China Post, full name China Post Group Corporation is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which provides the service in mainland China, excluding its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau, which have their own postal service independent to the mainland's. 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.
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History
The postal service in China can be dated back to the Shang Dynasty. The Customs Post Office of the Qing Empire 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 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 Mainland China until 1949.
The current postal service of People's Republic of China was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Post in mainland China 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 State Post Bureau of the PRC 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.
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Organizational structure
China Post is organized along the following organizational structure.
- Post bureaus at provincial, autonomous region and municipality level (31)
- Post bureaus in provincial capitals and other big cities
- Post bureaus at county level
Operations
- Postal offices and branches: 82,116
- Mail processing centers: 236
- First and second class truck route: 3.1 million kilometers
- Transportation vehicles: 39,000
- Aircraft: 5
- Railway carriages: 73
- 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
References
External links
- China Post (in Chinese)
- China Post
- China Postal Express & Logistics Company (in English)
- PRC State Post Bureau, China Post (in simplified Chinese)
- Message from the Director General
- Provide Feedback to the Secretary Director Ma Junshang (in Chinese)
- Imperial China postal history
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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