The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently announced the 2025 list of key regions for developing national backbone agricultural cold chain logistics, with Wuhan’s Huangpi District named as the city’s only selected area. Yuhu Cold Chain (Wuhan) Trading Centre, as the lead development unit, is playing a crucial role in establishing the National Backbone Cold Chain Logistics Base in Huangpi.

This achievement adds to the centre’s growing national credentials, following its 2024 selection as a development unit for Wuhan’s “National Trade-Service Logistics Hub.” These consecutive national-level recognitions highlight Yuhu Cold Chain’s pivotal role in advancing cold chain infrastructure development in Central China.

As Yuhu Cold Chain’s flagship project in Central China, the Wuhan Trading Centre began operations in Huangpi District in December 2021, it commenced the first warehouse operations in May 2025, and officially opened on September 27. At full capacity, the centre is projected to handle 1 million tons of frozen products annually, generating over RMB 20 billion in yearly transaction value.

Yuhu Cold Chain (Wuhan) Trading Centre, the largest single cold chain trading centre in Central China, is positioned as an international cold chain food trading centre for the region. It has also been designated as one of Wuhan’s first “dual-use for normal and emergency” public infrastructure facilities and included in the Ministry of Commerce’s “Essential Goods Circulation and Supply Assurance System Development Project.” The centre spans approximately 20.8 hectares with a construction area of 277,000 square meters. It is equipped with eight cold storage facilities, offering a total storage capacity of approximately 214,000 tons and maintaining a full temperature range from -60°C to ambient temperature. This enables the centre to meet the storage requirements of high-end products such as tuna. Integrated with WMS (Warehouse Management System) and TMS (Transportation Management System), the centre ensures an unbroken cold chain and end-to-end traceability. It has also been certified as a First-Grade (Three-Star) Green Warehouse. In the future, Yuhu Cold Chain (Wuhan) Trading Centre plans to attract over a thousand food trading enterprises, establishing an international-standard base integrating warehousing, trading, and supply chain finance.

Leveraging its strategic location adjacent to Tianhe International Airport and Asia’s largest railway marshalling station, Yuhu Cold Chain (Wuhan) Trading Centre has established 16 logistics routes. These routes cover over 200 delivery points within Hubei Province and 104 points outside the province, while Wuhan’s urban distribution network extends to 165 sub-districts, forming a modern cold chain logistics system characterized by “comprehensive coverage within the province and strong outreach across Central China.”

At a recent press conference on “Closing the 14th Five-Year Plan and Charting the 15th”, the Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce emphasized that Yuhu Cold Chain has become a vital component of the province’s modern commercial circulation system. The government will continue to strengthen policy coordination to support the synergistic development of its Wuhan and Xiangyang trading centres, aggregating high-quality resources to build an efficient cold chain logistics ecosystem.

Yuhu Cold Chain (Wuhan) Trading Centre is poised to strengthen Wuhan’s role as a “Five-Type” National Logistics Hub by leveraging its OMO model to integrate global resources. The centre will diversify the Central China market with premium imported frozen products while facilitating the export of Hubei’s agricultural products worldwide. It aims to attract leading international food trading enterprises and introduce advanced cold chain technologies and supply chain services. This initiative will drive industrial upgrading, consolidate Wuhan’s position as a national commercial logistics center, establish a new benchmark for digital-intelligent transformation in Central China’s cold chain sector, and inject fresh momentum into the launch of the 15th Five-Year Plan period.