The Research On The Food Consumption And It's Logistics Safeguard Of Urban Residents In China

Consumption is an eternal theme of economic research, and food consumption is the basic requirement of people. The food consumption of Chinese urban residents is gradually changing with the income increasing at present. This is not only registering as the increase of consumption quantity, more importantly, fundamental changes should be taken place in the consumption quality, consumption levels, consumption concept, and consumption patterns. So it is certain to set higher requirements for food quality, food hygiene and food lead time. The core guarantee factors of food quality, food hygiene and food lead time is food logistics. So improve the management level, technical level and logistics efficiency of food logistics is the key factor to enhance the level of food consumption in China.As a specialized logistic industry, food logistics is closely related to food quality, food safety, and food cost. But food logistics industry in China is still at the infancy stage, this is not only difficult to meet the escalating food consumption demand of urban residents, but also caused a lot of hidden dangers of food security. At the same time, the State Council promulgated <the restructuring and revitalization plan of logistics industry> in 2009; the problem of food logistics industry has showed in front of people again. Building a modern logistics platform for food industry, improving the quality of food logistics and providing security logistics safeguard for escalating food demand is an important task for China's food logistics industry.The rapid development in the quantity, quality and structure of household food consumption put severe challenge to China's food logistics and the logistics safeguard sparked the in-depth reflection on the relationship between food consumption and logistics. This prompted us to explore the manifestation of the correlation mechanism between food consumption and logistics, dialyses some associated mechanism, and explore suggestions to promoting logistics development and enhance food consumption level of urban residents. So it forms the theme of the paper.Although academics have conducted some research in this field, there are still many shortcomings. This is not only manifested in the unitary of research paradigm and the lack of research perspective, more important is the studies have not formation systems research. Therefore, to study the food consumption and its logistics safeguard is not only the need for solving practical problems, but also the need for develop and intensify theoretical research of consumer economy, circulation economy and transportation economy. These provide both theoretical and practical significance to the discussion of this topic.The paper study around the topic that the change of food consumption bring about the development of logistics, and the development of logistics to further satisfy the food consumption especially it's quality demand of residents, so as to realize the joint development of food consumption and food logistics. The basic idea is:Focusing on the correlation mechanism between food consumption and food logistics based on the general analysis of the joint development history of food consumption and logistics, then empirical tests the relationship between them; Generalize the present condition of food consumption of China urban residents and forecast their development trend, then analysis the logistics needs that cause by food consumption of urban residents and find out the shortcomings of Chinese food logistics; identifies problems on the basis of case analysis in order to recommend relevant countermeasures to promotion the joint development of food consumption and food logistics industry of Chinese urban residents.Around the basic idea, based on the joint development trend of food consumption and logistics, the paper emphasize explains the correlation mechanism between food consumption and food logistics. In theory, there are complex relationships between them:Food consumption is an important decisive factor of food logistics industry, constitute the external motivation in logistics industry development. At the same time, the development of the logistics industry play a guiding role in the upgrading of urban residents'food consumption structure, which restricts the degree of realization and benefit of urban residents' food consumption. From the econometric perspective, the granger-causality test results also confirm the two-way causality between the food consumption of urban residents and the development of logistics, which verify the conclusions of the theoretical analysis. From the perspective of quantitative analysis, the paper constructed logistic model, and confirmed the development of the logistics industry is an important driving force in urban residents'food consumption growth, and find that the driving force has not been fully brought into play, develop logistics industry to stimulate food consumption of urban residents will receive a significant effect.Based on the needs to study the development of food logistics that to come with the tide of food consumption level changes of urban residents, the paper using shift-share method to analyze the present condition of urban residents'food consumption, points out that the total number food consumption of Chinese urban residents is increasing rapidly, and the consumption structure of local residents is improving steadily. The nutritional food consumption pattern has taken shape. However, the food consumption of urban residents is still having a large development space; it will present diversity and personalized trends in the future. The safety awareness, nutrition awareness, health awareness and environmental awareness of food consumption will more and more attracted people's attention, and the new convenience food will gradually dominate the food market. This will bring an important reform to food consumption. But the food logistics industry of china is still at the infancy stage. In our country, food logistics industry exist a series of disadvantages in the software and hardware construction, logistics technology, logistics services format, logistics services efficiency and so on, which resulted serious loss in food logistics process, and brought great losses to the food industry development. This is also a barrier that lies in the way of Chinese urban residents'food consumption upgrade.In the basis of theory and empirical analysis, the paper gives the case of modern logistics safeguard food consumption level. It supports the analysis results of the foregoing through the quality and safety control case of organic rabbit.It could be concluded that the he lagging of China's modern logistics industry, especially the lagging of the food logistics industry seriously restrict the development of urban residents' food consumption. Therefore, we must seize the opportunity that the promulgated of <the restructuring and revitalization plan of logistics industry>; promoting the joint development of urban residents' food consumption and logistics industry. It's very important to speed up China's industrial restructuring, promote the improvement of urban residents' living standards, expand domestic demand, and spur economic growth as well as to build a socialist harmonious society. The author believe that nowadays what we could do is taking related measurements and proposition such as:Increasing income expectations to improve the ability and level of residents' food consumption; Strengthening policy support to promoting food logistics development; Developing food logistics around the center of enhance the level of food consumption; Constructing China's food logistics supply chain strategy; to ensure the quality and safely of the food consumption based on the food cold chain logistics; And we can also develop deep processing of agricultural products to extend the industrial chain and promote the economic development.The innovation of this paper may include:The topic has highly actuality, forward-looking and countermeasures, it's an innovation too. There are some scattered results in the research of food consumption and its logistics safeguard, but there is no systematic theory and practice study on this topic. What's more, the suggestions of the paper are operable and replicable.The paper explains the correlation mechanism between food consumption and food logistics. Restrictions on many factors, there is only a small amount of theoretical analysis and lack empirical analysis on this area.In the basis of theory analysis and empirical analysis onf the two-way causality between the food consumption of urban residents and the development of logistics, this paper creatively constructed logistic model, quantitatively analyse the level that logistics industry impact on food consumption and find that the driving force has not been fully brought into play. This is one innovation of the paper.The paper applies the shift-share method to analyse the status and development trend of urban residents'food consumption. At present, the analysie on urban residents'food consumption level are all experience analysis and lack of quantitative analysis.This paper use shift-share method to quantitatively analyse urban residents'food consumption level, dialysis its development trend. It opens a new perspective.