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The First Safety Operation Specifications for Internet Freight Platform Organizational Standards Released Officially

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FOR-U Smart Freight 2022-01-05 19:16

Recently, the China Communications and Transportation Association officially released the Safety Operation Specifications for Internet Freight Platform Organizational Standards, which lays out the general requirements for strengthening the role of Internet freight platforms, strengthening safety operations management, and establishing a sound safety production management system. As one of the leading members of the association, FOR-U Smart Freight participated in the drafting of the standards.

The Safety Operation Specifications of Internet Freight Platforms (hereinafter referred to as "Organizational Standards") – the first domestic industry safety operations organizational standards – will come into effect officially from March 1, 2022.

The Organizational Standards specify the general requirements for the safe operation of internet freight platforms, including platform safety features, driver and vehicle approval, driver safety management, safe operation, risk management and hidden hazard detection, emergency response and handling, network and information security management, complaint handling for safety incidents, performance evaluation and improvement, and more.

Among them, in the platform safety features section, the Organizational Standards outlines that Internet freight platforms should have mobile phone number protection, abnormal stoppage identification and warning, path deviation identification and warning, abnormal driving detection, fatigued driving identification and warning, and other safety features.

In addition, the Standards have a clear approval requirement for drivers and vehicles, demanding platforms require drivers upload their ID card, driver's license, and qualification certificate, and to conduct a strict examination of the vehicle's motor vehicle license and road transport license.

In September last year, FOR-U Smart Freight started the FOR-U Transportation Safety Month event to strengthen and regulate its operations. Regarding user information verification, FOR-U Smart Freight has put in place authentic name and real person verification for shippers and "five certificate verification" for carriers. Users can only release or carry cargo after their information has been verified and approved. By upgrading the OCR intelligent identification system, the platform will automatically identify the document validity and issue warnings and replacement reminders to users before their documents expire.

As a special supporter of the Xinjiang Road Transport Association, FOR-U Smart Freight partnered with the association to kick off the “Xinjiang Truck Driver Safety Knowledge Labor Skills Online Contest.” This truck driving safety knowledge contest was held among 300,000 truck drivers in Xinjiang to improve their safety awareness, driving skills, and emergency handling ability.

Yan Chao, the platform business head of FOR-U Smart Freight who participated in drafting the Organizational Standards, believes that the standards outline more standardized safety constraints for the freight industry and introduces more stringent requirements, which will help the industry develop in a healthy and high-quality manner.

Following the Organizational Standards, FOR-U Smart Freight will strengthen its platform management function, improve the user registration and approval mechanism and access conditions, strengthen driver safety knowledge training, implement a driver safety protection system and a risk investigation system, improve its cyber security management and emergency handling capabilities, and continuously improve safety in the freight sector.

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Shan Dandan and other female entrepreneurs are taking actions for the goal that “Chinese working mothers no longer have to choose between a career and a family.”

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FOR-U Smart Freight, Mulan Club, China Entrepreneur

03/09/2022 10:00

Source: Mulan Club, China Entrepreneur

During the Two Sessions (NPC and CPPCC) this year, many of the proposals made by the delegates were related to women. Among them, the balance between a woman's career and her fertility was a particular focus. Behind these proposals and calls for greater women’s rights to a career lay a widespread prejudice and collective anxiety.

Relative to men, the job market is hostile to women, whose career span is easily interrupted. They are seen as a burden and a poor investment by their employers. Behind these hidden troubles in the job market are the repeated struggles of women forced to choose between a family or career, having a baby or getting a promotion. These are the choices that working women have to make in real life.

Why should women sacrifice either?

This year, on March 8, International Women's Day, the Mulan Club, a Chinese association for entrepreneurs, organized for 30 female entrepreneur committee members to jointly launch an initiative, calling for the construction of a "female staff-friendly enterprise" and advocating more powers to help women maintain a balance between motherhood and employment to create a female-run fertility-friendly workplace.

In August 2021, the State Council issued the 14th Five-Year Plan for Employment Promotion, proposing that an understanding of women and maternity is an important aspect of employers' social responsibility, and to encourage employers to provide employees with enough leave time and work processes.

Back in 1857, 165 years ago, an economic crisis crippled the world economy. The sluggish and chaotic economic environment caused poor working conditions and low wages to exacerbate. As a result, female workers in the garment and textile industry in New York City took to the streets to protest. For the next few years, similar protest marches took place almost every year on March 8.

This is the seed that was originally planted on International Women's Day – protesting and speaking out against harsh occupational predicaments. More than a hundred years later, the career environment and prospects for women are still plagued by inequity.

