According to information from the Zhitong Finance App, data from the State Post Bureau shows that as of September 29, the annual national express business revenue exceeded 1 trillion yuan this year. The top three express delivery companies in terms of brand-wide operating income are SF Express, zto express (02057) and yto express group (600233.SH). Since surpassing 1 trillion yuan for the first time in 2021, China's express delivery annual business revenue has maintained rapid growth, with the time taken to surpass the trillion mark shortening each year, almost one and a half months earlier this year compared to last year. This achievement not only demonstrates the significant results of the high-quality development of the postal express delivery industry, but also highlights its positive role in serving production, promoting consumption, and facilitating circulation, reflecting the strong resilience and continued positive development momentum of the Chinese economy.

Since the beginning of this year, the postal express delivery industry has continuously cultivated new productive forces for development, solidly promoted high-quality development, while the scale economic effects continue to expand, the industry integration, supply adaptability, efficiency, and service stability have all seen significant improvements, becoming an "accelerator" for driving production consumption and promoting industrial upgrading.

"Takeoff!" In mid-September, a cargo plane loaded with 50 tons of goods took off from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, heading to Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The flight operates twice a week, mainly carrying cross-border e-commerce platform parcels and electronic components on the outbound trip, and automotive spare parts and other goods on the return trip. In recent years, the postal express delivery industry has focused on building a modern postal delivery service network system of "hubs + channels + networks", actively integrating into the comprehensive transportation system, and has basically established a postal express delivery service network covering the entire country, reaching deep into rural areas and connecting globally. On this postal express delivery service network, nearly 200 cargo planes soar in the sky, over 0.27 million express service vehicles speed through streets and alleys, about 0.413 million various business outlets are scattered across urban and rural areas, nearly 3000 different types of distribution centers handle over 0.4 billion items daily...

While expanding the network scale, the postal express delivery industry continues to improve service quality. Postal and express delivery companies innovate service content and forms, continuously enhance service standards, strengthen employee service skills training, improve and perfect after-sales service systems, comprehensively and multi-dimensionally enhance the quality of express delivery services. In Kunming, Yunnan, local postal and express delivery companies exchange services for premium prices, customizing a comprehensive transport solution of "aviation + cold chain + quality express delivery" for flower delivery, ensuring that trimmed and pre-cooled flowers can arrive in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou within 24 hours, achieving both reasonable quantitative growth and effective quality improvement.

Currently, the postal express delivery industry is driving industrial innovation through technological innovation, showing a good development trend in innovation. Facilities such as intelligent security inspection, automatic sorting, unmanned warehouses, unmanned vehicles, and drones are rapidly applied, while Beidou navigation, 5G technology, and artificial intelligence are continuously integrated into various processes such as collection, sorting, transportation, and delivery, improving production efficiency and reducing operating costs. In terms of product innovation, the development concept of "cost zoning, service stratification, product classification" has become a consensus in the industry, with postal and express delivery companies continuously promoting product and service innovation, developing diversified delivery services such as time-sensitive items, economical items, large items, cold chain, same-city delivery, etc., further meeting differentiated and personalized social needs.

Green is the foundation for the high-quality development of the postal express delivery industry. In Danyang, Jiangsu, local express delivery outlets have launched the "exchange points for old boxes" activity, allowing residents to use points to offset mailing costs or exchange for daily necessities. The collected old boxes will be provided free of charge to residents in need when sending packages. Similar green and low-carbon activities have been carried out in multiple regions across the country. As of now, the entire industry has basically achieved full coverage of electronic waybills and recyclable transfer bags, with over 95% of e-commerce parcels no longer requiring secondary packaging, and the standardization, circularization, reduction, and harmless level of express packaging have been significantly improved.

The relevant person in charge of the State Post Bureau stated that the next step will closely focus on promoting the high-quality development of the industry, adhere to digitization and intelligence to empower the industry, adapt to local conditions to cultivate and develop new productive forces, and extend digitization and intelligence more fully to various links of collection, transfer, and delivery to effectively improve the overall production efficiency. Strengthen the construction of postal delivery networks, optimize the layout of postal hubs around urban agglomerations, continuously promote the construction of rural postal and logistics systems, improve the international postal service network, and continuously enhance internal and external connectivity capabilities. Continuously deepen industry synergy, promote the integration of service chains with advanced manufacturing, and better serve economic development. Continuously strengthen market entities, actively create a fair competition and development environment for various forms of ownership enterprises.

This article is selected from the official WeChat account of the State Post Bureau, edited by Zhìtōng Finance: Lǐ Fú.