The Global Supply Chain Promotion Report 2025, along with the global supply chain index matrix, was released on Wednesday during the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).
As the flagship publication of the event, the report reveals new trends in global supply chain cooperation."The report finds that technological innovation is playing an increasingly prominent role in driving global supply chains," said Zhao Ping, spokesperson for the CCPIT.
"Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence are rapidly evolving and maturing, while green and low-carbon technologies like carbon capture and storage are being promoted and applied at a faster pace.
These trends are propelling global supply chains into a new stage of digitalization and green development."The report provides a systematic overview of China's key practices and new opportunities in promoting global supply chain development.
China has continuously improved infrastructure connectivity, remained committed to high-level opening up, actively advanced global supply chain cooperation, fostered new quality productive forces suited to local conditions and enhanced financial services for global supply chains.
These efforts inject greater certainty into global supply chain cooperation amid an uncertain world.Over the past three years, the report has mapped the global supply chains of 17 key products – including drones, AR glasses, humanoid robots, hydropower, soybeans and wine – clearly illustrating the upstream, midstream and downstream distribution along each supply chain.The index matrix consists of four indices: the promotion index, connectivity index, innovation index and resilience index.
The innovation and resilience index were introduced for the first time at this year's CISCE.To more intuitively present the changing trends in the global supply chain from 2018 to 2024, the index matrix uses 2018 as the base period, setting the base index value at 1.
By 2024, the promotion index increased to 2.71, the connectivity index increased to 1.56, the innovation index increased to 2.16 and the resilience index increased to 1.22.Zhao noted that all four indices have shown improvement, indicating a positive overall development trend in global supply chains.
However, supply chain resilience remains relatively fragile, requiring joint efforts from all parties to enhance the development environment, connectivity and innovation capacity in order to truly strengthen global supply chain resilience.