The latest data released by the State Post Bureau shows that in the first 10 months of this year, the cumulative volume of express delivery services in China reached 162.68 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16.1%. Entering October, e-commerce platforms launched major promotions one after another, and the peak season characteristics of the express delivery industry gradually emerged. The peak daily business volume during the peak season reached 777 million pieces, breaking the record for daily business volume. The express delivery industry connects thousands of cities and industries, serves thousands of households, and integrates supply and demand. It has become an important force in promoting industrial upgrading, comprehensive rural revitalization, and improving people's livelihoods. ”At the recently held 2025 (6th) Express Industry Conference, Gao Hongfeng, President of the China Express Association, stated that China's express delivery business volume has once again reached a peak, which not only demonstrates the good trend of stable growth in the consumer market and steady economic progress, but also reflects the important role played by the postal express industry in serving the construction of a unified national market. Currently, the industry is at a critical stage of transitioning from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and from large to strong. The market size remains the world's largest, and this year's "Double 11" e-commerce platform promotion came earlier than in previous years. After the National Day, with the promotion of e-commerce such as Tiktok, Jingdong and Taobao, the express industry across the country also ushered in the annual business peak season. Monitoring data shows that in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, from 20:00 on October 20th to 18:00 on November 13th, the Yiwu Comprehensive Bonded Zone has accumulated over 10.8 million cross-border e-commerce small package shipments, an increase of over 40% compared to last year; In Qingdao, Shandong Province, from October 21st to November 11th, the daily average number of express packages received and dispatched in the city exceeded 10 million, with a total increase of over 5 million compared to the same period last year. The highest daily delivery volume increased by 22.49%; In Urumqi, Xinjiang, from October 21st to November 11th, the daily average collection volume of the city reached 1.2708 million pieces, which is 138.57% of the daily business volume. The continuous record breaking volume of parcels during the peak season of express delivery business demonstrates the important role of China's postal and express delivery industry in supporting consumption upgrading and real economy growth. ”Xie Momei, Deputy Director of the Business Department of the Development Research Center of the State Post Bureau, stated that globally, the proportion of China's express parcel business in the global market has increased to 65%, becoming a key engine for the expansion of the global express parcel market. The recently released Global Express Development Report (2025) (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") shows that in 2024, the global express parcel business volume is about 267.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17.49%; The business revenue was approximately 4603.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.05%. Among them, the volume of express parcel business in China was 175.08 billion, a year-on-year increase of 21.5%; The business revenue was 1403.35 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.8%. The scale of China's express parcel market has remained the world's largest for 11 consecutive years, achieving a leapfrog development with an average of billions of parcels per month, demonstrating the strong resilience and development potential of the Chinese market. According to the report, the ratio of global express parcel market revenue to global GDP will increase from 0.56% in 2022 to approximately 0.58% in 2024, continuously enhancing its driving effect on global economic development. Against the backdrop of rapid development of e-commerce, the express delivery industry has provided fundamental services and promoted consumer circulation. The global per capita use of express packages has risen to 33, a year-on-year increase of 16%. The report predicts that the global express delivery market's business volume is expected to exceed 300 billion pieces this year, and the business revenue is expected to exceed 5 trillion yuan. Xie Momei believes that in the future, the new generation of information technology and intelligent equipment will accelerate deep integration with delivery enterprises, and the European and American markets will maintain low-speed growth. The Latin American market is still a blue ocean for accelerated expansion, and cross-border business may become a breakthrough point for the layout of the Middle East and African markets. Accelerating the application of smart devices during the peak season of express delivery business is also an annual 'stress test'. This also prompts various express delivery companies to increase resource investment, ensuring synchronous improvement of service efficiency and quality while the business volume surges. At around 2pm, Zhongtong Express Zhejiang Tonglu Transfer Center has completed the second wave of sorting operations for the day. After packing the package, the courier drove the tricycle to deliver it. At this moment, the Neolithic unmanned delivery vehicle with flashing "big eyes" also arrived at the front of the pier. The operator quickly loaded the package into the carriage, took out his phone to confirm the departure, and the unmanned delivery vehicle smoothly went to work. This year's' Double 11 'peak season, we not only updated our sorting equipment with 231 intelligent sorting gates, but also achieved normalized operation of unmanned delivery vehicles, greatly improving efficiency. ”Tang Rong, the manager of Zhongtong Express Zhejiang Tonglu branch, told reporters that with the continuous increase in express delivery business volume, the pressure on end of pipe services is also increasing. After the unmanned delivery vehicle was put on duty, it took on the transportation from the sorting center to the express station, reducing the workload of the delivery staff and allowing them more time to devote to door-to-door delivery services. The deployment of unmanned delivery vehicles has greatly reduced the operating costs at the end of the line. Lan Shuxin, the head of the Jinghe County branch of Zhongtong Express in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, introduced that this year the branch has deployed unmanned delivery vehicles, which can deliver more