China's monthly export volume hits a record high! Behind it is a $5 global express delivery network

This is a great reversal.

In November 2020, China's total foreign trade exports amounted to 1.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.9%. The monthly export value hit a record high, and the monthly growth rate was also the highest in the past 20 months.

China, which was the first to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, was the first to emerge from the shadows and export products and services to the world. From the performance of foreign trade export data in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, it can be seen that China is working hard to lead the world in fighting the economic recession caused by the pandemic.

Behind the record-breaking data of foreign trade exports is the further development of China's global logistics network infrastructure - for the same cross-border package, the US FedEx charges $100, while Chinese express can deliver it to the world for $5. The Shanxi merchants' vision of "cargo delivery to the world" a hundred years ago has now become "cargo delivery to the world".

Under China's dual circulation strategy, the cross-border logistics network, led by private express companies such as ZTO, YTO, STO, Yunda, Best, and 4PX, is like a "second high-speed rail network", which continuously transports economic energy to every corner of the world and helps get China's cross-border trade moving.

The online miracle of Kongsang Ancient City: 70% of Heze products are sold worldwide

Thousands of miles away in Europe and America, probably few people know that there is a city called Heze in China, but they may have agricultural and sideline products from Heze on their tables, and use small commodities made in Heze at home.

Although Heze, which was called Kongsang four thousand years ago, gave birth to Huaxu, the first ancestor of Chinese people recorded in history books, Heze is not a city with a high level of economic development in Shandong today. However, Heze is now rapidly improving the vitality of its urban economy through a network that connects to the world.

From January to November 2020, Heze's cross-border e-commerce achieved a transaction volume of US$790 million, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%, gradually becoming the main driving force for Heze's exports. So far, more than 340 companies in Heze have exported through platforms such as Alibaba, an increase of 40 companies over last year.

Heze City, with Taobao Village as its starting point, has exploded with the strong growth of the digital economy. To date, Heze has 180,000 e-commerce companies, 570,000 employees, 51 e-commerce parks, and its GDP has entered the top 100 in the country.

Now, Heze has upgraded its cargo delivery from nationwide to global. For many overseas businessmen engaged in foreign trade, Heze, Shandong is now a treasure city for commodity trade, just like Yiwu, and they don’t need to visit this city, as they can deliver orders continuously online.

You should know that 70% of "Made in Heze" products are sold to the world through cross-border e-commerce, and behind cross-border e-commerce is a cross-border parcel network built by domestic and foreign express logistics companies and Cainiao. In the domestic part of this network, express companies such as ZTO, YTO, STO, Yunda, Best, and 4PX are responsible for collection and first-leg transportation; in the foreign part, more than 100 logistics partners connect the logistics links of different countries through digital intelligence technology, and the distribution range can reach 224 countries and regions around the world.

More than 200 cross-border warehouses, more than 300 cross-border dedicated lines, and nearly 200 charter flights per month have reduced the logistics time from China to key countries from 70 days to less than 10 days. This allows goods from Heze and other parts of the country to be delivered to any user's home overseas in an ever-shortening time.

This is the secret of Heze becoming the "Online Yiwu". There are many places like Heze across the country. In addition to Yiwu, emerging e-commerce cities such as Jieyang, Linyi, Langfang and Baoding are rapidly emerging. China's complete industrial belt production capacity is exerting its strength globally, not only for domestic sales, but also for export, filling the gap in global production capacity.

Export business supported by logistics: 5 dollars for global delivery

Just like the 9.9 yuan free shipping on Taobao in China, logistics costs are the key factor that determines the survival of cross-border e-commerce merchants. Therefore, whether we can help merchants reduce costs and increase speed determines the survival of cross-border logistics.

Time magazine reported that currently, it usually takes 5 days and $100 to deliver a 0.5 kg package from Shanghai to London. But Cainiao can deliver it for $5, and even hopes to reduce the price to $3 in the future.

