China is expected to see continuous growth in the express delivery industry this year, the state post regulator said on Monday.
A total of 95.5 billion parcels are expected to be delivered this year, posting a year-on-year increase of 15 percent, according to those at the annual meeting of the State Post Bureau of China.
When the world economy is in a deep recession, the performance of China's express industry is particularly outstanding, reflecting China's leading role in the global recovery and the pick-up of its domestic consumption, as well as the vitality of China's economy.
The reason why the express industry can burgeon is due to the rapid resumption of work and production and the accelerated development of online and offline integration of the consumer market.
Over the years, China's express industry has been regarded as a legendary success story in the world, not only because of the fact that such scale is rarely seen in the world, but also because of its super high capacity for efficiency handling more than 200 million parcels a day.
China handled 83 billion packages last year, a rise of 30.8 percent, the bureau said.
In 2019, express packages posted a 25.3-percent growth to 63.52 billion, increasing by over 10 billion pieces for two consecutive years.
Behind this is the digital and intelligent transformation of China's logistics industry. The endless emergence of innovative technology is further helping the logistics industry to cope with the challenges faced during peak shipping periods.
For the logistics industry, this year is not only a special year, but also a critical year. China's logistics industry has not only played an important role in epidemic prevention and control, but it has also done its part to help stabilize the industrial chain supply chain. Moreover, it has turned the crisis into an opportunity and ushered in a new round of development opportunities.
Facing a new stage of development, China still needs to make more efforts to establish and improve its modern circulation system and to fully develop its modern logistics enterprises with a degree of international competitiveness. It is expected that China will emerge as a "logistics power" from a "big logistics country" in the future.
