The annual business volume of China's express delivery exceeded 120 billion pieces, setting a new record high!
Recently, the real-time monitoring data of the express big data platform of the State Post Bureau showed that an express package sent from Kunming, Yunnan Province to Chengdu, Sichuan Province has become the 120 billion express mail in 2023, which is also the first time that China's express delivery business volume has exceeded 120 billion pieces since 2021 after breaking through the 100 billion mark for three consecutive years.
The express delivery industry has entered a new stage of "high-quality development", and unmanned delivery applications are becoming popular.
The relevant person in charge of the State Post Bureau said that the express "small parcel" reflects the good trend of the economy and the strong development potential of China's express delivery industry. In recent years, China's express delivery business volume has achieved a huge leap from "10 billion per year" to "10 billion per month", and has also shifted from the stage of "rapid growth" to the stage of "high-quality development". This is the requirement of the development of the express industry itself, and it is also the inevitable path to adapt to the changes of the times.
According to the trends** of relevant institutions, the global terminal distribution market is expected to reach $424.3 billion by 2030. Among them, the scale of China's express terminal distribution market is about 130 billion yuan, and the instant distribution market size is about 320 billion yuan. These figures show the "great potential" of China's distribution market. Therefore, in addition to Internet giants such as JD.com, Meituan, and Alibaba, there are also Neolithic and other science and technology enterprises that have "bet heavily" on the unmanned delivery track early.
According to the "Social Blue Book" released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the weekly working hours of couriers in the traditional industry have reached 707 hours, perennial ranked in the top three of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's "most scarce" occupations. The problem of labor scarcity has become a "capacity bottleneck" for traditional logistics enterprises. Professionals**, there will be a manpower gap of more than 5 million in the distribution industry in the next ten years. Liu Mingmin, chief marketing officer of Neolithic unmanned vehicles, added, "This is just a business opportunity for us to see that if Neolithic can create a product that can help couriers quickly improve efficiency, then the whole industry will change dramatically." The founders and most of the employees of Neolithic have gone to the front line, incarnating as sorters and couriers for up to 3-4 months, sorting and delivering couriers with them. We found that the courier spends more than two hours a day on the way to and from the road, which is a highly repetitive job, and the unmanned vehicle is undoubtedly a good solution to become a capacity tool for terminal distribution. ”
Fortunately, in recent years, the logistics industry and consumers' recognition of unmanned vehicles are obvious to all. The relevant person in charge of Wuxi Express Association said that the logistics terminal distribution service model continues to innovate, and a large number of applications of unmanned vehicles, drones and smart cabinets have made the logistics industry experience unprecedented changes and gradually transform from a "labor-intensive" industry to a "smart" industry. Especially this year, the order volume of unmanned delivery has shown a rapid upward trend, and unmanned vehicles are also loved by more and more users as a member of the "new infrastructure" of smart cities.
Unmanned vehicles have been launched on a large scale in many outlets, and the delivery efficiency of couriers has been greatly accelerated.
Now walking on the streets of Wuxi, I can always pass by these cute "unmanned cars". Ms. Su from Wuxi couldn't help but sigh, "I thought that this year's Double 11 express delivery would have to be a variety of 'traffic jams', but I didn't expect to go out recently, and every day I would see unmanned vehicles delivering full packages to the post station." Despite its small size, its capacity is surprisingly large, and the overhead lidar can "see six ways and hear all directions". Liu Mingmin told reporters that these unmanned vehicles can carefully plan the distribution route and achieve 24-hour uninterrupted operation, and the work of short barge transit transportation from the outlets to the post station after 12 o'clock at night can be handed over to them.
Every double. Ten.
1. Double 12, are our busiest time, before everyone took turns to go to the business point to pick up the goods, this year there are unmanned vehicles to deliver to us, just to solve the problem of lack of manpower. According to the staff of Shunyi Lixi Garden SF outlets, in September this year, we introduced 8 neolithic unmanned vehicles to serve the connection of 4 express outlets, these unmanned vehicles go back and forth 4 times a day, and the car can be loaded with 3 cubic meters of goods, and more than 200 small express deliveries can be loaded. The reporter followed the unmanned vehicle to the station near the village of West Magezhuang, where five couriers successively took away the express delivery in their respective areas, and put the collected express into the unmanned vehicle, and it will automatically return to the business point.
