
In 2014, China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest express delivery country for the first time in terms of workload. Since 2015, the industry has continued to maintain a rapid growth trend. From January to May of 2015, Chinese express delivery enterprises completed the delivery of 6.81 billion mails and parcels, jumping by 42.7% year on year; the revenue footed up to RMB96.95 billion, up 31.9% year on year. Wherein, the revenue generated by intra-city business reached RMB13.63 billion, climbing by 51.1% year on year; the inter-city business revenue hit RMB53.29 billion, presenting a year-on-year rise of 30.2%; the revenue from the business with foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan increased by 17.5% year on year to RMB14.04 billion.