AI adoption in China's logistics sector tops 37 percent, with YTO running more than 100 agents

AI adoption across China's logistics and supply chain industry has exceeded 37 percent, according to the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, as reported by China Daily. Adoption is highest in transport operations at 78 percent, followed by safety and compliance at 52.73 percent and smart warehousing at 47.27 percent. Courier company YTO Express said it runs more than 100 intelligent agents for route optimization, dispatch analysis and customer service, alongside 28 digital employee systems; JD Logistics reported 99.9 percent tracking accuracy from robotic sorting arms in its sorting centers, and SF Express uses sales forecasting to position inventory closer to consumers.

The figures are the first aggregated adoption statistics for the sector — association survey data rather than a single vendor's claims — and they show AI agents operating at mass scale in a market whose operating profile (high volume, thin margins, difficult last-mile) closely resembles Southeast Asia's. Regional operators tend to emulate Chinese operational standards within one to three years, making the per-domain breakdown a useful reference for where deployment starts first. The figures come from media interviews rather than a published federation report, so the methodology has not been disclosed.