Our reporter Ji Leilei
On the morning of December 8, according to the real-time monitoring of the express big data platform of the State Post Bureau, a box of Ehime oranges sent from Zhengshankou Village, Duoyue Town, Dongpo District, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, became the 100 billionth express shipment in 2021.
Express connects thousands of cities and industries, contacts thousands of households, and Unicom online and offline.
Chen Kai, deputy director of the State Post Bureau, said that the arrival of the "100 billion pieces era" marks a new level in the development of my country's postal express industry. It is of great significance for the postal express industry to accelerate its transition from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage.
Steady No. 1 Comprehensive strength continues to increase
At around 8 am on December 8, Fan Ying, who lives in Gaoxin Road, Yanta District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, ordered a box of Ehime Oranges online.
Immediately after receiving the order, the seller Zhang Furong came to the express supermarket in Zhengshankou Village where he was located, and sent the box of oranges through Zhongtong Express.
After packing, loading, sorting, transshipment, delivery and other links, the express was successfully signed for at around 8 o'clock in the morning on December 9.
From Meishan Zhengshankou Village to Xi’an Yanta District, the journey stretches more than 800 kilometers through the Qinling Mountains and passes through more than 100 tunnels. The agricultural products in the small mountain villages were once blocked, and now they are well-known because of the smooth delivery of express delivery.
"The reason why this box of oranges can be delivered 24 hours a day is mainly due to the time-sensitive products and services that we have focused on this year, that is, Zhongtong Standard Express." Zhu Jianing, assistant general manager of the Sichuan Provincial Management Center of Zhongtong, was interviewed by reporter Yun Shi introduced that at present, Zhongtong Standard Express delivers goods from Chengdu, which can achieve next-day and next-day delivery in 84% of cities across the country.
Through the video connection cloud interview, the reporter found that in the Chengdu Distribution Center of Zhongtong Express, 4 flow sorting lines full of express parcels are operating at high speed.
"Express parcels are now automatically sorted. Each parcel will be automatically weighed, and then the respective sorting path will be automatically generated through 6-sided code reading technology." Zhu Jianing said that in the past, automatic sorting is more suitable for small pieces of less than 1 kg. Now, packages of more than 3 kg can also be automatically sorted, which greatly improves the efficiency and accuracy of fruit sorting.
Only Meishan Citrus, Zhongtong's annual shipment volume exceeds 8 million.
"Express support supports online retail sales of physical goods, agricultural product sales, manufacturing output value, and cross-border e-commerce sales to new highs. It has gradually become an accelerator of commodity circulation, a through train for special agricultural products, a mobile warehouse for manufacturing, and cross-border e-commerce. The bridgehead of e-commerce." Chen Kai said that in recent years, the industry has been focusing on key points, making up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, industry integration has become closer, market vitality has fully burst, and industry development has made great progress.
my country's postal express delivery business volume has been ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years, the entire time limit of express delivery services between key regions has been shortened to about 58 hours, and the effective appeal rate has been declining.
Eight express delivery companies were successfully listed, forming three branded express delivery groups with an annual business volume of over 10 billion pieces and a revenue of over 100 billion yuan.
Westward and downward business structure is more optimized
At present, my country's express delivery service system that connects urban and rural areas, covers the whole country, and reaches the world has basically been completed. Express delivery outlets have basically achieved full coverage of townships and towns. The service network has accelerated to the village level, serving nearly 700 million users per day.
"In recent years, the State Post Bureau has vigorously promoted the service expansion project of'express westward downward', and continued to improve the network in the central and western regions and rural areas." According to Wang Feng, director of the Postal Security Center of the State Post Bureau, from the perspective of regional distribution, January 2021 As of October, the express business volume in the eastern, central and western regions was 67.90 billion, 12.49 billion and 6.33 billion, respectively, accounting for 78.3%, 14.4% and 7.3%.
Compared with the same period last year, the express business volume in the eastern region increased by 32.5%, and the proportion decreased by 1.3 percentage points; the express business volume in the central region increased by 48.1%, and the proportion rose by 1.3 percentage points; the express business volume in the western region increased by 34.7%, and the proportion was basically the same.
