Source: State Post Bureau
On December 29, 2021, an aircraft conducted a verification flight at Huahu Airport in Ezhou, Hubei Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu
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The express delivery industry not only runs through the production, distribution, circulation and consumption links, but also links the first, second, and third industries. In 2021, the mainland express delivery business reached 108.3 billion pieces, an increase of 29.9% year-on-year. The vigorous development of the express delivery industry is not only conducive to the manufacturing industry to achieve cost reduction and efficiency through the integration of the two industries, but also helps "domestic goods to go to sea" in the pace of going out, supports the flow of cross-border goods more conveniently, and brings more opportunities inside and outside the industry.
108.3 billion pieces!
The reporter learned from the State Post Bureau that in 2021, the mainland express delivery business volume reached 108.3 billion pieces, an increase of 29.9% year-on-year, and the number of parcels accounted for more than half of the world.
108.3 billion express deliveries, connecting thousands of households. In the far east, it was sent to Xiaohezi Village in Fuyuan County, Heilongjiang; to the west, it reached Smhana Village in Ucha County, Xinjiang; to the southernmost, it came to Yongxing Island in Sansha City, Hainan Province; and in the far north, it flew to The Arctic Village in Mohe City, Heilongjiang.
108.3 billion pieces of express delivery, trekking thousands of mountains and rivers. At the foot of Mount Everest, at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level in Tashi Zongxiang, Dingri County, Tibet, the courier's persistence allows express parcels from The North, Shanghai and Guangzhou to arrive in as soon as 5 days. From Shenzhen to Los Angeles, one express delivery after another can be delivered on the next day even if it crosses the Pacific Ocean.
The express delivery industry not only runs through the production, distribution, circulation and consumption links, but also links the first, second, and third industries. What kind of vitality has the booming express delivery industry injected into the economic development? What development opportunities have been brought in inside and outside the industry? The reporter takes you to take stock of the new progress of China's express delivery industry in 2021.
Look at investment ——
More opportunities inside and outside the industry
At about 12:00 on December 29, 2021, the "Award C-560" aircraft landed smoothly on the runway, leaving the first aircraft tire mark. This means that after 4 years of construction, Hubei Ezhou Huahu Airport is about to start calibration flights, which is one step closer to official operation.
Ezhou Huahu Airport is jointly funded by SF Group and Hubei Province, with a total investment of 32.063 billion yuan. Among them, the investment in airport engineering is only 15.857 billion yuan, the investment in the transshipment center project is 11.529 billion yuan, and the investment in the base project of SF Airlines is 3.752 billion yuan.
As the first professional cargo airport in China, Ezhou Huahu Airport is also the first airport to be deeply branded with the mark of "express delivery". It is a well-deserved "major project" in China's express delivery industry in recent years, and it is also the first time that Chinese express delivery companies have extended their investment field to airports.
All this stems from the rapid development of the industry and from the high demand of consumers for timeliness. With Ezhou as the center, the 1.5-hour flight circle can cover 80% of the country's population, and it can reach major domestic airports in one night and major airports in the world the next day.
"After the operation of Ezhou Huahu Airport in June 2022, SF Airlines will form an aviation network with Huahu Airport as the core hub and Beijing, Shenzhen and Hangzhou as the regional hubs." The relevant person in charge of SF Airlines said that by 2030, the annual cargo and mail throughput of Ezhou Huahu Airport is expected to reach 3.3 million tons.
SF Airlines strides forward, and other express delivery companies also accelerate their progress. By the end of 2021, there will be more than 130 special freighters for express delivery, Jiangsu Jingdong Cargo Airlines has been approved for construction, and more than 1,500 high-speed rail transport express lines.
If it is said that the express delivery company's efforts to carry out cargo aviation still represent the investment opportunities within the industry, the story of Zhongke Weizhi symbolizes the new opportunities brought by the express delivery industry to related industries.
On October 26, 2021, Zhongke Weizhi Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Jiangsu Co., Ltd., which has been established for only 5 years, successfully landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
"The rise of the express delivery industry has given the logistics equipment industry an opportunity for rapid development." Li Gongyan, head of Zhongke Microzhi Enterprise, said. In 2016, as the volume of express delivery business continued to change, hundreds of millions of express mail volume could not rely on manual sorting to achieve, and the express delivery industry urgently needed to be boosted by science and technology.
The emergence of Zhongke Microzhi is timely. At that time, although foreign technology was mature, a set of smart devices often cost tens of millions of yuan to discourage express delivery companies. The price of Zhongke Micro-to-equipment is only 1/4 of the imported equipment.
The huge market demand and huge price advantage made Zhongke Microzhi quickly gain a foothold, and China Post, SF, and "Four Links and One Reach" all became its customers. By the end of 2021, Zhongke Micro has delivered a total of 300 sets of cross-belt sorting systems.
Nowadays, the domestic logistics equipment that has been trained in actual combat has taken a new step towards going global. By the end of 2021, Zhongke Weizhi's products have been exported to many countries and regions. Next, the company will continue to strengthen the construction of overseas market channels and continuously expand new markets.
Look at the fusion -
Help the manufacturing industry reduce costs and increase efficiency
"Dingdong", AstraZeneca Wuxi supply base received a new order.
