On January 19, a group led by Prof. Jiang Biao, Vice President of CAS Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) visited the Humen Port Management Committee. The two parities had a discussion on the coming project named “The project of DongGuan Humen Port Intelligent Container Management System”. Liu Ning, the Deputy Secretary-general of municipal government of DongGuan and Director of Humen Port Management Committee, and Sun DianYi, the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Academy-locality Cooperation CAS, attended the meeting.

SARI will take the responsibility of designing and construction of the program of “The project of DongGuan Humen Port Intelligent Container Management System” while the project is funded by the East March Logistics Ltd. The total funding is 500 millionRMB, where the investment on intelligent management system will take more than 100 million RMB. The project is a direct application of the technology of IOT that integrates many advanced technologies such as RFID, wireless sensor, OCR, GIS, GPS. It will meet the information demand of enterprise and relevant departments through data sharing on the basis of a unified digital-based Logistics Information Platform to reduce human vulnerability and operational errors as well as prevent mismatch of cargo tanks. By applying real-time tracking on containers, it can not only meet the demand of current customers, but also improve the supervision of functional departments and assort the continuous development of port operation in the future.

Liu Ning listened to the designing and construction of the project and highly appreciated this program. He thought that such program was progressive and perfect. He believed that such project would form the largest domestic integrated platform of container yard and once the program was successfully implemented in Dongguan, it will be a bright spot of all the ports in the country. He also expressed that he was looking forward to enhance the communication with the CAS to form a closer strategic partnership.

Sun DianYi highly appreciated SARI’s report of the project. He asked SARI to work hard on the implementation of the designing and technology service of the project. He also wished that more and more technology would be settled at DongGuan to enhance the development of local economic.