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Keywords:: DEA; overall efficiency; pure technical efficiency; scale efficiency

Abstract:: As an important element of the national economy, logistics efficiency has a direct impact on the performance of the community economy. With the DEA model, we investigated and evaluated the logistics efficiency by using the logistics input and output data of the 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China in 2010. The result demonstrates that input and output of logistics in 15 provinces, municipalities represented by Beijing and Shanghai are DEA overall effective, such provinces and autonomous regions as Qinghai and Ningxia are effective only in pure technical efficiency rather than being scale efficiency effective, and provinces and autonomous regions like Jilin show a lack of output with low efficiency in utilizing logistics resources. To ensure the reliability of the data and demonstrate the dynamic features of the logistics efficiency in China, similar evaluations are also made by using the data in 2009 and 2011. Finally, some policies and advices for the logistics development are proposed respectively for the western and eastern regions as well as for some developed regions such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.