To give working women more courage to choose the life they want and maintain a better balance between their career and family, and to build a better, more equal society, female entrepreneurs have put forward the following proposals:

§ Ensure that female employees have access to maternity leave and maternity incentive leave.

§ Guarantee that breast-feeding time for new mothers will not be deducted from regular work hours.

§ The salaries and welfare for female employees during their lactation period shall not be reduced.

§ No dismissals or terminations of labor (employment) contracts due to female employees’ maternity.

§ Allow new mothers to adopt flexible working methods such as working from home.

§ Enhance emotional care for employees who have just given birth.

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To create a female maternity-friendly working environment, we must take action.

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FOR-U Smart Freight x OSRAM for Earth Hour – Save a Light for Those on the Road

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FOR-U Smart Freight 2022-03-25 18:11

Shush.

Turn off the lights.

The Earth witnessed an hour of darkness today.

It was an hour for us to return to essentials.

At that moment, we all shared the same responsibility.

Yet, there are always lights in the distance, dim like neon signs.

Lights that shine bright at night to safeguard the brighter side of living.

They are lit by the truck drivers, on the road

from night until dawn or day until starry night.

Carrying the light, the trucks keep moving.

They usher in the light of the future.

They are called “nomads on wheels,” their vehicles their homes.

They travel along freeways until they reach their destination, brightening city life for all.

They guard the light of hope.

They are “the invisible” of our times, though they are the bravest souls.

They rush fearlessly to the front line of the pandemic, protecting us with the purest of hearts.

They ignite the light of life.

They are honest and hard-working, yet may be regarded as being marginalized in our society.

Even though their professional honor may sometimes be overlooked, they still have our every respect.

We Care for the “Light of the Road”

In China, there are 20 million truck drivers,

hauling nearly 80% of the country’s total logistics and transportation freight volume.

They are the main force of the road transport industry.

These “lights on the road” are those who bring us hope

and light up our road to happiness.

To thank our guardians who toil day and night.

We saved a light for the those on the road.

FOR-U Smart Freight has partnered with OSRAM

to give 60 sets of OSRAM 24V LED truck lights to truck drivers.

Five sets will be given out via the FOR-U Smart Freight official WeChat Public and Weibo channels.

and 50 sets on the FOR-U Smart Freight driver app.

The first five readers who comment and like this article will receive special gifts.

Click "Read the original article" to join in the activity.

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FOR-U Smart Freight Named on Global Unicorn Index 2021 by Hurun Research Institute

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On December 20, the Hurun Research Institute released its Global Unicorn Index 2021, a list of unlisted companies founded after 2000 that are now worth more than $1 billion. Ranked on the list was FOR-U Smart Freight, the only road freight platform from mainland China to make the list, the fourth time that FOR-U Smart Freight has been selected on unicorn-related lists this year.

Publicly available information shows that Hurun Research Institute has been tracking Chinese unicorns since 2017 and global unicorns since 2019, and that this is the third time that the institute has released a global unicorn index.

According to the index, there are 1,058 unicorns in 42 countries and 221 cities worldwide. In China, there are 301 unicorns, 74 more than last year. The total value of unicorns listed on the index is RMB 23.7 trillion, or equivalent to the GDP of Germany. Bytedance, Ant Group, and SpaceX were named the top three unicorns in the world.

According to the index, the top five industries most disrupted by unicorns are corporate management, financial services, retail, healthcare, and logistics. Unicorns in the logistics industry account for 4.4% of global unicorns in 2021, an increase in ranking from last year.

Over the past few years, the logistics industry has attracted a large number of innovators with technology and capital, but very few companies have achieved real market success. Those that have are starting to see a payback period. According to research from Accenture into Chinese unicorns this year, in terms of average valuation, unicorns in the logistics and transportation sector are leading the way.

Among the top 10 new global unicorns on the list, companies from the logistics and express delivery sector occupy four places, making it the most noteworthy sector for new unicorns.

There are 31 companies from the logistics industry on the index, 14 of which are from China—including FOR-U Smart Freight, Didi Freight, and Shunfeng Express—as well as six other domestic logistics companies. FOR-U Smart Freight is the only road freight platform from mainland China in the Global Unicorn Index 2021.

Rupert Hoogewerf, the Chairman and chief researcher of the Hurun Report, has stated that, “The Global Unicorn Index aims to find the world's most successful startups. These companies are leading the next generation of disruptive technologies and attracting the world's best young talent.”

Fuyoukache has built a smart logistics system with big data and AI technology at its core, realizing the standardized and intelligent operation of each transaction link, from inquiry to settlement, and has built high-quality service standards in the fragmented and non-standardized road freight market.

At present, FOR-U Smart Freight is the first platform to apply AI technology to the truck-load transport trading market, and the only platform in the industry that has achieved second-level pricing for long-distance truck-load freight.

