CHINA'S cold chain logistics sector posted robust growth in 2024, with surging demand for transport vehicles, and busy air and railway activity, and market insiders said that the growth was closely related to the nation's increasing consumption vitality.

China's demand for cold chain logistics in 2024 reached 365 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.3 percent, the Global Times learned from the Cold Chain Logistics Committee of the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing on Monday. Sales of new energy refrigerated vehicles reached 21,368 units in 2024, up by 350.8 percent year on year.