The amplitude has increased. 1955, the production headquarters was established. In order to improve the production efficiency in the circulation field and ensure the smooth operation and development of the economy, the group organized a large-scale investigation team headed by Izawa Daoxiong to visit the United States in the autumn of 1956. At that time, the word "logistics" did not exist in Japan, and the name of the delegation was "professional investigation team of circulation technology". During the delegation's stay in the United States, Mr. Kembas, a famous American professor, said that one of the reasons for the smooth development of the national economy in the United States in the past 30 years is that it attaches importance to both production efficiency and circulation efficiency. Meiye really realized the importance of logistics around 1950. Prior to this, it only paid attention to sales, and only regarded logistics activities such as transportation, storage, packaging and loading and unloading as auxiliary activities of sales. The investigation team of Japanese circulation technology also found in the United States that Japan was originally called the transportation and packaging activity of circulation technology, while Americans called it logistics (PD). After returning to China, the Japanese delegation proposed to the government to attach importance to logistics, and set off the PD Enlightenment in the industry. Established PD research institute in Japan Energy Association, and invited Mr. Naoki Hirahara, director of loading and unloading research institute and president of Japan Loading and Unloading Association, who is known as the "father of logistics" in Japan, as the president to hold PD seminars every month; In the Institute of Circulation Economics, Professor Lin Tuer, an authoritative Japanese logistics scholar, also organized a PD seminar and actively carried out various forms of enlightenment education activities. After eight years of efforts, the Japanese government finally began to pay attention to PD from 65438 to 0964. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry has invited Mr. Naoko Pingyuan to government agencies for many times to explain the importance of PD and give lectures to government officials. In July of the same year, when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry decided to discuss the logistics budget, it was worried that the news media said that the Japanese people could not understand PD, so it invited Mr. Naoki Pingyuan to discuss with Mr. 90,000 Uchiyama, the special director of Japan Express Co., Ltd. Uchiyama thought that the word "P" in PD meant "physical object" instead of "material" and distribution meant "circulation", so PD should be translated as "material circulation", but as a noun, "material" So the new word "circulation of things" was published in all Japanese media. Since then, "Logistics Link" has gradually become a household name in Japan, and everyone knows it.
In fact, the emergence of logistics activities began in primitive society, such as putting surplus products into caves, and from slave society, the privatization of products and the transportation of war materials are the so-called: the army went out to war, and food and grass came first, which is also the embodiment of logistics activities.
The word logistics only appeared in China in 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the word "logistics" is closely related to the visit of Japanese logistics friendly groups to China in the late 1970s. The word "logistics" was introduced into Japan from the United States in the mid-1950s. It was originally called "the circulation of things" in Japanese, and later referred to as "logistics".