China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, is the national postal service corporation of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It is incorporated as a

state-owned enterprise A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity created or owned by a national or local government, either through an executive order or legislation. SOEs aim to generate profit for the government, prevent private sector monopolies, provide goo ...

. China Post shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency

State Post Bureau The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post, the postal service of China. The agency was created in 1998 as a successor to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. The agency used to report to the Ministry of ...

, which regulates the national postal industry.

History

The current postal service of

was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Post in

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in 1949, as well as in the

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in 1972. It was formerly administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. China Post is directly supervised by the

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. * 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. 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.

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

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