Hangzhou Post Binjiang District postal brother is also full of praise for it, "now I am like an assistant, I used to go out of work can not bring so much mail, a day to run back and forth three or four times, now I only need to put the big mail in the unmanned car, it will be automatically sent to the point near my delivery area, and I only need to take small and light pieces out of the shift, wait for their mail to finish, do not need to go back to the site, go directly to the unmanned car on the line." ”
Compared with the courier brother, consumers seem to have "bonded" with unmanned vehicles earlier. Aunt Wang, who lives in Daxiong City Garden in Yizhuang, Beijing, was deeply touched. She recalled that during the epidemic last year, my wife and I were affected in our daily shopping, but fortunately, there were unmanned vehicles into the community to deliver masks, fruit and vegetable products, which solved our urgent needs. After the epidemic, the unmanned car has become a "courier's little follower", going back and forth to the streets and alleys of Yizhuang every day. Once I saw it on the road, I couldn't help but wonder if the toy I just bought for my grandson was in their "belly" at the moment.
At present, we have obtained the first batch of road license plates in Beijing, Hainan, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other provinces and cities, and more than 2,000 vehicles have been delivered and deployed worldwide. Liu Mingmin said frankly that now Neolithic has formed a strategic pattern of unmanned distribution, unmanned retail, and coordinated development of urban services, and with the increasing scale of vehicle deployment, more and more abundant scene data, the company's technology iteration efficiency has also been greatly accelerated, and has realized the leapfrog development of distributed architecture to domain control architecture and then to central computing architecture, so that each generation of vehicles can greatly improve performance in the case of achieving more than 30% cost reduction.
Unmanned vehicles may become the fastest choice for the logistics industry to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
As an effective supplement to the city's terminal distribution capacity, in order to lay unmanned vehicles on a large scale, in addition to the factors at the level of policies, laws and regulations, cost and efficiency are also important considerations for logistics companies to choose cooperation. Liu Mingmin emphasized that when the cost of unmanned vehicle delivery is lower than the labor cost and the efficiency is effectively improved, the business model can be considered to be completely run through.
A logistics industry insider said that the current operation and management of logistics companies are becoming more and more "unmanned", but the end of the distribution link is still highly dependent on labor, as the highest cost link in the entire logistics chain, the end of the distribution has become the force of enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Unmanned vehicles are expected to become the fastest choice for reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the entire logistics industry.
Looking at the express delivery industry in recent years, it is not difficult to find that many express delivery companies, including SF, JD.com, and Tongda, have carried out unmanned distribution business in outlets in different cities. And with the large-scale use of unmanned vehicles, more and more couriers have really felt the great acceleration of delivery efficiency. The courier brother of an outlet in Changzhou has a lot of experience, "I have to send about 150 tickets a day, and I used to need to go back and forth between the outlet and the post station at least 4 times." Now with the addition of unmanned vehicles, you only need to wait for the loading and unloading truck at the connection point according to the software terminal prompts, and you can send parts for more than 2 hours saved every day, and the delivery efficiency is increased by 2 to 3 times. The person in charge of an outlet in Yancheng also said, "The introduction of neolithic unmanned vehicles, each vehicle can send 500-800 orders per day, which can probably help the outlet handle one-tenth of the business volume." Next year, we plan to add hundreds of units to further release the labor force of the courier brother. ”
The first economic work conference just held emphasized that it is necessary to lead the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation, and to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, especially to promote new industries, new models and new kinetic energy with disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies, and to develop new quality productive forces. The clear signal released by this policy has once again boosted the confidence of technology companies. As the pioneer of the unmanned distribution track, Neolithic will take advantage of this shareholder wind to seize the opportunity and occupy a new highland in the market. Liu Mingmin added: "In 2021, we took the lead in building a model room for the commercial operation of unmanned vehicles in China with the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone as a windowIn recent years, we have successively opened the 'door' of Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hefei and other cities, which is only the first step to complete the company's strategic deploymentNext, Neolithic will take "scientific and technological innovation, resource digitization, and digital industrialization" as the core, and continue to consolidate these sample projects to form a new template that can be replicated and promoted, so that the application of unmanned vehicles will continue to go deeper and more practical, and make every effort to sprint towards the goal of "from 1000 to 10000", so that people can enjoy their travel, things flow smoothly, and everyone can enjoy the new services brought by autonomous driving.
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