China hits 100 billion deliveries as couriers grow part and parcel with e-commerce
- Fuelled by an explosion in e-commerce, China has reported 100 billion package deliveries for the year – the milestone’s earliest annual date
Joe Zhou came home from work one evening to find numerous packages at his Beijing flat door – a stack so high he could barely squeeze through. He had ordered almost everything his newly renovated home would need online, from appliances like an oven and coffee maker to full pieces of furniture.
Scenes like these are becoming increasingly common across China, as the country’s courier sector expands in tandem with the seemingly unstoppable rise of e-commerce.
This equates to an average of 71.43 packages per person, 5,144 packages delivered every second, or 440 million packages moving across China every day.
Per the same data, peak daily volume exceeded 580 million parcels, average monthly volume surpassed 13 billion parcels and average monthly revenue was over 100 billion yuan (US$14 billion) – all record highs.
China is the world’s largest e-commerce market – accounting for about half of global online sales – with companies like Alibaba, JD.com and PDD becoming household names in the sector. Alibaba is the owner of the South China Morning Post.
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Little boy skilfully packs products for family business
