China's express delivery business volume increased by 42.9% in the first seven months

　　China News Agency, Beijing, August 13 (Reporter Liu Yuying) The data on the operation of China's postal industry released on the 13th showed that in the first seven months of 2021, China's express delivery business volume increased by more than 40% year-on-year, continuing to maintain rapid growth.

　　From January to July, the total business volume of express service companies across the country completed 58.33 billion pieces, an increase of 42.9% year-on-year; the cumulative business income was 566.94 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 24.7% year-on-year.

　　Among them, the eastern region's express delivery business accounted for nearly 80%, but the central region's proportion was rising.

From January to July, the proportion of express delivery business in the eastern, central and western regions was 78.6%, 14.2% and 7.2% respectively.

Compared with the same period last year, the proportion of express delivery business in the eastern region fell by 1.4%, the proportion of express business in the central region increased by 1.5%, and the proportion of express business in the western region fell by 0.1%.

　　This year, the proportion of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan business volume declined slightly.

From January to July, intra-city, inter-regional, and international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery services accounted for 13.2%, 84.7%, and 2.1% of all express delivery services, respectively.

Compared with the same period last year, the proportion of intra-city express delivery business decreased by 3.1%, the proportion of inter-city express delivery business increased by 3.3%, and the proportion of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan business decreased by 0.2%.

　　The data also shows that from January to July, the postal industry's business income (excluding the direct operating income of the Postal Savings Bank) completed a total of 714.53 billion yuan, an increase of 20.9% year-on-year; the total business volume completed a total of 751.39 billion yuan, an increase of 32.5% year-on-year.

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