China Post
Ministry of Finance | |
Subsidiaries | China Postal Airlines Postal Savings Bank of China China National Philatelic Corporation Post Mart |
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Website | ChinaPost.com.cn |
China Post Group Company | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngguó Yóuzhèng |
IPA | [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ jǒʊʈʂə̂ŋ] |
China Post, legally the China Post Group Corporation[3] (simplified Chinese: 中国邮政集团有限公司; traditional Chinese: 中國郵政集團有限公司; pinyin: Zhōngguó yóuzhèng jítuán yǒuxiàn gōngsī[4]), is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which provides the service on Mainland China, excluding its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, which have their own postal service independent of the mainland's. Postal services on island of Taiwan, which is claimed as part of China but not controlled by it, are provided by Chunghwa Post.
The Corporation officially shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau which regulates the national postal industry theoretically including the corporation.
History
The Customs Post Office of the
The current postal service of
Organizational structure
After the separation from the State Post Bureau and several re-organization, China Post is currently organized along the following structure.[8]
- 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.[9]
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
- 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
References
- ^ "Local Postal Administrations and Their Main Functions". State Post Bureau. October 31, 2008. Archived from the original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
- ^ "Top Officials of the State Post Bureau". State Post Bureau. October 31, 2008. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
- ^ "About Us". englishmake.chinapost.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ "中国邮政集团有限公司改制公告 (Announcement on the restructure of China Post Group Company)". Archived from the original on 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- ^ "Robert Hart: a man of two worlds". www.sacu.org. Archived from the original on 2015-08-12. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^ "CNAC History". Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
- ^ "Stinson Detroiter - Gregory Crouch". 12 December 2010. Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
- ^ China Post. "组织架构 - 中国邮政集团有限公司". China Post (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original on 20 November 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ "China Post Service". chinapostaltracking.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
External links
- China Post (in Chinese)
- China Post (in English)
- China Post international parcel tracking (in English)
- China Postal Express & Logistics Company (in English)
- PRC State Post Bureau, China Post (in Chinese)
- Message from the Director General
- Provide Feedback to the Secretary Director Ma Junshang (in Chinese)
- Imperial China postal history