Logistics is the "blood vessels" of the real economy, connecting production and consumption, and occupying an important position in the modern industrial system. Effectively lowering social logistics costs is an important measure to enhance the core competitiveness of industries and improve economic efficiency. Starting from the cognitive analysis of social logistics costs, this paper analyzes the differences and connections between logistics costs and social logistics costs, as well as between social logistics total costs and GDP ratio. Based on the current industrial structure, transportation structure characteristics, and logistics industry development level in Guizhou, this paper proposes that in the short term, to achieve lower logistics rates, one can take the following approaches: cultivating demonstration projects, adjusting transportation structure, developing hub economy, and promoting supply-demand matching, to solve the problems encountered in the transition from road to rail and road to water transportation, thereby achieving the optimization of transportation structure and the development of multimodal transportation, to effectively lower the social logistics costs in Guizhou Province.

Zhengxie Li, Shihua Zuo. Research on Countermeasures to Promote the “Road-to-Rail” and “Road-to-Water” Shifts of Goods Transportation in Guizhou Province from the Perspective of Effectively Reducing the Overall Logistics Costs of Society. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2024) Vol. 6, Issue 11: 144-151. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2024.061121.

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