A NATIONAL NETWORK
WITH GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
After the founding of the People's Republic, China's
postal service was prompt in reviving the postal webs and routes, enlisting the
support fro m different sectors. As a result, it was able to extend its services
to cover the whole county with a short time. And since the 1980s, the industry
has especially registered a surging growth. For this reason, the State and the
Ministry of coverage; Speeding up the technical upgrading of trunk railway
routes, and purchasing more train carriage for postal use ;Importing heavy-duty
trucks and forming truck fleets for postal inland waterways ,and optimizing the
postal networks so as to increase remarkably the shipping capacity, especially
that of the postal service itself.
As a consequence, the total mileage of postal routes
grew from 900,000 kilometers in 1980 to 2.85million kilometers in 1998,train
carriage having increased to a total of 490,and mail trucks from 7,000 to
33,000. In addition, there are now six liners and three airplanes. In short, an
interlocking nationwide postal network has basically taken shape, combining
railway, air, road, waterway and other modes of transportation. Thus with high
speed and efficiency, the substantially increased capacity of postal
transportation has greatly expanded the postal service as a whole.
Along with fast development
in the domestic networks, the postal operators have also been active in opening international
routes and networks, maintaining direct postal relations with 145 countries and regions, with
its international services experiencing a healthy and orderly development.
