China Post Explained

China Post Group Corporation
Native Name:	Chinese: 中国邮政集团有限公司
Type:	State-owned enterprise
Foundation:	1949
Founder:	Government of China
Location:	No. A3 Jinrong Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Key People:	Ma Junsheng, Director-General ^[1]
Area Served:	Mainland China^[2]
Industry:	Courier
Services:	Letter post, parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding, third-party logistics, deposit account
Revenue:	USD 89.347 billion
Net Income:	USD 4.4409 billion (2020)
Num Employees:	927,171 (2020)
Owner:	People's Republic of China
Parent:	State Council via the Ministry of Finance

China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation,^[3] is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated as a state-owned enterprise.

China Post shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau, which regulates the national postal industry.

History

See main article: Postage stamps and postal history of China.

The Customs Post Office of the Qing dynasty was established in 1878 by Robert Hart^[4] at the suggestion of the foreign powers, with branch offices in five major trading cities. On 20 March 1896, the Customs Post Office became the Great Qing Post, which in 1911 became independent of the customs service. The Great Qing Post became the Chunghwa Post in 1912. Chunghwa postal service had signed a contract with the China Airways Federal group in 1929 to transport airmail on the Shanghai-Hankou, Nanjing-Beijing, and Hankou-Guangzhou routes.^[5] ^[6] Chunghwa Post had functioned as the main postal service provider of Mainland China until 1949.

The current postal service of People's Republic of China was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Post in mainland China in 1949, as well as in the Universal Postal Union in 1972. It was formerly administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. China Post is directly supervised by the State Post Bureau which has overall responsibility for regulating postal service in China. The State Post Bureau is an agency reporting to the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China.

Organizational structure

After the separation from the State Post Bureau and several re-organization, China Post is currently organized along the following structure.^[7]

General Office
Department of Strategic Planning (Legal Affairs)
Department of Market
Department of Financial Service
- Postal Savings Bank of China
- China Post Life Insurance
- China Post Securities
- China Post Capital Management
Department of Finance
Department of Human Resources
Department of Planning and Construction
Department of Procurement Management
Department of Audit
Department of Party Building Work
Office of Inspection
China Post Trade Union
Unit of Parcel, Express and Logistics Business (China Postal Express and Logistice Co., Ltd.)
China National Philatelic Corporation
China Post Culture and History Center (China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum)
China Post News Press
Postage Stamp Printing Bureau (Beijing Stamp Factory)
Shijiazhuang Posts and Telecommunications Technical College (China Post Training Center & Party School)
China Post Group IT (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
China Post E-commerce Co.
China Post Advertising Co., Ltd.
Other province-level, prefecture-level and county-level branches

China Post Service

International services for China Post include Small Parcel, Large Package and EMS. The Small parcel and large package of China Post can be tracked if registered. According to transportation methods, it can be divided into three categories: Air Parcel, Surface Air Lift (SAL) Parcel, and Surface Parcel. China Post air mail/parcel is the most popular because it is cheap and convenient. EMS is faster than China Post Mail but more expensive.^[8]

China Post does currently not offer shipping by boat to the United States from Mainland China. This policy went into effect November 2021.

Operations

Postal offices and branches: 373,600 (2019)
Mail processing centers: 236
First and second class truck route: 6.3 million kilometers (2014)
Transportation vehicles: 86,000 (2014)
Aircraft: 33 (2020)
Railway carriages: 174 (2014)
Letter sorting machines: 155
Automatic parcel sorting machines: 209
Computerized postal offices: 20,000

Notes and References

Web site: Top Officials of the State Post Bureau. State Post Bureau. October 31, 2008. September 6, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20120220110733/http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/folder12/2008/10/2008-10-3117996.html. February 20, 2012. dead.
Web site: Local Postal Administrations and Their Main Functions . State Post Bureau . October 31, 2008 . September 6, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090904092343/http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/folder12/2008/10/2008-10-3117994.html . September 4, 2009 . dead .
Web site: About Us. 2020-08-01. englishmake.chinapost.com.cn. 2021-02-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204700/http://englishmake.chinapost.com.cn/html1/folder/1408/3920-1.htm. live.
Web site: Robert Hart: a man of two worlds . www.sacu.org . 2015-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150812183309/http://sacu.org/hart.html . 2015-08-12 . dead .
Web site: CNAC History. 2014-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20161204043640/http://www.cnac.org/history01.htm. 2016-12-04. live.
Web site: Stinson Detroiter - Gregory Crouch. 12 December 2010. 2014-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20170326202217/http://gregcrouch.com/2010/stinson-detroiter. 2017-03-26. live.
Web site: China Post . 组织架构 - 中国邮政集团有限公司 . China Post . 5 February 2020 . zh-CN . 20 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191120102449/http://www.chinapost.com.cn/html1/folder/181312/8230-1.htm . live .
Web site: China Post Service. chinapostaltracking.com. 2019-12-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190420143451/https://www.chinapostaltracking.com/. 2019-04-20. live.