On the afternoon of May 31, China Post and Chinese national table tennis team held a ceremony in Beijing to launch their strategic cooperation. Present at the ceremony were Zheng Guoyu, president of China Post Group Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as China Post), Kang Ning and Wen Shaoqi, vice presidents of China Post Group, Liu Guoliang, president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA), Qin Zhijian, vice president of CTTA, He Xiao, secretary-general of CTTA, Li Sun, head coach of Chinese national table tennis team, Wang Hao, head coach of men’s team, Ma Lin, head coach of women's team, Xiao Zhan, head coach of mixed doubles, and 12 national table tennis players including Ma Long, Chen Meng, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha.

As the "national team" of the express and logistics industry, China Post, adhering to the service principle of "China Post, by the people, for the people" and relying on its service network that covers urban and rural areas and reaches the world, is committed to providing fast, accurate, safe and efficient express and postal services for hundreds of millions of users around the world. It has been ranked among top 100 on the Fortune Global 500 List for three consecutive years, with its revenue and profits both topping the world’s postal industry in 2022. Chinese national table tennis team, the world's top table tennis national team, swept all five gold medals at the just-concluded 2023 World Table Tennis Championships (WTTC) Durban, South Africa, winning the 15th consecutive WTTC women's singles and the 10th men's singles crown. Now that China Post and Chinese national table tennis team, the two most dominant players in their respective sectors, has established partnership, they will surely work together to create glories for both parties in the future.

Through strategic cooperation, China Post will deeply participate in sports events and release activities related to Chinese national table tennis team, and give full play to the honor of being a strategic partner of and product provider for Chinese national table tennis team. With the endorsement of table tennis–the national sport, China Post is to comprehensively enhance its brand image as the "national team" of postal industry.

At the same time, China Postal Express & Logistics Co., Ltd. (China Postal Express & Logistics) will launch brand-new EMS envelopes. The envelopes will take the ace table tennis players as the main figures to indicate the shared features of accuracy and speed, thus introducing the two theme designs implying “making accurate delivery at full speed” and “reaching the whole world with fast service”. Such designs not only showcase the spirit of Chinese national table tennis team players who keep making progress and breakthroughs, and compete tenaciously to scale new heights in competitions, but also symbolize the kernel philosophy of China Postal Express & Logistics to pursue excellence. In the future, the two sides will also make positive use of the extensive network of China Post in urban and rural areas and the national appeal of Chinese national table tennis team to promote national fitness and other public welfare activities.

At the launch ceremony, the national table tennis players also participated in the release of the latest EMS envelopes, and joined in a unique table tennis friendship match with postal employees. The friendship between the two "national teams" heated up rapidly, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of the strategic cooperation.