than 800 packages per day. This not only improves the frequency and timeliness of services in remote rural areas, but also saves nearly 2000 yuan in fuel costs per month compared to traditional transportation methods. The use of drones at the end of express delivery has broken through distance limitations and extended to feeder transportation. On October 9th, JD Logistics opened a drone route from Chengdu to Dazhou, compressing the time between the two places to within 2 hours and shortening the transportation time by more than 50% compared to traditional land transportation. Intelligent express transportation equipment is also constantly sinking and gradually becoming a standard configuration for county-level branches. Last year, we moved to the express delivery industry park with a new site covering an area of 4000 square meters, "said Jiang Long, the person in charge of Yunda Anhui Bozhou Guangming Road branch. After moving into the new site, we invested in and introduced a two-layer circular intersection sorting equipment with 260 compartments, completely changing the limitations of relying on manual sorting. The timely collection rate and customer satisfaction have been greatly improved. Developing new quality productivity is an inherent requirement and important focus for the high-quality development of the express delivery industry, which has pointed out the direction for the industry's development. ”Gao Hongfeng believes that we must adhere to placing technological innovation at the core, accelerate the intelligent upgrading of sorting equipment and transportation vehicles, and promote the large-scale application of intelligent cloud warehouses, unmanned distribution, and low altitude logistics. Empowering the entire industry chain with artificial intelligence, seeking efficiency, capability, and service quality from technology, improving the level of industry informatization and intelligence, reducing logistics costs for the whole society, and injecting express delivery momentum into building a modern industrial system. Wang Xianjin, Vice President and Chief Engineer of the Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, stated that in the next step, we will strive to obtain support from the national science and technology plan to implement a number of major and key projects, including major scientific and technological breakthroughs in intelligent comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, transportation infrastructure safety resilience and intelligent control, and smart transportation and logistics, providing stronger technical support for the high-quality development of the express delivery industry. The significant effectiveness of integrated development is evident in the end service, which is an important scenario for consumers to experience delivery services and a key support for promoting efficient circulation of production factors. Since the beginning of this year, the postal and express delivery industry has not only directly helped to unleash consumer potential through infrastructure sinking, data empowerment, and policy coordination, but has also become an important channel for breaking market barriers and promoting the free flow of factors. To solve the problem of the 'last mile' of rural delivery, we have opened the first regularly operated drone postal route this year. ”Chen Fan, Deputy Manager of the Operations Management Department of Jinhua Postal Branch of China Post Group Co., Ltd., told reporters that Panqian Village in Luodian Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is a high-altitude mountain village with an altitude of over 1000 meters. In the past, it took more than an hour for a postal truck to enter the village. Now, with the use of drone postal routes, the entire flight only takes about 12 minutes. "This postal route not only efficiently completes the delivery of newspapers, mail, and shared express delivery into the village, but also carries agricultural products such as high-altitude vegetables down the mountain during the return journey, successfully building a two-way logistics loop of 'express delivery into the village and agricultural products into the city'. It is reported that in order to solve the problem of postal problems faced by people in mountainous areas and further improve services, Jinhua Postal Branch is continuously improving its low altitude logistics infrastructure system. As of now, three batches of route applications have been approved, with 16 serial routes covering 40 takeoff and landing points, a total of 500 flights, and carrying over 10000 kilograms of cargo. Among them, two routes have achieved normal operation and become the core carrier for empowering people's livelihoods and industries. Since the beginning of this year, in order to meet the diversified delivery needs of the market, express delivery services have been deeply integrated into the manufacturing industry, creating new growth opportunities. In Qinghe, Hebei, express delivery companies develop differentiated express delivery products based on the actual needs of automotive parts companies, such as SF Express and Deppon's large parcel business. They establish stable cooperative relationships with automotive parts manufacturing companies to meet the higher quality on-site service needs of supporting enterprises and help them reduce logistics costs; In Hai'an, Jiangsu, SF Express has established a systematic connection with furniture companies, providing full process services such as sorting, inventory, and returns, allowing furniture companies to focus on their core business and enhance their market competitiveness. We must closely follow the national 'dual circulation' strategic deployment and deepen the implementation of the 'two in, one out' project. ”Gao Hongfeng believes that in China, based on improving the rural delivery logistics system, we should promote postal and express cooperation, fast cooperation, and the integration of passenger, freight, and postal services, smooth the "last mile" of rural areas, strengthen the upward service of agricultural products, and assist in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and the construction of a unified domestic market; Deepen integration with the manufacturing industry, focus on fields such as 3C electronics, biomedicine, and automotive parts, and provide precise services to the real economy. Internationally, seize the opportunity of jointly building the "the Belt and Road", accelerate the construction of the international delivery logistics system, promote mutual recognition of cross-border logistics standards, simplify processes, support the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain, and serve the high-quality development of foreign trade. (New Society)