围绕国家“大力发展现代物流业”的方针，为促进地方经济社会建设，加快城市物流业结构调整、产业升级、协作交流，中国交通运输协会联合全国41个城市牵头发起“中国交通运输协会城市物流分会”。

2012年11月27日，中国交通运输协会城市物流分会在武汉正式成立，并发布了志在解决城市物流发展八大问题的《武汉宣言》。六年来，共举办中国城市物流大会六届；组织物流万里行活动66场，其中国内城市55场，国外城市10场；开展中华物流大讲堂讲座15场。同时，连续多年成功组织承办的“中国国际物流节”、“博鳌国际物流论坛”、“中国国际跨境电商物流大会”等知名品牌活动，累计引入投资超过500亿元人民币，为20多个城市会员成功引荐了数以百计的知名企业入驻。目前，城市会员103个。

分会已逐步建成物流信息化、物流投融资、物流园区、大宗物流、中欧货运、跨境电商、物流指数、航空物流八个推进工作，将具体工作落到实处。此外，分会还与国内知名物流专家、机构、院所合作，组建了机制灵活、参与面广的“城市物流研究中心”，向城市提供决策支持、规划设计、运营管理等相关咨询与研究服务。

中国交通运输协会城市物流分会，旨在促进城市间物流协作与沟通，协助物流企业招商引资，推动物流产业网络化和规模化，实现物流业态转型升级、科学发展。秉承“求真务实”的工作宗旨，中国交通运输协会城市物流分会在加强自身建设同时，大力发挥平台资源优势，全面提升联盟城市物流业的整体竞争力，实现物流经济发展一体化。物流推动城市发展，中国交通运输协会城市物流分会已成为名副其实的重要推手。

Urban Logistics Union of China was officially founded in Wuhan on November 27th, 2012, by China Communications and Transportation Association with supports from 41 Chinese cities, and Wuhan Declaration was issued in order to promote the development of urban logistics. At present, the Union has more than 100 member cities, and has became one of the important associations in China’s logistics industry.

In the past 6 years, the Union has built China Urban Logistics Research Center and professional promotion committees, organized large activities such as China International Logistics Festival, Boao International Logistics Forum and other large-scale events, convened China City Logistics Conference, Cross-border E-commerce Logistics Conference, set up Long Journey of Chinese Logistics and China Logistics Lecture and etc. Through above these works, the Union has offered practical help to the member cities on logistics industry planning, logistics project investment, logistics information construction, logistics talents training and communication between member cities. While expanding the service scope and actively practising the Declaration, the Union has been improved and developed.

At present, the Union has gradually established 10 promotion committees, which are in charge of China-Europe freight, logistics investment and financing, logistics park construction, bulk logistics, cross-border e-logistics, logistics index, aviation logistics, new retail, talents team construction and multimodal transport respectively, in a bid to have specific tasks fulfilled effectively. And it has visited Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guiyang, Kunming, Zhengzhou, Haikou, etc. totally 53 cities, and invested about 50 billion yuan for the logistics projects of member cities. In terms of international exchanges, foreign cities such as Duisburg (Germany) are intending to join ULUC, which will lead a new journey of international cooperation for member cities and concerned and welcomed by cities.