According to reports, on August 15th, the "Global Smart Container Industry Alliance" was established in Shenzhen and the first general meeting was held.

 Xia Kunshan, deputy director of the Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration, said that the alliance will build a smart container industry and ecological chain, promote the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industries with advanced standards, promote the development of advantageous traditional industries to the high end of the value chain, and promote the development of Shenzhen’s port transportation economy. The construction of the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Bay Area will have far-reaching significance.

The alliance is led by Shenzhen CIMC Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and is jointly with the National Container Standardization Technical Committee, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Transport Science and Technology, China Telecom Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., ZTE Corporation, and CIMC Container Holdings. Limited companies, Shenzhen Institute of Standards and Technology and other nearly 100 related government regulatory agencies, industrial applications, technology research and development, manufacturing, system operations and other business units voluntarily formed a non-corporate non-corporate legal entity.

Xia Kunshan pointed out that "At present, over 80% of the total value of goods in global trade is transported in containers. Containers have become the world's largest number of transport carriers. We hope that the Alliance will effectively organize industrial enterprises to formulate and promote community standards and promote groups. The transformation of standards into national and international standards will promote the port transportation industry in Shenzhen and even China to occupy a leading position in international competition and division of labor."

The so-called “smart container” uses multiple RFID products inside and outside the container, such as sensor seals, to collect information about the containers through these products, and transmits them to the data center through the intelligent system so that the staff can understand the position of the goods in a timely manner. Status and security conditions.

 As early as October 2015, the world’s first smart container was born. The smart container is equipped with an advanced data intelligent processing system capable of handling a large amount of data, including various data such as the container's transportation data, location, temperature, and humidity.