China Post
China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, 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
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 operates under the State Council 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
- 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 National Philatelic Corporation
- China Post Culture and History Center
- China Post News Press
- Postage Stamp Printing Bureau
- Shijiazhuang Posts and Telecommunications Technical College
- China Post Group IT Co., Ltd.
- China Post E-commerce Co.
- China Post Advertising Co., Ltd.
- Other province-level, prefecture-level and county-level branches
China Post Service
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
- Mail processing centers: 236
- First and second class truck route: 6.3 million kilometers
- Transportation vehicles: 86,000
- Aircraft: 33
- Railway carriages: 174
- Letter sorting machines: 155
- Automatic parcel sorting machines: 209
- Computerized postal offices: 20,000