This year, China’s parcel delivery or over 60 billion postal services will share dividends.
On October 25th, China-Europe train (Yiwu — Liege) The first train of "eWTP Cainiao" arrived at the logistics multimodal transport freight station in Liege, Belgium. This is the first special train that runs through the Yangtze River Delta region of China, Central Asia and Europe and serves cross-border electronic commerce. Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Geping photo
In recent years, the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has promoted China to become an important participant, promoter and beneficiary in the global cross-border parcel delivery market. This year, it is estimated that the express delivery volume of parcels in China will exceed 60 billion pieces, contributing more than 50% to the growth of the world postal industry. The postal department constantly innovates the service model and improves the global postal network, which not only provides logistics guarantee for cross-border trade, but also shares the dividends brought by the strong growth of cross-border e-commerce — —
In recent years, cross-border electronic commerce, especially cross-border B2C, has maintained strong growth and become a new engine of global economic growth. Statistics from the State Post Bureau show that at present, the proportion of parcels from China market has reached 38%, and China has become an important participant, promoter and beneficiary of the global cross-border parcel delivery market.
At the UPU Global Conference on Cross-border Cooperation in the Era of E-commerce held recently, Ma Junsheng, Director of the State Post Bureau, revealed that this year, it is estimated that the express delivery volume of parcels in China will exceed 60 billion pieces, contributing more than 50% to the growth of the world postal industry, and the whole industry will support cross-border electronic commerce’s transaction volume for the whole year to exceed 350 billion yuan. China postal delivery industry has become the main logistics mode of cross-border e-commerce with the characteristics of wide network coverage, low price and high speed, and has played an irreplaceable role in promoting the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce.
Postal services cover 70% of cross-border parcels.
In Xiamen International Mail Exchange Bureau, batches of outbound mails sent by China Post to the United States, Russian, Swiss and other countries and regions are automatically identified by the customs mail supervision system, sorted and cleared, and then boarded the mail bus to the airport. At present, the bureau has established direct sealing relations with 32 ports in 24 countries and regions. The volume of inbound and outbound mail business increased from 39 million in 2016 to more than 60 million in 2018.
At the same time, in Yiwu International Mail Exchange Bureau, about 155,500 export mails are shipped to 127 countries and regions around the world every day. Most of them are traditional small commodities such as jewelry, clothes and glasses, which are mainly exported to the United States, Russia, Spain and other countries and regions.
"In recent years, under the circumstance that the traditional letter business has been shrinking for more than ten years, many countries’ postal designated operators have implemented diversified transformation with parcels as the core, and developed small packages and express delivery services for the international market, which has achieved remarkable results and returned to the rapid growth channel." Ma Junsheng said that this is mainly due to the development of cross-border electronic commerce. According to the survey, postal services accounted for about 70% of the global cross-border parcels in 2018. These cross-border parcels are mainly clothing, consumer electronic products, health and beauty products, etc. 72% of the parcels weigh less than 1000 grams, which is highly consistent with the advantages of postal delivery of high value and light weight.
Ma Junsheng introduced that China has seized the opportunity of e-commerce development, promulgated a series of promotion policies, promulgated and implemented the e-commerce law, implemented the "internet plus Circulation" action plan, and built 35 comprehensive experimental zones in cross-border electronic commerce, which has become the fastest-growing and most dynamic emerging delivery market in the world.
Nowadays, cross-border delivery service has played a great role in promoting the export of small and medium-sized enterprises’ products and providing people with goods imports, and has become a new driving force to promote foreign trade growth and industrial transformation and upgrading. With the promulgation of "Several Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Delivery Services in cross-border electronic commerce (Provisional)", it will further guarantee the delivery safety, improve the user experience, reduce the logistics cost, maintain fair competition, and form a new pattern of online and offline collaborative development.
"Three customs in one" to ensure smooth postal route
In order to cope with the rapid growth of business volume and ensure the timeliness of mail express, many inbound and outbound mail express processing centers across the country are innovating service models.
