In the first half of the year, the volume of postal and delivery services in China exceeded one hundred billion pieces.

Journalists learned from the State Post Bureau on the 16th that in the first half of this year, the postal industry in China completed a total of 104.51 billion pieces of postal and delivery services, an increase of 16.9% year-on-year. Among them, the express delivery volume reached 95.64 billion pieces, an increase of 19.3% year-on-year. According to the relevant person in charge of the State Post Bureau, in the first half of this year, the total business income of the postal industry in China reached 8730.9 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year. Among them, the total business income of the express delivery industry reached 7187.8 billion yuan, an increase of 10.1% year-on-year. The person in charge stated that in the first half of this year, the volume of same-city express delivery in China reached 7.88 billion pieces, an increase of 6.2% year-on-year; the volume of cross-city express delivery reached 85.74 billion pieces, an increase of 20.6% year-on-year; and the volume of international/Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan express delivery reached 2.02 billion pieces, an increase of 22.5% year-on-year. The person in charge said that in the first half of this year, the proportion of express delivery volume in the eastern, central, and western regions of China was 71.6%, 19.3%, and 9.1% respectively, and the proportion of express delivery income was 74%, 15.5%, and 10.5% respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the proportion of express delivery volume in the central region increased by 0.8 percentage points, and the proportion of express delivery income increased by 0.5 percentage points; the proportion of express delivery volume in the western region increased by 0.6 percentage points, and the proportion of express delivery income increased by 0.3 percentage points. (End) This article is reprinted from "Xinhua News Agency", GMTEight editor: Li Fo.