I. Location Empowerment: A Unique Synergistic Development Base
Gaobeidian City is located in the heart of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei triangle, 82 kilometers north of Beijing, 134 kilometers east of Tianjin, and borders the Xiongan New Area to the south. It is a core node city for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The "three horizontal and two vertical" transportation arteries, including the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Taipei Expressway, Beijing-Kunming Expressway, and Beijing-Xiongan Expressway, crisscross the area. The Jingbao Railway connects the east and west, forming a three-dimensional logistics network covering both railways and highways, enabling the efficient operation of the "One-Hour Fresh Agricultural Products Circulation Circle around Beijing", providing unparalleled transportation support for the trade and logistics industry.
As a key industrial platform jointly developed by Beijing and Hebei, Gaobeidian seized the opportunity of the relocation of non-capital functions from Beijing, precisely industries such as agricultural product wholesale, light manufacturing, and e-commerce live streaming, and promoted the transformation of industrial clusters from "receiving and relocating" to "independent cultivation and leading development", successfully ranking among the top tier of county-level characteristic industrial clusters in Hebei Province.
II. Cluster Rise: A Diversified Synergistic Industrial Development Pattern
The Gaobeidian trade and logistics industrial cluster is centered around agricultural product cold chain logistics, supported by light industrial product logistics, and supplemented by cross-border e-commerce logistics, forming a synergistic industrial ecosystem of three distinctive sectors. The core carriers include the Shouheng Gaobeidian International Agricultural Products Trading Center, the Baigou New Town Trade and Logistics Base, and the Gaobeidian Bonded Logistics Center (Type B), with the industrial scale and radiation capacity ranking among the top in the north.
(1) Agricultural Product Logistics: The Core of Northern "Vegetable Basket" Supply
The Shouheng Gaobeidian International Agricultural Products Trading Center (formerly the Beijing Xinfadi Gaobeidian Market) is the core engine of the cluster and a major public welfare project jointly built by Beijing and Hebei. Covering a total area of 2.4 million square meters, it officially started operation in 2015, fully the relocation of Beijing's wholesale industries such as fruits and vegetables, dry goods, grains and oils, and frozen products.
(2) Light Industry Logistics: A Hub for Small Commodities in the North
As an important part of Gaobeidian's commercial and logistics cluster, Baigou New Town is the largest base for the production and sales of luggage in the north. It has formed a complete industrial chain system covering "research and development design - production and manufacturing - wholesale logistics - e-commerce sales". Here, there are over 5,000 luggage enterprises, with an annual production of 1.2 billion pieces of luggage, accounting for one quarter of the national total. The regional brand value of "Baigou Luggage" has reached 18 billion yuan, and its products are exported to 199 countries and regions, with 2,553 types of export categories.
Relying on the foundation of the luggage industry, Baigou has built a "online + offline" integrated commercial and logistics network: offline, it has 14 large-scale specialized markets with an annual transaction volume of over 30 billion yuan; online, it has cultivated 7 major live-streaming bases, attracting 135 large e-commerce enterprises to settle in, with an average annual growth rate of e-commerce transaction volume of over 20%, creating the "No. 1 E-commerce City in the North" and achieving the goal of "buying and selling light industrial products across the country".
(3) Cross-border Logistics: An Important Window for Opening Up to the Outside World
Gaobeidian Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) is the only bonded functional platform in Baoding City. With a planned area of 0.047 square kilometers and a total warehouse area of 50,600 square meters, it passed the special acceptance inspection in April 2025 and provides bonded warehousing, international logistics distribution, cross-border trade, and supply chain finance services for the cluster.
III. Upgrading the Driving Force: Smart Innovation Drives High-quality Development
The Gaobeidian commercial and logistics cluster adheres to the principle of "technology empowerment and digital leadership", promoting the transformation of traditional commercial and logistics towards "smart, green, and efficient", and building a modern industrial system.
(1) Comprehensive Construction of a Smart Logistics System
The cluster vigorously promotes the intelligent transformation of logistics infrastructure. The Shouheng Market has established a big data dispatching center, a food safety traceability system, and an electronic settlement platform, achieving digital management of the entire process of agricultural product trading, warehousing, and logistics. Through the intelligent dispatching system and the coordination with the million-ton-level cold storage, it can achieve precise delivery within a radius of 100 kilometers within one hour. The smart cold chain logistics park adopts 5G, Internet of Things, and blockchain technologies to monitor the temperature and humidity of agricultural products in real time and trace the entire chain of information, ensuring food quality and safety. The Baigou New Town has built a smart warehousing center, introducing automated sorting equipment and AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) handling robots, which has increased the logistics sorting efficiency by more than 60%.
(II) Deep Integration of Industries is Promoted
Gaobeidian promotes the "commerce and logistics + " cross-border integration to cultivate new driving forces for industrial development: Commerce and logistics + manufacturing. Relying on the Shangheng Market and the Baigou Bag Industry, it attracts enterprises such as food processing and bag accessories to gather, forming a virtuous cycle of "logistics promoting manufacturing and manufacturing enhancing logistics" to solve the financing problems of small and medium-sized enterprises.
(III) Remarkable Achievements in Green and Low-Carbon Development
The cluster practices the green development concept and promotes carbon reduction and emission reduction in the logistics industry: Shangheng Market promotes electric forklifts and new energy delivery vehicles, builds photovoltaic parking lots and sewage treatment stations. In 2024, the unit logistics energy consumption decreased by 15%. The intelligent cold chain logistics park adopts carbon dioxide transcritical refrigeration technology, which is more than 30% more energy-efficient than traditional cold storage. Baigou New Town promotes green packaging and circular logistics models, reducing disposable packaging waste, and was awarded the "Hebei Province Green Logistics Demonstration Base".
IV. Remarkable Achievements: The Comprehensive Value and Honors of Cluster Development
After years of cultivation, the Gaobeidian Commerce and Logistics Cluster has become the core engine of regional economic growth, a model of coordinated development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and a benchmark for innovation in national commerce and logistics. Its comprehensive benefits continue to stand out.
(1) Outstanding Economic Contribution
In 2024, the added value of wholesale and retail in Gaobeidian City was 2.429 billion yuan, increasing by 8.2%; the added value of transportation, storage, and postal services was 1.414 billion yuan; the total social retail sales reached 10.263 billion yuan, increasing by 6.8%. The commerce and logistics cluster directly drove the output value of related industries to exceed 200 billion yuan, accounting for 45% of the city's GDP, becoming the "ballast stone" of Gaobeidian's economic development.
(2) Strong Support for People's Livelihood
As the core guarantee base for the "vegetable basket", "rice basket", and "fruit basket" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Shangheng Market supplies over 50,000 tons of agricultural products such as fruits, grains, and oils daily, effectively stabilizing prices and ensuring supply, especially playing a key role in emergency periods. At the same time, the cluster has driven over 200,000 jobs, with 120,000 of them being local jobs, with an average annual income of over 60,000 yuan, helping with rural revitalization and common prosperity.
(3) Rich Brand Honors
The Gaobeidian Commerce and Logistics Cluster has been awarded titles such as "Leader of County-level Characteristic Cluster" in Hebei Province, "Important Base for Modern Commerce and Logistics" in China, and "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Food Supply Base"; Shangheng Gaobeidian Market has ranked first in the China Agricultural Wholesale Market Top 100 for three consecutive years and was awarded the title of "National Agricultural Circulation Demonstration Park"; Baigou New Town has been awarded the titles of "China Bag Capital" and "China E-commerce Demonstration Base".
