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The Postal Service Low of the People's Republic of China and its detailed regulations. The Postal Service Low of the People's Republic of China was passed on Dec. 2nd, 1986 at the 18th meeting of the standing committee of the 6th National People 's Congress and was put into force on Jan. 1st, 1987.

As we are entering the new century, the postal service has assumed an increasing importance, The postal service, as an indispensable sector of the information industry, has always received appropriate attention and support from the Communist Party of China and the central government. With the rapid developing economy and cultural endeavors, along with the all-round progress in the wide community after China began to reform and open up, her postal service has similarly made momentous progresses, driving China's market economy into the age of information technologies.

The Chinese government adopted in the mid-1980s favorable policies toward the postal service, allowing the industry to retain its profits for its own growth efforts .The former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications also favored the service through a series of policies, such as "supporting the post office with earnings from the telecommunication sector". The three successive adjustments in postage and charges in 1990,1996 and 1999 provided momentum and vitality to the postal enterprises. Increased investment, growing operational revenues, expanding and enhanced buildup-all have proved instrumental to the healthy developments in both services and technological applications. More profound restructuring followed in the late 1990s.An important structural reform occurred in 1998 when the State Postal Bureau was established ,announcing the separation of the postal service from the telecommunication segment.

Since then the State Postal Bureau of China has become an independent entity with dual capacities; the regulator of the postal services industry, and the manager of all postal-related businesses and enterprises across the country. As an administrative institution, it will strengthen the managing functions over the nation's postal industry as a whole, in an effort to safeguard both the interests of the State and those of the customers. On the other hand, as a public utility operator, the Bureau will be solely responsible for the uniform construction and operation of the postal networks in China, assuming the obligations of providing nationwide services ,This vital restructuring has secured the guarantee for Chinese postal service in its efforts to modernize, to perfect the postal regime, and to generate and develop postal business.

• Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai received deputies attending the meeting of national advanced workers of posts and telecommunications in 1956.

• Deng Xiaoping met with a foreign delegation of posts and telecommunications.

• Jiang Zemin visited the posts and telecommunications hall of the first exhibition of National Industrial Enterprises' Technological Progress Achievements in 1991.

• The national postage and stamp management work meeting was held in January 1999.

• From Jan 17 to 20,1999,the China Postal Masters' symposium was held in Beijing. Wu Jichuan, Liu Liqing, Liu Pingyuan, Luo Shuzhen, Tan Xiaowei,Wu Shixiong, Liu Andong, Ma Junsheng, Sheng Minghuan and Guo Hao attended the meeting.

• The conference hall.