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of socialized divided work. The result of professional divide work has lead many non-core businesses to separate from the activities of manufacturing management in enterprises, which includes the third party logistics industries. Employing the professional companies of the third party logistics to do the logistics business may reduce the cost of logistics, as well as perfect the service functions of logistics activities. (2) The birth of the third party logistics is the need of the management in supply chain. After entering 90s, Information Technology, especially the technology of computers, as well as the further division of socialized divided work, promotes the fast development of technology management and management theories. ( Richard Zelade. (2001) All these add the complexity of logistics activities and require much higher about the logistics activities in the terms of zero storage, on-time system, quick response and effective response to customers. These common enterprises cannot afford such businesses; therefore the need of professional logistics services has come. The center thought of the third party logistics is just satisfy the need of these enterprises. The appearance of the third party logistics, on one hand, meets the needs of cooperation between companies in the individual-needed age; on the other hand, it realizes the integration of in- and out-logistics. The service quality of logistics has improved. The supply chain has been controlled and corresponded more roundly, and promotes to research the whole optimization of the supply chain (Strausl, Dean. 2001). 4.3 The Key Features of the Third Party Logistics (1) Operation of systematical project The significant difference existing between the third party logistics and traditional logistics is no longer do single logistics business of the customer enterprises, but do the logistics of customer enterprises as a systematical project. That means to contain all the elements related to logistics (packaging, storage, transportation, carrying and the route, etc.), to form logistics system. Emphasize from the angle of system integration to analyze the inter-action between each elements, individual effect of every element to the system, so as to reach the optimization of the whole system. (2) Enjoying both resources and benefits Forever reducing logistics cost, forever improving the logistics work efficiency, inputting the least to get the maximum revenue are the target of both customer enterprises and the third party logistics companies. The information in the information network built by the third party logistics is shared with both customer enterprises and the third party logistics. It is better for exchanging information, because of the non-block information flow; logistics could be operated in high efficiency. The higher the logistics working efficiency, the less the capital inputted, and the less the cost of logistics. It can be seen easily that both could benefit from the cooperation. (3) Long-term cooperation Because of the communion of resource and benefit between the third party logistics and customer enterprises, the buy-and-sell relationship has become the strategy alliance and fellow who grow up together. This can be seen from the following two points: Point 1 is to grantee the stability and reliability of logistics system. Point2 points out that because of the change of their relationship, the cooperation between them has become more intensive. In the process of cooperati