The total output of logistics industry in China is still on the increase, but the ratio of logistics industry against total amount of GDP in China shows decreasing trend from 1991 to 1997. This kind's of situation has been caused by the comparatively higher growth rate of other manufacturing and service industries, comparing with that of logistics industry, in recent few decades. The logistics industry in China is also making a high contribution in absorbing the jobless into work, and also the scale of absorbing the jobless into work is continuously increasing. However, its ratio against the whole service industries is on the decrease. Both transportation volume and transportation volume/distance are increasing, but the growth rate of transportation volume/distance is much higher than that of transportation volume. This kind of situation might be caused by the speedy growth of long-distance transportation and international transportation in China. From the viewpoints of logistics industry structure, overland transportation commands a majority, recording 75.4% of all kinds of transportation businesses, but from the viewpoints of transportation volume/distance, water transportation stands first. In China, regional economic growth is in direct proportion to the growth of its logistics industry, but logistics efficiency is in inverse proportion to the degree of absorbing the jobless into work. Logistics industry in China belongs to the industry groups that make higher business efficiency and provide high level of wages to its employees. The environmental factors obstructing the development of logistics industry in China include the problems of old-aged transportation equipments, lack of logistics-specialized companies, lack of fundamental transportation equipments, lack of logistics specialists and lack of knowledge and know-how related to modern logistics. The problems with which logistics industry in China have recently faced include the low efficiency of logistics industry itself and low level of logistics service and logistics credit system provided by logistics industry in China etc. In order to develop logistics industry in China, readjustment of the concept of modern logistics, setting-up of efficient logistics system and promotion of logistics information networks are keenly needed.