On April 15th, the State Post Bureau announced the operation of the postal industry in the first quarter of 2025. In the first quarter, the volume of express delivery business increased by 21.6% year-on-year, and the revenue of express delivery business increased by 10.9% year-on-year. As of now, the volume of express delivery services in China has exceeded 50 billion this year, 18 days ahead of 2024. This means that the country receives 35 express deliveries per capita, more than 5700 per second and 500 million per day. The express delivery industry is not only a barometer of the prosperity of the consumer market, but also a booster for the high-quality development of the national economy. Liu Jiang, Director of the Strategic Planning Research Department of the Development Research Center of the State Post Bureau, stated that since the beginning of this year, the express delivery industry has continued to maintain steady development, reflecting the continuous warming of China's consumer market and the accelerated release of consumption potential. In the future, with the continuous implementation of policies to promote consumption and the gradual growth of new driving forces for industry development, the express delivery industry will further play an important role in the logistics field, helping to smooth the economic cycle and improve the operational efficiency of the real economy, injecting stronger momentum into high-quality economic development. The business scope is steadily expanding. "Package in the morning, send out at noon, and deliver to Beishangguang within 48 hours," said Zhou Yongqi, a coffee grower in Mangdan Village, Lujiang Town, Longyang District, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province. Since the express delivery network was set up in the village, his coffee beans no longer have to worry about sales, and the sales scope has rapidly expanded to the whole country. Yang Hua, the person in charge of the Baoshan branch of Zhongtong Express, told reporters that there has been a large shipment of coffee products recently, especially hanging ear coffee and coffee beans, with an average daily shipment of 7000 pieces. At present, Zhongtong Express provides delivery services to nearly 100 local coffee growers and producers in Baoshan through a comprehensive service chain of "setting up on-site points, regional parcel packaging, and on-site collection". In the first quarter, the shipment volume of coffee beans exceeded 580000 pieces. The express delivery industry is both related to people's livelihoods and driving development. Rong Rong, Deputy Director of Yunnan Postal Administration, introduced that in recent years, the upward pace of agricultural products has been accelerating, and methods such as "aerial matsutake" and "high-speed rail flowers" have accelerated the export of "cloud products" from Yunnan, effectively promoting the flow of urban and rural resource elements and improving the convenience of rural consumption. From January to February this year, the volume of express delivery services in Yunnan Province increased by 37.17% year-on-year, with an average daily processing of nearly 16 million mail parcels. The revenue from express delivery services increased by 22.82% year-on-year, ranking among the top in the country in terms of growth rate. Since the beginning of this year, the express delivery industry has continued to maintain steady development, reflecting the continuous warming of China's consumer market and the accelerated release of consumer potential. Express delivery companies continue to deeply cultivate the agricultural product market, effectively meeting the delivery needs of multiple scenarios, and steadily expanding the scope of delivery services. Wuxi Marathon, Shijiazhuang Marathon, Jiaxing Marathon... As the weather warms up, marathon events in many places are starting with gunfire. In response to the delivery needs of marathon runners, companies such as JD Logistics and SF Express have deployed event logistics to ensure smooth and orderly transportation of marathon event materials through innovative warehousing models and personalized value-added services. At the Shanghai Marathon, participants can hand over their clothes and running shoes to couriers, wash them through the "JD Service+" laundry factory, and then send them home; At the Wuhan Marathon, SF Express and Jinjiang Inn jointly launched the "Han Marathon Exclusive Accommodation Plan", providing "door-to-door" luggage delivery services for out of town runners. After runners check in, their luggage can be sent back with just one click. The relevant person in charge of the State Post Bureau stated that since the beginning of this year, a series of policies to promote consumption have been implemented effectively, and the overall consumer market has shown a stable growth trend. The consumption scenarios have continued to enrich, driving the continuous expansion of the express delivery market. At the same time, the postal and express delivery industry continues to extend its service network, innovate service products, and improve service quality to further meet diversified consumer demands. Delivery services are becoming more efficient. Currently, spring tea picking is reaching its peak. In Wenxin Tea Village, Shihe District, Xinyang City, Henan Province, the SF Express Fengzhou 90 logistics drone carried the first batch of Xinyang Maojian spring tea fresh leaves into the air. After 10 minutes, these tea leaves smoothly entered the tea plantation at the foot of the mountain for frying. In order to solve the pain point of transporting fresh spring tea leaves in the first kilometer, in addition to aerial drones, SF R5 unmanned vehicles have also been deployed on the ground, which can achieve all-weather connection to steep tea gardens at an altitude of over 800 meters, forming a three-dimensional transportation network of 'aerial express line+ground branch line' Guo Wei, Deputy General Manager of SF Express Henan Region, introduced that tea farmers used to be most afraid of traffic jams when transporting fresh leaves down the mountain. If