China's transport operators do not pay much attention to market forces and have poor safety and punctuality records. Some FIEs have thus built their own fleet of trucks to ensure prompt delivery of supplies. The best example is McDonald's. As the company needs to deliver buns, meat and other foodstuffs to warehouses throughout China everyday, it has established its own transportation company to ensure timely deliveries. Make use of flexible logistics services.
China lags far behind in urban transportation development.
Both urban road construction and traffic control fail to meet the growth in traffic volume. Today, traffic congestion is a major bottleneck in urban logistics development in large cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenyang. To overcome this problem, some FIEs make use of bicycles to deliver goods. These flexible distribution methods have proved to be immensely successful. Following China's entry into the WTO, domestic sales restrictions on FIEs will be phased out and rules prohibiting foreign investment in logistics services will be gradually lifted.