Contrary to the general impression that only high-value goods can take charter flights, this network, through intelligent order consolidation technology, allows many high-quality and low-priced goods with free shipping of 5 or 10 yuan, such as mobile phone cases, toothpaste squeezers, toilet lids, etc., to take charter flights, providing small and medium-sized businesses with a brand-new export logistics solution and reducing the price of cross-border logistics to the extreme.

Based on intelligent technology, different orders from the same consumer in the same cycle can be integrated into one large package and upgraded from surface mail routes to direct air routes. The delivery time can be shortened by half, the merchant's free shipping costs will not increase at all, and the compensation disputes caused by the lack of logistics details in the past can be avoided.

This also reduces the waiting time for overseas consumers and saves them the trouble of collecting packages multiple times. A Russian internet celebrity found that the five orders he purchased were combined into one package. He posted a video on social media saying, "The combined package invented by the Chinese is amazing."

The obsession of Russia's "shopping addicts" is no less than that of Li Jiaqi's fans.

Export businessman Chen Peng is very happy to see that the fighting nation has also become keen on shopping, especially buying Chinese products. Due to the underdeveloped light industry in Russia, a large number of daily necessities need to be imported. At the same time, consumers in this country have also popularized the habit of online shopping, and 90% of consumers shop online on a daily basis.

Among the products preferred by Russian shopaholics, small toys and handicrafts are the hottest sellers. Therefore, Chen Peng has been "specializing" in the mobile phone case business in Russia in recent years, selling tens of thousands of mobile phone cases a year through AliExpress.

However, with the continuous increase in the price of ordinary mail, the logistics cost of sending a mobile phone case to Russia is 10 yuan, which is more than the cost of the mobile phone case. The postage can result in a loss of tens of thousands of yuan a month. How can this be acceptable?

This cross-border parcel network urgently built a new cross-border e-commerce line, the "Super Economy Line", which reduced the logistics price for shipping to Russia to 4 yuan, bringing Chen Peng's 10 yuan business back to life.

Overseas warehouses and charter flights: China's cross-border parcel volume has become the world's largest

On December 21, the State Post Bureau's China Express Big Data Platform monitored in real time that an express package sent from Huanggang, Hubei to Changsha, Hunan became the 80 billionth express package in 2020, setting a new record in the history of China's express delivery.

You know, in the past few months, we have pressed the "pause button" on economic operations. But 80 billion is not all that China's express delivery industry has.

In the context of globalization, the transport capacity of China's express logistics industry has maintained rapid growth. Data from the international logistics industry show that the daily transport volume of Cainiao's cross-border logistics alone is already comparable to that of FedEx, DHL, and UPS.

The speed of cross-border express delivery has also amazed more and more overseas consumers. On November 11, 2020, Alejandro, a 35-year-old resident of Madrid, received the Chinese goods he bought online in half a day. The goods were shipped directly from Cainiao's overseas warehouse in Spain.

Relying on this logistics system, the reduction of logistics costs and the improvement of time efficiency have once again demonstrated the advantages of Made in China. Many small and medium-sized enterprises have achieved growth against the trend.

It is based on the logistics facilities built by Chinese express around the world, including private express companies, customs clearance companies, overseas warehouses, eWTP's E-Hub, overseas distribution partners, etc., that a global intelligent logistics backbone network has been formed, providing matching distribution efficiency for the surge in export cargo volume in 2020.

The Chinese express delivery industry's continued investment in its global layout has made the concept of "global village" a reality, upgrading from the previous online global information connection to an offline global commodity express connection.

Known as the "second high-speed rail network", China's express delivery is affordable and convenient. In addition to ensuring strong consumer demand in the domestic market, it also directly increases the repurchase rate of overseas consumers on cross-border e-commerce platforms, bringing more orders to Chinese companies.

The express delivery and logistics industry has expanded from serving China to connecting the world. As we can see, the still raging global epidemic has caused the economies of various countries to come to a standstill. The demand for goods in China, the only major economy maintaining positive growth, will accelerate.