China Post, legally the China Post Group Corporation ( zh, 中国邮政集团有限公司,

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: ''Zhōngguó yóuzhèng jítuán yǒuxiàn gōngsī''), is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which provides the service in

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

, excluding its special administrative regions,

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and

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, which have their own postal service independent of the mainland's. The Corporation officially shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency

State Post Bureau The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post, the postal service of the People's Republic of China. The agency used to report to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is now under the administratio ...

which regulates the national postal industry theoretically including the corporation.

History

The Customs Post Office of the

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was established in 1878 by Robert Hart at the suggestion of the foreign powers, 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 Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. is the official postal service of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China). Chunghwa Post was a government agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications until 2003, when it was reorganized into a governm ...

in 1912. Chunghwa postal service had signed a contract with the China Airways Federal group in 1929 to transport airmail on the Shanghai-Hankow, Nanjing-Beijing, and Hankow-Guangzhou routes. Chunghwa Post had functioned as the main postal service provider of

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until 1949. The current postal service of

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

was established in 1949. It replaced the

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

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.

Organizational structure

After the separation from the State Post Bureau and several re-organization, China Post is currently organized along the following structure. * 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. China post does currently not offer shipping by boat to the United States from Mainland China. This policy went into effect November 2021.

Operations

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VM 5485 China Post Office car at Zhengzhou Train Station

* 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

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