According to reports, Xiamen Inbound and Outbound Mail Express Supervision Center is the first comprehensive service platform for inbound and outbound supervision in China that integrates mail exchange bureau, express mail and cross-border e-commerce supervision mode. "The center has not only settled in the customs and other regulatory units, but also settled in 42 express mail, customs declaration and logistics enterprises, realizing the same venue ‘ Three customs in one ’ It has greatly improved the efficiency of customs clearance, enriched the customs clearance business model and provided greater convenience for cross-border e-commerce. " The staff of the center told the reporter that in order to provide convenient and fast services to consumers, personal goods tax payment can also realize online (UnionPay, WeChat) and offline linkage, which meets the individual needs of individual users.
General rules of postal routes are widely traded. The export business volume of light and small parts has increased geometrically, which has also opened the road to success for cross-border e-commerce. More sellers have concentrated on the operation of light and small parts, gradually forming an agglomeration effect.
"In order to better serve cross-border e-commerce, China Post upgraded the original international small package business, connected with the e-commerce platform system, optimized the tariff structure, realized online delivery of small package products, and provided a more economical and convenient delivery solution for light and small products with good quality and low price in China." Zhang Ronglin, deputy general manager of China Post Group Corporation, said that at present, the international small package service has expanded to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, making it one of the preferred logistics solutions for cross-border sellers. At the same time, China Post also cooperated with cross-border e-commerce platform to serve the transformation of manufacturing industry. At present, there are more than 100,000 small and medium-sized enterprises delivered by China Post.
Li Guo, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs of China, said that China Customs has effectively promoted the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce retail import and export by continuously strengthening supervision and optimizing services. From January to October this year, the total retail import and export volume through the customs cross-border electronic commerce management platform was 139.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.5%.
Set up a global postal network by land, sea and air
The rapid development of cross-border electronic commerce has not only effectively promoted cross-border trade and global economic development, but also had a great impact on the export, transshipment and delivery of postal supply chain.
Taking international railway postal transportation as an example, international railway postal transportation is a channel innovation to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce business. At present, it has realized the large-scale operation of postal transportation in Chongqing New Europe and Yixin New Europe. "Railway transportation is safe, fast, green and less affected by the natural environment, and has become the backbone of cross-border land transportation in China." Liu Aili, Chairman of China Post Group Corporation, said that up to now, China Post has sent more than 10 million pieces of mail to 24 European countries through China-Europe trains, China-Russia combined rail transport and other railway modes, with a total weight of more than 2,000 tons.
In the era of e-commerce, the postal network based on the framework of the Universal Postal Union is still the largest physical delivery network in the world, and it is also the main channel for the delivery of cross-border e-commerce goods. Bichard Hussain, Director-General of the International Bureau of UPU, said that cross-border trade is the heart of globalization, and it is very important for global trade to ensure that the global supply chain is efficient and effective. If the global postal network is to provide convenience for global trade and ensure the rapid and safe flow of billions of mails, it is necessary to use new technologies, improve service quality and enhance the integration of railway freight.
How to achieve borderless, universal, personalized, efficient, safe, reliable and environment-friendly cross-border electronic commerce service? "All stakeholders such as postal services, customs, aviation and railways should work together to share opportunities, meet challenges and seek common development." Zhao Min, deputy director of the State Post Bureau, said that cross-border electronic commerce is the most growing new kinetic energy in the postal sector. Postal departments should actively respond to the deep adjustment of the global industrial chain supply chain, maintain agile response and dynamic adjustment, implement digital transformation, and integrate with new formats such as sharing economy and platform economy through data resource sharing and intelligent upgrading of facilities and equipment to adapt to the requirements of the digital economy era.
"In the future, the State Post Bureau will promote bilateral and multilateral postal and express cooperation, deepen exchanges and cooperation with international organizations such as customs, railways and civil aviation, and further create a good environment for postal express delivery enterprises to participate in cross-border electronic commerce." Zhao Min said.