State Post Bureau: National express delivery revenue exceeded one trillion yuan in the first nine months.

According to data from the State Post Bureau, as of September 29, this year's national express delivery business revenue has exceeded 1 trillion yuan. The top three express delivery companies in terms of brand-wide revenue scale are SF Express, ZTO Express, and YTO Express Group. Since surpassing 1 trillion yuan for the first time in 2021, the annual business revenue of express delivery in China has maintained a rapid growth momentum. The time taken to break through the trillion mark has shortened year by year, with this year being nearly a month and a half earlier than last year. This achievement not only demonstrates the significant achievements of high-quality development in the postal and express delivery industry, but also highlights its positive role in serving production, promoting consumption, and facilitating circulation, reflecting the strong resilience of the Chinese economy and the sustained trend of positive development. This year, the postal and express delivery industry has been continuously nurturing and developing new quality productive forces, solidly promoting high-quality development. While the scale economy effect continues to expand, the industry integration, supply adaptability, efficiency and convenience, and service stability have all been significantly improved, becoming a "accelerator" driving production consumption and promoting industrial upgrading. "In flight!" In mid-September, a full freighter carrying 50 tons of goods took off from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport en route to Budapest, the capital of Hungary. This flight operates twice a week, carrying mainly cross-border e-commerce platform parcels and electronic components on the outbound leg, and automotive parts on the return leg. In recent years, the postal and express delivery industry has been working to build a modern postal delivery service network system of "hub + transportation corridor + network", actively integrating into the comprehensive transportation system. It has basically established a postal and express delivery service network covering the entire country, reaching into rural areas and connecting globally. On this postal delivery service network, nearly 200 full freighters soar in the sky, over 270,000 express service vehicles speed through the streets and alleys, 413,000 various business outlets are spread across urban and rural areas, and nearly 3,000 various sorting centers process over 400 million express items daily... While expanding the network scale, the postal and express delivery industry has also been continuously improving service quality. The postal and express delivery companies are constantly innovating service content and form, continuously improving service standards, enhancing employee service skills training, improving and perfecting after-sales service systems, and comprehensively and multilayeredly improving the quality of express delivery services. In Kunming, Yunnan, the local postal and express delivery companies have tailored a comprehensive transportation solution for flower delivery, including "air transport + cold chain + quality express", ensuring that trimmed, pre-cooled flowers can reach major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou within 24 hours, while maintaining reasonable growth in volume and achieving effective qualitative improvements. Currently, the postal and express delivery industry is promoting industrial innovation through technological innovation, showing a positive trend of innovative development. Facilities such as intelligent security inspection, automatic sorting, unmanned warehouses, unmanned vehicles, and drones are rapidly being applied, while Beidou navigation, 5G technology, and artificial intelligence are continuously integrated into collection, sorting, transportation, and delivery processes, improving production efficiency and reducing operating costs. In terms of product innovation, the development concept of "cost zoning, service layering, product classification" has become an industry consensus. Postal and express delivery companies are continuously promoting product and service innovation, developing diversified delivery services such as time-sensitive items, economical items, large items, cold chain items, and intra-city services, further meeting differentiated and personalized social needs. Green is the foundation for the high-quality development of the postal and express delivery industry. In Danyang, Jiangsu, local express delivery points have launched a "exchange old boxes for points" activity, where residents can use points to deduct shipping fees or exchange for daily necessities. The recycled old boxes will be provided free of charge to residents in need. Similar green and low-carbon activities have been carried out in many places nationwide. As of now, electronic waybills and recyclable transfer bags have been fully covered in the industry, with over 95% of e-commerce parcels no longer requiring secondary packaging. The standardization, recycling, reduction, and harmlessness of express packaging have significantly improved. Officials from the State Post Bureau stated that the next step will focus on promoting high-quality development in the industry, adhere to empowering the industry with digitalization and intelligence, nurture and develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, and extend the reach of digitalization and intelligence to all aspects of collection, transfer, and delivery to effectively improve the efficiency of all elements of production. Strengthen the construction of postal delivery networks, optimize postal hub layouts around urban clusters, continuously promote the construction of rural postal and logistics systems, improve international postal delivery service networks, and continuously enhance domestic and international connectivity capabilities. Continuously deepen industrial collaboration, promote the integration of service chains with advanced manufacturing, and better serve economic development. Continuously strengthen market entities and actively create a fair competition environment for various types of enterprises to develop and compete. This article was selected from the official WeChat account of the State Post Bureau, edited by Li Fo.