At the same time, Qian Lu, a staff member of SF DHL supply chain, also received a notification message. Only to see her log in to the inventory system, select the order product, and the processing is completed immediately. At the same time, in the elevated three-dimensional warehouse of AstraZeneca's Wuxi supply base, the orange elevator automatically runs to the drug storage location, takes out the ordered medicine with a tray, and places it on the conveyor belt and sends it to the delivery area. From the arrival of the order to the successful delivery, it takes only 20 minutes.
This efficiency stems from the deep integration of manufacturing and express delivery. AstraZeneca Wuxi Supply Base connects the SF DHL supply chain to its own order system and entrusts the elevated three-dimensional warehouse to the overall management of the SF DHL supply chain. "In the past, AstraZeneca shipped only 2,000 or 3,000 boxes a day, but now relying on advanced technology and embedded management mode, under the collaborative management of express delivery and manufacturing, the elevated stereoscopic library can ship up to 20,000 or 30,000 boxes a day, and the efficiency has been greatly improved." The relevant person in charge of the supply chain of SF DHL said.
In Suning Logistics, the services of express delivery companies are more extended to the after-sales links of the manufacturing industry.
Deng Shuangcheng, a logistics distributor at Suning, recently had a new identity - an installer. As long as it is a delivery of the study table, he is not only responsible for home delivery, but also package installation.
"Suning Logistics is organizing couriers to carry out training such as installation and maintenance, and fully participate in the after-sales service of the product." Dou Yao, general manager of Wuxi Suning Logistics, said.
More and more cases of "express delivery into the factory" show that express delivery companies are not limited to simply providing product delivery services, but try to embed facilities, systems and services into the production, sales and even after-sales links of manufacturing enterprises, becoming an inseparable part of the manufacturing production and circulation process.
"The integration of the express delivery industry and the manufacturing industry is conducive to helping manufacturing enterprises to focus more on the core links such as design, research and development and production, improve logistics efficiency, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency." Zhao Xiaomin, deputy director of the Postal Express Special Committee of the Shanghai Communications Commission, said that at the same time, cooperation with manufacturing enterprises can also promote express delivery companies to improve their integrated supply chain service capabilities and accelerate the transformation to integrated express logistics operators.
According to data from the State Post Bureau, in 2021, "express delivery into the factory" achieved a new breakthrough, and 1908 express delivery service manufacturing projects with business income of more than one million yuan have been created.
Look at cross-border --
Open up the "last mile" of direct operation
On January 1, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) officially entered into force, and Ren Jiabin became more and more busy.
According to the RCEP, customs clearance time for fresh goods such as seafood, fruits and vegetables is compressed to less than 6 hours. As the head of supply chain at ZTO International Southeast Asia Management Center, Ren Jiabin's task is to make good use of policies to make Myanmar blue crabs achieve two-day delivery.
In Myanmar, Zhongtong couriers are both pickers and buyers. Every morning, the courier goes to the supplier's crab pond to select green crabs weighing 400 grams to 500 grams and packs and sorts them. As night fell, the green crabs were transported to the distribution center to prepare to "board" the charter flight. The next day, the batch of green crabs will be transported to Kunming Changshui Airport and Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, and then distributed to major domestic supermarkets.
"The eve of the Spring Festival is the time when the meat of Myanmar green crab is at its fullest, and it is also the peak season for trading." Ren Jiabin said that thanks to air express transportation and professional cold chain equipment, about 5 tons of Myanmar blue crabs are freshly delivered to consumers' tables through the ZTO international supply chain every day. In the future, the product category will also expand to high-quality products in Southeast Asia such as coconut green, durian and longan.
Express delivery cross-border, "buy global" is more convenient, "sell global" is also more convenient.
In the early stage of "Double 11" in 2021, Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.'s 7 distribution centers in Liege, Belgium, Madrid, Spain, Paris, France, Bremen, Germany, Rome, Italy, Budapest, Hungary, and Moscow, Russia, were all officially put into operation. Not only that, Cainiao has also launched more than 300 charter flights, with a cargo capacity of more than 30,000 tons, helping Chinese cross-border merchants to achieve "domestic goods going to sea".
In Southeast Asia, with the establishment of the direct sales network of Chinese express delivery companies, there are new solutions to the "last mile" delivery problem that cross-border merchants are most worried about.
"In preparation for the 'Double 11', we temporarily added 2,000 employees to the Bangkok transit center and stockpiled more than 500 additional vehicles." Liu Qianli, brand manager of Jitu International Thailand, introduced that during the "Double 11" period in 2021, the number of parcels in Thailand doubled, many of which came from Chinese merchants.
Up to now, Jitu International's express delivery business has covered Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and other countries; Zhongtong International has opened more than 120 first-level outlets in Vietnam, with a service coverage rate of up to 95%, and nearly 150 first-level outlets and second-level outlets in Cambodia, with about 500 couriers.
Take orders with one hand and send them to the world with the other. In recent years, mainland express delivery enterprises have accelerated their overseas layout, and have built 240 overseas warehouses with an area of nearly 2 million square meters.
Source: People's Daily
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