From a structural point of view, this year's 100 billion express delivery business volume more bears the mission of agricultural products going up and industrial products going to the countryside.
“Now there are 100 million parcels sent to the countryside on the entire network every day, which greatly improves the convenience of purchasing industrial daily necessities. Express delivery allows a steady stream of agricultural specialty products to leave the village and enter the city, which further highlights the postal express industry’s promotion of consumption upgrades, The role of smoothing the economic cycle has become an important force in consolidating the results of poverty alleviation and implementing the strategy of rural revitalization." Wang Feng said.
At present, the rural township post offices have achieved full coverage, 100% direct postal services have been achieved in the organized villages, and universal postal service equalization has basically been achieved; 98% of the townships have express delivery outlets; more than half of the organized villages have achieved express delivery services to the villages.
At the same time, the coordinated development of rural delivery logistics, modern agriculture, and rural e-commerce has achieved remarkable results, and the weight of agricultural products going out of the village into the city, and consumer goods going to the countryside into the village is getting heavier.
Take Shaanxi as an example. This year, Shaanxi Province has built 5 gold medal projects for express service of modern agriculture with a business volume of over 10 million pieces represented by apples and kiwis, and cultivated 8 projects of “one product in one place” with a business volume of over one million pieces. There are 40 "One County One Product" projects.
"I hope that our special agricultural products can enter thousands of households more and more through express logistics." said Xue Wei, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Postal Administration.
Wang Feng said that in the future, the State Post Bureau will strengthen its industry development advantages, deepen the collaboration of e-commerce express delivery, and create an upgraded version of the "express + e-commerce" China program, which will better support new online and offline integrated circulation, social e-commerce and other new types of e-commerce. Business development, and promote the high-quality development of the industry with "innovation feeding back".
The quality and efficiency of technology empowered development continue to improve
Since the beginning of this year, my country's express delivery industry has continued its rapid growth.
From January to October, the business volume of express service companies across the country increased by 34.7% year-on-year.
At the same time, advanced technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and Beidou navigation are more closely integrated with the industry, and domestic express logistics equipment such as "little yellow guys", drones, and smart warehouses are widely used and basically achieved In order to achieve diversified service functions, fast delivery services, internal operation automation and production organization information.
The industry's integrated land, sea and air transportation system has become more complete, high-speed rail express delivery has been operating steadily, and dedicated freighters have increased from 71 to 126.
"The achievement of this series of achievements has further strengthened the confidence in the new development pattern of industry services, consolidated the foundation for high-quality development of the industry, and created conditions for achieving a higher level of governance." Chen Kai said.
Today, more than 300 million new express mails are generated every day, the security situation facing delivery channels is severe and complex, and industry governance, especially security control, is becoming more difficult.
"After more than ten years of development, the real-time monitoring of the entire network of express mail has been realized, which plays a key role in pre-warning, monitoring during the event, and handling after the event." Xu Liangfeng, deputy director of the Data Management Division of the Postal Security Center of the State Post Bureau, told reporters , The express big data platform currently processes billions of data in each link of express delivery every day, can monitor the service quality of each express in real time, dispatch and intervene in problematic express in time, ensure timeliness, and continuously improve user experience.
In the future, the platform will also deeply integrate the application scenarios of express big data services for people's livelihood and social governance.
The annual business volume of express delivery exceeds 100 billion pieces, which is inseparable from the hard work of couriers.
Bian Zuodong, deputy director of the Market Supervision Department of the State Post Bureau, said that since this year, corporate headquarters have successively adopted pragmatic measures such as increasing the end distribution fee, reducing assessment fines, and establishing courier complaint and defense channels to protect the rights and interests of the frontline brothers; provincial postal administrations Strengthen cooperation with relevant departments to promote the introduction of policies in the province.
High-quality development is the only way for my country's postal express industry to grow from large to strong.
Chen Kai said that in the next step, the State Post Bureau will encourage market players to establish differentiated product systems and pricing mechanisms, adhere to the promotion of development and supervision and regulation, focus on key areas, promote "express delivery into the factory", and steadily promote "express delivery". "Going to sea", promote the project of "express delivery into villages" classified, strengthen the protection of the legal rights and interests of couriers, and lay a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the express delivery industry.