China's daily express delivery volume exceeds 200 million pieces and basically restores pre-epidemic levels
Guangming Daily, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Zhan Yuan) On the 25th, the State Council ’s Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of e-commerce to promote consumption and promote economic upgrading and upgrading. According to Bian Zuodong, deputy director of the Market Supervision Department of the State Post Bureau, in the process of epidemic prevention and recovery and resumption of production, express delivery has played an important role in meeting the people's daily necessities online shopping needs and supporting e-commerce resumption of production. The online retail sales of physical goods have accounted for 1/5 of the total retail sales of social consumer goods. Now the daily express delivery volume has exceeded 200 million pieces, which has basically returned to the normal level before the epidemic. The coordinated development of express delivery and e-commerce has made great progress.
In view of the fact that many old residential areas have not set up smart express boxes and are inconvenient for contactless delivery, Bian Zuodong said that in recent years, 406,000 smart express boxes have been built nationwide, and smart express boxes have been put into use in major cities across the country. In response to the problem of the lack of smart express boxes in old residential areas, the State Post Bureau plans to issue guidelines to support the construction of smart express boxes in the near future, and actively promote smart express boxes to enter communities, institutions, campuses, commercial buildings, rural areas, and transportation hubs. Station, in order to give full play to the unique advantages of smart express box.
Under the epidemic situation, whether agricultural products can be shipped and shipped quickly, thereby reducing the loss of farmers, is also a matter of great concern to everyone. Bian Zuodong said that 96.6% of towns and villages across the country have set up express delivery service outlets. In the first quarter of this year, even though it was affected by the epidemic, the amount of express mail received in rural areas still exceeded 3 billion pieces, supporting more than 200 billion yuan for industrial products to go to the countryside and agricultural products to enter the city. He said that in response to the problems of high service costs, low village-level coverage, and some inadequate services for rural express delivery services, the State Post Bureau has recently launched the "Express Delivery to Village" project, and strives to use three years to promote basic realization Village Express.
In the field of online retail, the scale of online retail in China in the first quarter was relatively stable. According to Cai Yudong, deputy director of the Electronic Commerce Department of the Ministry of Commerce, data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that the scale of online retail sales in the first quarter was basically the same as last year, and the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 5.9%. In the next step, in order to release more emerging consumer potential, the Ministry of Commerce will also organize a number of units to hold the “Double Product Online Shopping Festival”, which will be launched from April 28 to May 10, with more than one platform and companies participating. 109 foreign trade production enterprises will also be included.
In the field of information consumption such as online office, Li Ying, a first-level inspector of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the first quarter of 2020, China's mobile Internet access traffic increased by 39.3% year-on-year. Inbound traffic reached 9.5GB, the highest point since December. Services such as audio and video conferencing, remote office, online document collaboration, cloud storage and other services for enterprises in the field of information consumption have effectively promoted the resumption of production and production of enterprises everywhere, and the increase in data traffic consumption also intuitively reflects the rapid growth of information consumption.