China Post

This article is about the postal service corporation on mainland China. For the national regulator for postal businesses, see State Post Bureau. For the postal service provider on Taiwan, see Chunghwa Post.

China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation,^[4] is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated as a state-owned enterprise.

China Post Group Corporation

Headquarters in Beijing, China
Native name	中国邮政集团有限公司
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Courier
Founded	1949
Founder	Government of China
Headquarters	No. A3 Jinrong Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Area served	Mainland China[1]
Key people	Ma Junsheng, Director-General As of 31 October 2008[update][2]
Services	Letter post, parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding, third-party logistics, deposit account
Revenue	US$ 112.8 billion (2023)[3]
Net income	US$ 5.9 billion (2023)[3]
Total assets	US$ 2,310.6 billion (2023)[3]
Owner	People's Republic of China
Number of employees	728,776 (2023)[3]
Parent	State Council via the Ministry of Finance
Subsidiaries	China Postal Airlines Postal Savings Bank of China China National Philatelic Corporation Post Mart
Website	english.chinapost.com.cn

China Post Group Company
Simplified Chinese	中国邮政集团有限公司
Traditional Chinese	中國郵政集團有限公司
Literal meaning	China Postal Services Group Limited Corporation
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Yóuzhèng Jítuán Yoǔxiàn Gōngsī
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国邮政
Traditional Chinese	中國郵政
Literal meaning	China Post
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Yóuzhèng IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ jǒʊʈʂə̂ŋ]

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

History

Main article: Postage stamps and postal history of China

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.^{[citation needed]}

Organizational structure

A China Post postbox in Shanghai

After the separation from the State Post Bureau and several re-organization, China Post is currently organized along the following structure.^[5]

• 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.^[6]

The average delivery speed depends on the type of service and the trade and communication links with the destination country of the cargo or parcel. For instance, the delivery time for cargo from China to the USA, regardless of the service type, is approximately 19 days.

China Post does currently not offer shipping by boat to the United States from Mainland China. This policy went into effect November 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Operations

A mail truck in Beijing

A postal car towing trailers with mail, at a train station,
notice that the right side door signage is transposed:
CHINA POST
TSOP ANIHC

China Post logo with (New) Tai Lü script in Mohan, Yunnan

• 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

See also

• State Post Bureau
• Hongkong Post
• CTT (Macau)
• Chunghwa Post
• Chinese postal romanization
• China Postal Savings Bank
• China Postal Airlines
• List of postal entities
• List of national postal services
• Universal Postal Union