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shenzhen’s delivery businesses ranked second nationwide in terms of earnings, as cross-border online sales experienced rapid growth, shenzhen economic daily reported yesterday.
shenzhen’s express delivery industry has grown more than 35 percent annually in recent years, while the industry’s output value accounts for about 1.18 percent of the city’s gdp, or 13 percent of the logistics industry’s output value.
cross-border express delivery services might become the new driving power of the industry with daily shipments of close to 1 million pieces. nearly half of the country’s cross-border e-commerce goods were exported through shenzhen, according to statistics from the city’s postal administration.
the statistics also showed that the overall revenue of express delivery companies in shenzhen was 1.77 billion yuan (us$285 million) in may, 29 percent higher than a year before.
in 2014, the turnover of e-commerce in shenzhen reached 1.5 trillion yuan, 58.43 percent higher than a year earlier, leading the e-commerce trading in china.
the online purchase volume was 94.4 billion yuan, which was equivalent to 19.5 percent of total retail sales in the city. shenzhen’s online sales turnover was 105.6 billion yuan in 2014, with a year-on-year growth rate of 27.3 percent.
there are over 100,000 companies in shenzhen that have developed e-commerce services, with 5,800 of them having online trading platforms, with 63 percent of the country’s cross-border e-commerce firms are in shenzhen.
li luning, the executive director of shenzhen international holdings ltd. co., said at a press conference earlier this year that cross-border e-commerce trading has grown rapidly, while the delivery of goods is a shortcoming.
li said the company will use its strength at express delivery to build a distribution center, matching e-commerce traders with express companies on its platform to shorten the transit time of goods.
express delivery companies such as sf express, sto, yuantong and yunda have also pushed their way into the oversea market for higher profits.
in 2014, shenzhen’s express delivery services to hong kong, macao and taiwan china made up 9.4 percent of the total business, accounting for 41 percent of overall revenue, according to statistics from the city’s postal administration.
(source:shenzhen daily)