they were one hour late, the fragrance of the tea would be different, and the quality and taste would be much worse. Now combined transportation can compress the one-way transportation time from traditional land transportation of 90 minutes to 15 minutes, greatly improving the logistics efficiency of Xinyang tea industry. Tea farmer Zhou Jianguo told reporters that transporting 2400 kilograms of fresh leaves in a single day through the "drone+unmanned vehicle" intermodal transportation system saved over 1100 yuan in costs. As an important channel for the upward movement of agricultural products, the postal and express delivery industry plays an important role in reducing the cost of agricultural product circulation and improving the efficiency of agricultural product circulation. Postal and express delivery companies are actively exploring integrated development models such as "joint distribution" and "passenger, freight, and postal", and improving the construction of postal and logistics network nodes at the county, township, and village levels according to local conditions. For example, Datong County in Qinghai Province utilizes the surplus space of public transportation vehicles to hand over packages from postal and express companies to urban and rural public transportation vehicles for transportation, guiding and supporting relevant e-commerce and agricultural product enterprises to settle in transportation stations and share station resources. The booming tourism market has also driven express delivery companies to continuously innovate service models and facilitate people's travel. At Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport, SF Express and Gansu Civil Aviation Aviation Logistics Co., Ltd. jointly launched an integrated service of "luggage packing, storage, and express delivery", bringing passengers a new experience of "zero waiting, full scene" air delivery; In the Qiandongnan region of Guizhou, Shentong Express Guizhou Kaili branch ensures the safe delivery of Miao silver jewelry and Dong wax printing intangible cultural heritage products through technology empowerment and customized packaging services, and helps promote the dissemination of ethnic culture. Thanks to the active innovation of service models in the industry, the deployment of artificial intelligence models in multiple scenarios, and the deployment of intelligent devices in multiple regions, the quality and efficiency of services continue to improve Liu Jiang said. The latest report on China's express delivery development index for March, which continues to promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement, shows that the trend index of express delivery development in March was 72.1, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%. In April, a large number of spring vegetables and fruits will be launched, and the enthusiasm for hiking tourism will increase. It is expected that related delivery services will usher in new development. On the one hand, with the strengthening and expansion of the policy of exchanging old for new consumer goods, digital, home appliances, kitchen and bathroom products continue to sell well. In order to better serve the implementation of policies, postal and express delivery companies have actively responded by launching a series of exclusive delivery service solutions, developing reverse logistics networks, integrating the delivery of new goods, dismantling of old products, installation and commissioning, and environmental recycling, and building an efficient and convenient integrated service system. On the other hand, with the continuous construction of intelligent logistics ports, the delivery service capability is further enhanced. Not long ago, JD Logistics conducted a trial operation of its warehouse in Kashgar, Xinjiang. With the layout of warehouses in Kashgar, Urumqi and other cities, Kashgar and its surrounding areas will achieve the fastest same day delivery, and the overall delivery time in other areas will be increased by 3 days compared to the previous Urumqi direct delivery. The person in charge of JD Logistics stated that in the future, JD Logistics Xinjiang Warehouse Network will also introduce independently developed modern intelligent logistics software and hardware facilities and equipment, and continue to build a modern supply chain system. The express delivery industry, as an important component of the modern circulation system, is the forefront of promoting the improvement of circulation efficiency and reducing logistics costs. There is still significant room for improvement in reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the logistics field Liu Jiang believes that firstly, we need to leverage the advantages of industry economies of scale, improve network coverage and service convenience, reduce the average operating costs of the industry through economies of scale, and continue to enhance cost-effectiveness; Secondly, it is necessary to efficiently connect production and consumption, reduce circulation links, promote direct connection between production and consumption, achieve direct delivery of agricultural products from the fields to the dining table, and direct delivery of industrial products from the production line to the express sorting line. The delivery network should be transformed into a "mobile warehouse" for the manufacturing industry to improve warehouse turnover efficiency; Once again, we need to accelerate the upgrading of circulation methods, drive changes in logistics quality, efficiency, and driving force, promote the modernization and intelligent development of the logistics industry, focus on developing new businesses such as zero inventory management and production line logistics, and achieve information interconnection and efficient chain integration; Finally, enrich the application scenarios of large-scale models in vertical fields, better promote the integration of data and reality with "artificial intelligence+", better empower the integration of the industrial chain with "digitalization", and enhance the value of the entire industrial chain. (New Society)