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Native name | 中国邮政集团有限公司 |
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| 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 | USD 89.347 billion |
| USD 4.4409 billion (2020) | |
| Owner | People's Republic of China |
Number of employees | 927,171 (2020) |
| Parent | State Council via the Ministry of Finance |
| Subsidiaries | China Postal Airlines Postal Savings Bank of China China National Philatelic Corporation Post Mart |
| Website | www |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 中国邮政 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國郵政 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | China Post | ||||||||
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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.
The Customs Post Office of the Qing dynasty was established in 1878 by Robert Hart[4] at the suggestion of the foreign powers[citation needed], 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.[citation needed]
The current postal service of People's Republic of China was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Postinmainland 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]
After the separation from the State Post Bureau and several re-organization, China Post is currently organized along the following structure.[7]
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.[citation needed]
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