First, the scale of the industry continues to expand. 1949 China's total postal business was only 160 million yuan, by the end of last year, the country's total postal business has reached 1,234.5 billion yuan, an increase of more than 7,700 times in 70 years.
The second is the continuous improvement of infrastructure. After 70 years of large-scale construction, it has basically formed a modern postal and express delivery service network that makes comprehensive use of various modes of transportation, such as air, rail and road, and connects urban and rural areas, covers the whole country and connects to the world. By 2018, more than 230 postal and express-type professional logistics parks had been built across the country, with the one-way length of the postal and express service network reaching 39,448,000 kilometers, and 275,000 business outlets of various types, 56 times and 10.4 times more than in 1949, respectively. The whole industry has three cargo airlines, operating 115 all-cargo planes, 322,000 postal and express service vehicles, and significant progress has been made in the operation modes of e-commerce liner and high-speed rail express.
Third, the development of quality and efficiency is significantly optimized. The production and operation efficiency of the political industry continues to improve, the level of scientific and technological application has been significantly enhanced, new forms of business continue to emerge, the strength of the enterprise has been significantly improved, and the connection with related industries is closer, the industry's high-quality development of the color is more pure, the bottom is brighter, the foundation is more solid. According to Ma Junsheng's introduction, by 2018, more than 200 intelligent distribution centers had been built across the country, and the utilization rate of electronic waybill exceeded 96%, greatly improving the processing efficiency of each link. 320,000 intelligent express mail boxes were put into operation, and the box delivery rate was raised to 11.3%. Big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence and other key industry development **** technology and equipment to speed up the application of postal optical character recognition sorting technology, electronic waybill, "unmanned warehouse, unmanned aircraft, unmanned vehicles" and other technology and equipment in the world at the leading level. "The industry has been effective in serving advanced manufacturing, modern agriculture and cross-border online shopping. China Post Group Corporation's ranking among the world's top 500 companies has continued to rise, seven enterprises have been listed one after another, and six large enterprise groups with annual revenues of more than 30 billion yuan have been formed."
Fourth, the ability to serve people's livelihoods is continuously enhanced. After 70 years of unremitting efforts, the accessibility and balance of universal postal services have been continuously improved, and express delivery services are spread throughout urban and rural areas and have begun to extend to the village level. "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, launched the postal blank township offices to build projects and "express to the countryside" project, the overall realization of the "townships set up, village postal" goal. "Last year, the country **** built 178,000 village postal stations and 610,000 "postal shopping" sites, basically covering administrative villages. The coverage rate of our township courier outlets exceeded 95 percent, and direct mail access to established villages was basically completed. Postal industry annual service user number has more than 100 billion people, support network shopping transactions exceeded 7 trillion yuan, driving agricultural products into the city and industrial products to the countryside more than 700 billion yuan, more than 200,000 new social jobs each year, the industry through the political convenience of the people to benefit the function of the business to further play the people with the post sense of satisfaction is constantly increasing." Ma Junsheng explained.
Fifth, international exchanges and cooperation to promote in-depth. Before 1949, there were only 26 countries and regions that established direct postal relations with China. After 70 years of continuous efforts, we have now established postal relations with more than 200 countries and regions in the world. During these 70 years, we have also restored our legitimate seat in the UPU, successfully organized the UPU Congress in Beijing, fully opened up the domestic parcel market, been elected as a member of the UPU Council of Administration and Council of Operations for many times, and y participated in the institutional reform of the UPU, the formulation of rules for the international transportation of mail by international railroads, and other international affairs, so that our right to speak in global postal governance has been significantly strengthened.