China's express delivery volume totaled 80.16 billion pieces in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 23.1 percent, the State Post Bureau reported on Monday.
In the first half of the year, the total volume of intra-city express delivery business was 7.42 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 20.6 percent, according to the Bureau's data. The total volume of inter-city express delivery business reached 71.09 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 23.4 percent, and the total volume of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business was 1.65 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 21 percent.
In the first six months, the postal industry's business income (excluding the direct operating income of the Postal Savings Bank) totaled 806.36 billion yuan (about 111 billion U.S. dollars), a year-on-year increase of 10.6 percent. Among them, the business income from express delivery totaled 653 billion yuan (about 89.9 billion U.S. dollars), a year-on-year increase of 15.1 percent.
In the first half of the year, the proportion of express delivery business handled in the eastern, central and western Chinese regions was 73, 18.5 and 8.5 percent respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the proportion of express delivery business in the eastern region dropped by 2.2 percentage points, while the proportion of express delivery business in the central and western regions increased by 1.3 and 0.9 percentage points respectively.
China's express delivery grows 23.1 pct in H1