In 2021, FOR-U Smart Freight was selected as a unicorn on four lists by virtue of its innovative value in technology-enabled road freight, as well as the sustainability of its potential growth from new business models and the outstanding contributions it has made in new technologies and forms of service.

In April this year, FOR-U Smart Freight was selected in the China Unicorn Enterprise Research Report 2021, released by Great Wall Strategic Consulting; in June, the 2021 Nanjing Unicorn and Gazelle Enterprise Development White Paper was released, with FOR-U Smart Freight selected as a unicorn; in December, 36 krypton Research Institute released its 2021 China Unicorn Enterprise Development Research Report, listing FOR-U Smart Freight again; while in the same month, FOR-U Smart Freight was included in the Global Unicorn Index 2021, released by the Hurun Research Institute.

In addition to releasing this Index, the Hurun Research Institute also released its 2021 Global Top 100 Unicorn Investment Institutions, as well as its 2021 China Top 30 Unicorn Investment Institutions. Among them, FOR-U Smart Freight’s institutional shareholders— including Matrix Partners China, Legend Capital, and Eastern Bell Capital—were all selected on the 2021 China Top 30 Unicorn Investment Institutions report.

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FOR-U Smart Freight makes road transport smarter and simpler

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On December 10, the winners of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 China Awards (EOY 2021) were unveiled. Eleven Chinese entrepreneurs have won the EOY 2021 Awards, for their concerted efforts to establish new development paradigm, according to EY. Shan Dandan, founder and CEO of FOR-U Smart Freight, is the only female entrepreneur among the winners.

Since the 1980s, road transport in China has been one of the country’s essential means of land transportation and a fundamental industry for economic development. The industry has suffered, however, from problems such as lengthy and inefficient transaction process, Opaque pricing mechanism, and lack of service standards for shippers, while carriers are faced with issues such as widespread phony orders, frequently empty trips, and delayed payment. To solve the above problems, Shan Dandan founded Fuyoukache in 2015, and quickly became one of the few outstanding female entrepreneurs in the logistics industry.

Through an asset-lite, operations-driven model, FOR-U Smart Freight connects shippers and carriers nationwide. It uses a standardized operational system and has created its own one-of-a-kind "super cloud convoy". According to an industry report, FOR-U Smart Freight has become the largest technology-driven road freight platform in China by revenue in 2020.

"What we want to do is not build a simple intermediary platform but to use digital technology to build trust between unknown shippers and carriers, to achieve safe and efficient long-distance freight transport, while providing peace of mind to carriers, helping optimize their operations and earning more," Shan Dandan said.

As the industry's first platform to commercialize AI technology, FOR-U Smart Freight has built an intelligent logistics system with big data and AI technology to provide contract performance-related services covering the entire transport process, from inquiry and shipping to delivery and settlement.

The company has independently developed its ForU Brain intelligent platform, which has three major application systems: Smart Pricing, Smart Dispatching, and the Smart Service System. Through a massive amount of high quality data and algorithmic capabilities, it helps shippers and carriers reduce the cost of information and improve transaction efficiency, while decreased deadhead miles and boosting vehicle operational efficiency through its smart dispatching. In addition, the system's real-time road information further optimizes the transport service experience and improves freight safety.

In Shan Dandan’s view, the development of the long-distance freight industry can be divided into three stages: Stage 1.0 is about helping stakeholders in a transaction-address information mismatch via the Internet; 2.0 is about optimizing the supply chain through technology and algorithms; and 3.0 is about the evolution of productivity tools, such as using autonomous driving and new energy vehicles.

FOR-U Smart Freight is well-prepared for Stage 3.0. This year, its first pilot order of autonomous-driving trucks completed testing and were trialed on the Beijing-Shanghai route in May 2021. In July, FOR-U Smart Freight and its business partners were awarded the first commercial autonomous-driving road test licenses for the smart vehicle policy pilot zone in Beijing. Since then, For-U Smart Freight has embarked on an eager exploration of autonomous-driving in open road conditions and real-life road scenarios.

“FOR-U insists on doing the difficult-yet-correct thing. We hope to use technology to create value in the road transport industry, delivering a better transport experience for carriers and shippers and making road freight smarter and simpler,” Shan Dandan said.

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FOR-U Smart Freight Named on Global Unicorn Index 2021 by Hurun Research Institute

BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 20, the Hurun Research Institute released its Global Unicorn Index 2021, a list of unlisted companies founded after 2000 that are now worth more than $1 billion. Ranked on the list was FOR-U Smart Freight, the only road freight platform from mainland China to make the list, the fourth time that FOR-U Smart Freight has been selected on unicorn-related lists this year.