inland waterways, road, air, warehousing and postal systems. It targets about 10% annual growth in port container rail‑water intermodal volumes and a single‑order rail‑water intermodal container share above 30%, while cultivating five intermodal operators/logistics integrators with cross‑regional connectivity and end‑to‑end control. The plan seeks to cut social logistics costs to roughly 12% of GDP and position Hubei as a national multimodal benchmark province.