Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is China’s gateway for ASEAN-oriented opening up and cooperation. There, Guangxi Postal Branch is playing an increasingly prominent role of a bridge in commercial distribution.

Taking the construction of the new western land-sea corridor as its strategic guidance, Guangxi Postal Branch has accelerated the improvement of ASEAN-oriented international network infrastructure and kept the cross-border mail services unimpeded. In 2025, it generated an outbound international mail volume of 3.23 million pieces, a year-on-year increase of 330 percent, with the growth rate ranking second among the postal branches nationwide.

Building a better and higher-quality platform for opening-up

Facing the Beibu Gulf and adjacent to Southeast Asia, openness has long been the most distinctive feature of Guangxi. In 2025, the import and export trade between Guangxi and ASEAN reached 429.22 billion yuan (about 62.57 billion US dollars), a year-on-year increase of eight percent. So far, ASEAN has remained the largest trading partner of Guangxi for 26 consecutive years.

From offering basic mail services to guaranteeing faster and better services, Guangxi Postal Branch has provided a higher-quality platform for ASEAN products to expand into the Chinese market and for the accelerated circulation of goods both at home and abroad. Following the work approach of integrated development of postal services, commercial express services, freight and warehousing, Guangxi Postal Branch has built at the border port a cross-border e-commerce channel that integrates services of international trunk line transport, customs affairs and border warehousing. It has combined the functions of China Post (ASEAN) Cross-border E-commerce Supervision Center, China-ASEAN (Guangxi) International Express Service Supervision Center and Nanning Office of Exchange for the advantage of integrated customs clearance for international mail, international commercial express and cross-border e-commerce items, to enable highly efficient coordination throughout the entire process of inspection, customs clearance, sorting and dispatch. It has also provided comprehensive services for cross-border logistics, ensuring whole-process and real-time traceability of vehicles. Eventually, Guangxi Postal Branch has supported Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region for the development of the new trade paradigm featuring produced in ASEAN, distributed in Guangxi and sold across China.

Expanding high-efficiency going-global channels

Guangxi Postal Branch has consistently sped up the infrastructure construction of cross-border logistics, innovated relevant service models, and developed a three-dimensional delivery network covering land, rail and air transport, so as to connect ASEAN countries and reach global markets. In May, 2025, the first China Post Guangxi-ASEAN freight train departed from Nanning International Railway Port in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, and arrived at Yen Vien station in Hanoi, Vietnam in just 16 hours, reducing 26 hours compared with traditional rail transportation. This freight train transported a total of 1070 TEUs in 2025, exporting 15914.1 tonnes of goods. Throughout the year of 2025, it generated an exportation volume of 83.15 million cross-border e-commerce packages and transited over 8 million pieces of ASEAN goods and mail, making all efforts to facilitate goods reaching global markets.

Faced with the urgent demand for the digital upgrading of cross-border export logistics, Guangxi Postal Branch has independently researched and developed an international trunk line management system, enabled seamless data connection with domestic e-commerce platforms and several leading international logistics service providers, and formed an end-to-end closed loop of operations. Currently, the system has launched international trunk line transportation service from China to Malaysia, Thailand and other destinations. Relying on its powerful data visualization capabilities, the system has achieved management transparency and traceability of the entire logistics chain, highly enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency. As of the end of March in 2026, the system has cumulatively handled 215,000 cross-border waybills, generating business revenue of over 2 million yuan (about 292,800.00 US dollars).

Delivering high-quality cross-border services

To answer the needs of border traders for seamless and orderly customs clearance, Guangxi Postal Branch has built a warehousing center boasting functions of bonded logistics, bonded e-commerce, pre-positioned consolidation warehousing and border warehousing, to provide the customers with integrated logistics services from stocking and consolidation to customs declaration and cross-border shipping. Such integrated services can enable “single declaration, single inspection and single release”, cutting customs clearance time by more than 50 percent.

In February this year, Nanning Mail Center (Phase I) broke ground and is expected to be completed by the end of this year. It will become the first mail processing center in the express industry in Guangxi that integrates automatic feeding, automatic sorting and automatic loading and unloading docks. In addition, Guangxi Postal Branch will build an office of exchange and customs supervision facilities in the center, so as to smooth the whole chain of the cross-border parcel, express and logistics services from sorting, customs clearance to transit, and enable same-day customs clearance and next-day delivery of the cross-border mail from ASEAN countries.

Besides, Guangxi Postal Branch has reached agreements with EMS Vietnam and Vietnam Post to optimize terminal dues and service scope, getting the competitiveness of bilateral parcel, express and logistics services significantly increased. Guangxi Postal Branch has also unclogged the bottlenecks in cross-border e-commerce fund settlement with Thailand and Vietnam, established a transparent channel for the repatriation of money paid for cross-border e-commerce goods, generating RMB settlement of 116.16 million yuan (about 16.99 million US dollars), with the average handling time per transaction reducing by 2 days. Moreover, it has strengthened cooperation with goods suppliers in Fujian, Jiangxi and other provinces, helping them export goods to ASEAN. Guangxi Postal Branch has also reached out to the manufacturing enterprises within the autonomous region, and provided one-stop supply chain services for auto parts, photovoltaic, new energy and other industries.

Next, Guangxi Postal Branch will push forward the integrated development of postal services, commercial express services, freight and warehousing, expand its three core markets of cross-border e-commerce, manufacturers going global and cross-border consolidated shipping, to deliver premium cross-border services, and contribute its strength to the high-standard opening-up and high-quality development of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

A fully loaded postal truck is driving into Nanning Comprehensive Bonded Zone.

Postal employees are scanning and inspecting parcels via equipment in China Post (ASEAN) Cross-border E-commerce Supervision Center.

A postal employee is checking the parcels in the consolidation warehouse.

After being inspected, the cross-border parcels are being loaded onto a truck for intra-city mail transfer.