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In this paper, withthe rapid development of logistics industry, Ianalyzethe relevant research at home and abroad. Construct the logistics statistics index system in the way of statistics to describe the development statusof China's logistics industry.Define specific index to the practical application of index system. Keywords—construct,logistics industry,logistics statistics, index system I. BACKGROUNDandSIGNIFICANCE Modern logistics has become the leading industry of the economic development, which occupy an important position in measuring the comprehensive competitiveness of a region. As a“third profit source”, logistics industry plays an important role of stimulating consumption and absorbing employment, which makes great contribution to the national economy. More importantly, logistics industry has a broad development space which generates an important opportunity for development to developing countries. In recent years, China's logistics industry develop rapidly and show a vigorous vitality. But due to a later start, it„sstill in the initial stage compared with developed countries. Especially data of logistics statistics in our country is still not systematic and comprehensive, leading to the problem of low efficiency, high operation cost, unstandardizedcompetition and incomprehensive management in the actual operation link. Data of logistics statistics is an important basis to describe the development status of logistics industry and formulate relevant policies, which guides development of logistics industry. Without a set of complete logistics statistical data, there will be a problem in supervising and planningby the administrative department andcommunicating andcoordinatingbetweenunits and enterprises. That seriously inhibits the developing speed of logistics industry [1]. Therefore, the construction of logistics statistical index system of our country, providing a uniform standard oflogisticsstatistics to accelerate the formation of China's logistics database, is the urgent problem to be solved. II. RESEARCH SUMMARIES In recent years, to measure of logistics industry‟s development level, more and more research institutes and scholars make in-depth research on it and get some preliminary results. Internationally,the Transport Policy White Paper issued by British governmentput forward a series of statistical indexes. It was designed to ease the problems of traffic congestion and air pollution. USA determined the statistical indexesaccording to the transport system and business logistics respectively.The former one is committed to traffic safety and government surveillance, the latter one mainly serve to corporate and government decision-making. The Japanese government's Integrated Logistics Policy Framework proposed nine quantitative indicators to examine the effect of logistics reform, and built an analytical frameworkaimed at environmental protection, traffic safety and other social issues. Australia's social logistics evaluation framework is acomprehensive evaluation system with a goal-oriented classified method, which is verydirect and effective. In China, Wang Wanwei tried to construct the statistics index system of logistics enterprises firstly, but stopped at the basic framework and the logic structure without specific indexes. The framework of logistics statistics system constructed by LiuKaiming included five aspects: the scale of logistics, the process of logistics activities, labor productivity and labor remuneration, fixed assets and the economic SSRG International Journal of Economics and Management Studies (SSRG-IJEMS) – volume2 issue5 Sep to Oct 2015 ISSN: 2393 9125 www.internationaljournalssrg.org Page 12 benefits of logistics. The index system constructed by Sun Minwei and Shao Jianli in 2004 wasaccountedin three dimensions of the third party logistics enterprises, national economy logistics and green logistics [2]. In 2006, Li Weidong put forward the total social logistics system with more completeentried dimension, which reflected the development situation of logistics industrymore comprehensively. In 2014, index system constructed byShen Si was consideredthe system should be able to measure the logistics industry‟s situation of input-output, industrial scale, specialized technology and equipment, economic benefit and logistics enterprises especially thethird-party logistics enterprisesimultaneously. Through the domestic and foreign research results, we can sum up their commonalities.Foreign index systemspay attention to quantization, and emphasis onenvironmental protection and traffic safety. Chinese index systemsmostly stop at qualitative analysis, whichjust describe the development situation but don‟t reflect existing problems. Put forward the logistics statistics index systembase on that. III. CONSTRUCTION of INDEX SYSTEM A. Construction Principle Logistics statistics index system should meet theall aspects‟ needs for information of logistics statistics, so as to monitoring and reflecting the panorama of the development of logistics industry. The design process should abide by the following principles. 1)Combined with the Comprehensiveness and Logicality:In order to docking with the national economic accounting, index system should not only reflect the contribution of the logistics industry to national economy, but also meter the running situation of logistics activities‟ various sectors. At the same time, the internal structure of index system should comply with the logic instead of pursuing of large system blindly.The index system should has clear levels and reduce the relevance among indexes. 2)Comparability:This may include two aspects. One is aligning with foreign logisticsstatistics. The research of foreign logistics statistics is more mature, we should learn their design ideas, statistical methods and calculating methods. This is also conducive to the comparing the logistics industry‟s development situationbetween China and foreign country. The other one is to the aim of regional horizontal and vertical comparison among logistics level [3]. Horizontal comparison can find the gap, while the longitudinal comparison is aimed to development. 3) Operability:The significance of constructing index system isapplication. To realize the operability of index system, on the one hand, we shoulddefine the connotation and calculation formula of specific indexes, on the other hand, Chinese research on accounting ofstatistics logisticsis still at the starting stage with limited available data. At the same time, if there is too much data obtainedby special survey, the reliability ofcalculated resultsis also difficult to guarantee. Therefore,we should use existing dataas far as possible and select the quantifiable,data-available index. 4)Development:Logistics industry in China is developing rapidly.Accordingly,measurement ofits development statusshould be improved and adjusted constantly. Inheritance and innovation based on the existing research results and statistical data, revisingand supplement in practical application, is the only route toconstructthe logistics statistics index system.