Recently, Yunnan Postal Branch put forward working approaches and measures to accelerate the development of international business and serve the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Yunnan Postal Branch proposed to comprehensively improve its competitiveness in cross-border parcel, express and logistics products, gradually develop its B2B market based on B2C business, and therefore become one of the main express and logistics channels to serve BRI and RCEP cross-border trade and facilitate manufacturing industry to go global. It will expand the independently-owned air routes of China Postal Airlines, integrate resources, and strive to build a three-dimensional international backbone network with railway, highway and aviation complementing each other and reasonably allocated so as to make it independent and controllable, hence becoming a fundamental force in building the international logistics channel for the Belt and Road countries and the RCEP region. With the support and promotion of China Post Group Corporation Limited, Yunnan Postal Branch has been improving its overseas service network by deepening multilateral and bilateral cooperation, business cooperation, self-construction and other means, and strive to become a leader in the high-quality development of postal sector in the Belt and Road countries and the RCEP region.

Yunnan Postal Branch has made a series of plans. First, it will integrate mail items, commercial express items and cargo freight into the innovative product system to facilitate trade development and help manufacturing industry go global. It will actively promote in-depth negotiations with postal operators in Southeast Asian countries adjacent to Yunnan province to create new advantages for international mail products, and therefore comprehensively improve the international competitiveness of postal delivery products targeted at Southeast Asia. It will make full use of the border land ports such as Mohan, Ruili and Hekou to create comprehensive and featured products of land, railway and multimodal transportation, forming superior cross-border export channels. It will continuously optimize customs clearance conditions and build a distribution hub of commercial import channel from Southeast Asian countries to Kunming port then radiating to the whole country. Based on the industrial layout of Yunnan province, it will focus on the key nodes of the industrial chain, participate in its international division of labor, and strive to exploit the market of South and Southeast Asia. Second, Yunnan Postal Branch is to strengthen its marketing system, enhance its professional marketing capabilities to serve BRI and RCEP. It will organize professional sales teams and provide good service for local clients engaging in import and export trade, cluster customers, manufacturers, and import and export cross-border e-commerce clients, so as to improve its capabilities of customer acquisition and retention. Third, it aims to strengthen capacity building, improve international delivery service network, and strengthen the radiating capabilities of the diversified international logistics channel for the Belt and Road cooperation. It will boost the capabilities of postal counter clerks in providing international mail service, and conduct in-depth development of last-mile delivery markets. It will gradually resume the construction of international mail units and offices of exchange at ports, optimize the layout of ports, and enhance their comprehensive service capacity. Yunnan Postal Branch will also build land transportation channels for mail and commercial express items to Southeast Asia, and construct an international trunk line network involving land, railway and aviation transportation. Fourth, it is to give full play to China Post’s advantages in comprehensive service and synergy, meet customers’ needs for financial settlement, parcel, express and logistics business, and cultural product development. It will deepen cooperation with international clients and enhance their loyalty through its one-stop comprehensive service.