Post courier industry resumes at 92.5%
Over 160 million express shipments per day
Our newspaper, Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi) As of 24:00 on March 8, there were 19,016 confirmed cases in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, of which 5,111 were severe cases; 58,600 were cured and discharged. A total of 3,119 deaths were reported, 80,735 confirmed cases were reported, and 421 were suspected cases. The number of newly confirmed local cases in provinces other than Hubei is a single digit since February 27, and there have been no new local confirmed cases for 2 consecutive days since March 7; all cities in Hubei except Wuhan have no new confirmed cases for 4 consecutive days. ; Wuhan has fewer than 50 new confirmed cases for 2 consecutive days.
The State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference on the 9th to introduce the situation of postal express delivery service prevention and control and resumed production. Hou Yanbo, deputy director of the Market Supervision Department of the State Post Office, introduced that the State Post Office has started the postal express industry's resumption and resumption work in an orderly manner since February 7. Currently, the number of reworkers in the industry is nearly 3 million, and the resumption rate is 92.5%. The daily mail processing Express shipments are stable at more than 160 million pieces, and the recovery rate is over 80%. As of March 8, 173 million pieces of epidemic prevention and control materials were delivered by the industry, accumulatively 82,400 tons, 24,000 vehicles were shipped, and 350 freight trains were delivered.
Han Ruilin, Secretary General of the China Express Delivery Association, believes that in the fight against the epidemic, express delivery companies of different ownerships have played an active and effective role in preventing and controlling the delivery of materials, returning to work and resuming production, and social welfare.
Wang Zhiqi, general manager of the postal business department of China Post Group Co., Ltd., said that China Post gives priority to the delivery of materials to Hubei, special dispatch and rapid delivery, and the 9,600 tons of epidemic prevention materials delivered as of March 7. Since January 23, Hubei Province has received a total of 3.55 million mails from residents, including masks, medicines, and daily necessities.
At present, various regions have issued a series of policies to support the resumption of production in the express delivery industry. For example, 13 provinces such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu have issued policies to prioritize postal delivery and resume production of postal express delivery enterprises; 21 provinces such as Hebei and Jilin have promulgated to ensure the smooth flow of postal express vehicles during the epidemic Operational plan; 16 provinces such as Heilongjiang and Hunan explicitly require the delivery of courier to the community to be facilitated; Shanxi, Guangdong and other provinces organize "point-to-point" charter for courier personnel to effectively promote return to work.