In the early days since the foundation of the People's Republic of China, the communication network basis of China Post is very poor, with sparse outlets and obsolete equipment.

At the end of 1949, there were only 26,328 postal offices and branches nationwide ( except for Tibet and Tai Wang ). The average area of service coverage of each office was 364.6 square kilometers. The average population of service coverage of each office was 21,000. Only a few services were available, such as Letter, Parcel, Remittance and so on. The number of average letter items per capital per year was 1.1. The total postal volume was 135 million. The revenue was 62.084 million.

Since the foundation of the P.R.China, especially the implementation of the policy of opening to the outside world, China Post has been in continuous, rapid and sound development. The postal network is accessible everywhere all over the country and also has links to the world. The overall strength has been making progress continuously. A postal development way with Chinese characteristics has come into been.

The major achievements are as follows:

Great enhancement on communication capability

Great improvement on standards of technological equipment

Remarkable business performance

Improved service standards

More and more cooperation with other countries

Review the past, China Post has made great progress.Look forward to the future, China Post will deepen the reform of the operation system.Promote the transformation form extensive to intensive organization, management and operation. Keep a relatively high speed of development. Actively promote the development of new services. Improve the overall service standards.Make great efforts to improve business performance.Speed up the construction of the postal communication network.With a brand new gesture to welcome the coming of the 21st century.

In 2000, China Post will achieve:
Revenue up to 50 billion Yuan RMB Output per person up to 100 thousand Yuan RMB
Balance of postal savings up to 400 billion
Postal offices and branches up to 82,116
Mail processing centers up to 236
Area for production up to 17.36 million square meters
First and second class trunk route up to 3.1 million kilometers
Transportation vehicles up to 39 thousand
Air crafts 3
Railway carriages 73
Letter sorting machines 155
Automatic parcel sorting machine 209
Computerized postal offices 20,000
Basically complete the physical postal communication network with reasonable layout, advanced technology, scientific management, speed distribution and excellent service, and the integrated postal service computer network.
Enter into the list of world leading entities.