Zhitong Finance app learned that monitoring data from the State Post Bureau showed that as of August 13, the number of express delivery services in China this year has exceeded 100 billion, 71 days ahead of reaching 100 billion in 2023. This highlights the prosperity and vitality of China's express delivery market and the continuous improvement of its development quality and efficiency, reflecting the dynamism and resiliency of China's economic development.

Since the beginning of this year, China's postal and express delivery industry has continued to develop rapidly, not only in terms of quantity, but also in quality. The average monthly business volume exceeds 13 billion, and the average monthly business income exceeds 100 billion yuan, both reaching historic highs. According to relevant officials of the State Post Bureau, as China's economy continues to recover and consumer demand remains strong, the express delivery industry is providing strong support for servicing the online economy and promoting the flow of product factors, under the series of policies that give a bullish outlook to the development of this industry. In addition, the express delivery industry is continuously opening up new areas of development, such as factory-to-office express delivery and reverse logistics, and accelerating the cultivation of new power technologies and advantages for high-quality development of the industry.

So far, more than 1,200 county-level public postal and delivery service centers and over 0.3 million village-level postal and delivery logistics comprehensive service stations have been built in China. A relatively complete rural postal and delivery logistics system has been established, playing an increasingly important role in reducing the circulation costs and improving the efficiency of agricultural products.

Relevant officials of the State Post Bureau stated that the next step will be to focus on promoting the high-quality development of the industry, cultivating and developing new productive forces according to local conditions, and extending the digital and intelligent tentacles more fully to all aspects of delivery and transportation, effectively improving the productivity of all factors of production. It will also strengthen the construction of delivery networks, optimize the layout of delivery hubs around urban clusters, continue to promote the construction of rural postal and delivery logistics systems, improve the international postal and delivery service network, and continuously improve the connectivity of domestic and international networks. By continuously deepening industrial coordination, it will drive the integration of the service chain with advanced manufacturing to better serve economic development.

This article was selected from the official WeChat account of the State Post Bureau, and edited by Zhitong Finance: Liu Jiayin.