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On December 4, 2023, on the big screen of the express big data platform of the State Post Bureau, a long string of numbers kept scrolling. At 18:26, the screen flashed, and "120000000000" froze on the screen.
Thousands of miles away, a flower express sent from Kunming, Yunnan Province to Chengdu, Sichuan Province was grabbed and locked, becoming the 120 billion express delivery this year. With this moment as a symbol, the annual business volume of China's express delivery exceeded the 120 billion mark for the first time, setting a historical record.
The brief moment of digital transformation reflects the vigorous vitality of the development of the express delivery industry. What kind of concept is 120 billion pieces of express delivery?
Horizontally, 120 billion pieces, equivalent to 63% of the global express parcel business volume last year, is about 5% of the annual parcel volume of the United States last year5 times, 13 times in Japan3 times, 23 in the UK5 times, China has become the main engine leading the growth of global express business.
In the first 11 months of this year, China's average monthly express delivery business volume reached 10.7 billion pieces, more than the combined business volume of Britain and Germany last year. On top of the high base, the growth rate of China's express delivery business volume still maintains a leading position, about three times the global average.
Vertically, at present, China's monthly express business increment has exceeded the total amount of 2014, and has achieved a huge leap from "annual average 10 billion" to "monthly average 10 billion".
Since 2021, China's express delivery has entered the era of "100 billion pieces", and the time taken to break 100 billion pieces every year has been continuously shortened - breaking 100 billion pieces in 2022 is 7 days earlier than in 2021; On top of that, this year is 39 days earlier than last year. With the continuous increase in the volume of express business, the increase brought by the growth rate of each percentage point in China is equivalent to the total amount in 2007.
Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, courier brother delivered to home. The express delivery industry is connected to production and consumption, which is a "barometer" that reflects economic vitality. Where did 120 billion pieces come from? Through the "100 billion journey" of a bouquet of flowers, China's consumption momentum and industrial upgrading can be seen.
The sender of the 120 billion express delivery came from the Dounan Flower Market, which is known as the "largest flower market in Asia". "I used to sell to wholesalers and couldn't get a price. Mu Shunlin, the owner of the flower shop, said that now the flower market has built a live broadcast base, and the flowers are picked from the production area and delivered to the home through online sales, which not only keeps them fresh but also increases income.
A similar scene is being played out in the country's major agricultural producing areas. Dandong strawberries and Shandong seafood all the way to the south, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and Xiangshan "red beauty" speed up to the north...Taking advantage of the east wind of "Internet +", more fresh food from the north and south is "going in both directions" on the express logistics network. The numbers speak for themselves. In the first 10 months, the national online retail sales reached 123 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 112%, and the contribution rate of physical network zero to the zero growth of the society reached 321%。
China's logistics and e-commerce, the "strongest combination", met in China's 120 billion express delivery, and the two worked together to promote the number of express delivery and consumer demand to achieve double growth.
From the demand side, the 120 billion express delivery reflects that China's consumption scale continues to expand, and the potential of domestic demand is being released at an accelerated pace; From the supply side, the 120 billion express delivery also records the continuous improvement of industry infrastructure and the acceleration of industrial upgrading.
The transportation mode of the 120 billion express delivery adopts a new mode of high-speed rail freight. At dusk, the same batch of express mail was loaded onto the train by SF Express and arrived at the railway station of Kunming Luoyang Town Station. After unloading and transshipment, all of them were loaded onto the EMU and went straight to Chengdu Shuangliu West Station, which is 1,127 kilometers away. After arriving at the station at 10:30 a.m. the next day, it will be transmitted, transported, transferred, and finally delivered to the home by the courier brother, and the whole process of pickup takes only 21 hours.
China Express and China High-speed Railway, two beautiful "Chinese business cards", the intersection of the 120 billion express mail in China, completed a "dream linkage", and became a vivid epitome of the acceleration and upgrading of the express delivery industry.
Looking at the network of express logistics today, on the main artery, there are more than 400 express professional logistics parks and more than 3,000 various distribution centers, connecting the express service network of more than 48.7 million kilometers one-way and serving more than 700 million people per day; In the microcirculation, there are more than 900 county-level delivery and distribution centers, 2780,000 village-level delivery service outlets, basically realizing full coverage of townships and towns, and strongly supporting the rapid circulation of more than 100 million express delivery items in rural areas every day
From the next day's delivery and the next morning's half-day delivery, from entering the village, entering the factory to going to sea, from getting on the bus, taking a plane to taking a high-speed rail, the delivery speed is constantly refreshing, the service tentacles continue to be extended, and the express delivery capacity is accelerating and growing, which also creates more new experiences, more new scenes, and more new needs for the consumer market. From this point of view, behind the "100 billion journey" of a bouquet of flowers, there is also a higher level of dynamic balance between demand driving supply and supply creating demand.
It's the middle of winter, and the temperature has plummeted. In the cold wind, freight trucks frequently shuttle between cities, and a courier brother is still running in the streets and alleys. Every trajectory drawn in the snow outlines a vibrant and vibrant China, and every package that arrives on schedule is the bubbling warm current of China's economy.