China Post

Not to be confused with The China Post.

China Post

Industry	Post
Headquarters	Jia8, Beilishi Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Area served	Mainland China[1]
Key people	Mr. Ma Junsheng, Director-General As of 31 October 2008 (2008 -10-31)[update][2]
Services	Postal services
Owner(s)	Government of China
Website	http://www.spb.gov.cn/

China Post
Traditional Chinese	中國郵政
Simplified Chinese	中国邮政
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Yóuzhèng

China Post (Chinese: 中国邮政), which is the name used by the State Post Bureau of PRC in business, is the official postal service of the People's Republic of China. China Post is operated by the State Post Bureau of the People's Republic of China. The State Post Bureau, commonly referred to as China Post, is both a regulatory authority and government owned enterprise. Thus it is responsible for the regulation of the national postal industry and the management of national postal enterprises.

History

Main article: Postage stamps and postal history of the People's Republic of China

The current postal service in the PRC was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Post in the Universal Postal Union in 1972. The postal service in China can be dated back to the Shang Dynasty. It was formerly administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

China Post is directly supervised by the State Post Bureau of the People's Republic of China 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

China Post is organized along the following organizational structure.^[3]

	Department	Description
1.	General Office	Responsible for the new postal research strategies and policies, coordination, media and publicity, feedback, complaints and safety and security issues.
2.	Department of Postal Sector Management	Responsible for the regulation of postal market and the formulation of postal laws and regulations.
3.	Department of Postage Stamps	Responsible for the issue of postage vouchers and philatelic services.
4.	Department of Planning and Finance	Responsible for the finance, state-owned assets and the development of postal technologies.
5.	Department of Public Service	Responsible for postal service quality.
6.	Department of Post Routes Operation	Responsible for the construction and operation of post routes and logistic issues.
7.	Department of International Cooperation	Responsible for the management of international postal affairs and services.
8.	Department of Personnel and Education:	Responsible for the personnel, income payment and human resources education in the postal sector. 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

A mail truck

A postal car towing trailers with mail, at a train station

• 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: 3
• 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

References

1. ^ "Local Postal Administrations and Their Main Functions". State Post Bureau. October 31, 2008. http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/folder12/2008/10/2008-10-3117994.html. 
2. ^ "Top Officials of the State Post Bureau". State Post Bureau. October 31, 2008. http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/folder12/2008/10/2008-10-3117996.html. 
3. ^ "State Post Bureau". PRC Government Website. http://english.gov.cn/2005-10/03/content_74308.htm. Retrieved September 2, 2007. 

External links

• PRC State Post Bureau, China Post (Chinese (PRC))
• Message from the Director General (English)
• China's Postal Service: A Brief History^{[dead link]}
• Imperial China postal history
• China Post Postcode Search Tool^{[dead link]}
• China Post EMS Package Tracking Tool