The key to the development of e-commerce in China is the Courier team Building

The Courier who specializes in office building in big cities in China can earn several times more than factory workers. The picture is a delivery man in Shanghai.

Mr. Li (David li) has the spirit of hard work, willing to ride in the streets in Beijing, where the traffic conditions are so torturous. For China, which is worth billions of of billions of dollars and suffers from the business of putting goods in the hands of picky customers, Mr Li is a valuable person.

In 2011, Mr. Li left his hometown of Hanhan, left his wife and his infant son, and left the middle school math teacher, to Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd. (Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co.) A courier. The company is an operator of shopping website Jingdong Mall (360buy.com).

Express company said that those who specialize in high-end office buildings in the big cities can earn more than 950 dollars a month (Tencent Technology Note: about 5912 yuan), compared to factory workers 200 U.S. dollars to 650 dollars higher income. Those office buildings have a large volume of orders and the delivery of goods is convenient and quick.

Speaking of separation from family, Mr. Li said it was difficult, but I was ambitious. After only five months at work, he was promoted to the head of a distribution center at the beginning of last year, with 20 couriers.

E-commerce has exploded in China in recent years as more and more affluent Chinese consumers have become keen on online shopping. According to the Forrester research firm, China's online sales are expected to surpass that of the US in the next few years, from $169.4 billion trillion last year to $356.1 billion trillion in 2016. Over the same period, U.S. online retail sales are expected to increase from 226 billion U.S. dollars to 327 billion U.S. dollars.

In light of this, internet retailers and logistics companies are trying to build a complex distribution system in China from scratch, sending consumers in remote areas to buy things online. Alibaba Group LC Ltd., an E-commerce company ' Bad logistics is slowing China's internet retail growth, ' said founder Jack Ma. Alibaba Group, which operates Taobao (Taobao) and Cat Mall (Tmall), intends to join banks, courier companies and related industry entities to invest 100 billion yuan (about 15 billion US dollars) to strengthen China's logistics industry in the next 10 years, people familiar with the matter said.

Recent events have highlighted the challenges facing the industry.

Last year, after receiving complaints from customers, China's postal service to the loss of mail, "savage sorting" and other illegal operations, the cancellation of 116 Express Company's operating license. Last October, China Southern Airlines (Southern Airlines Co.) After a flight landed, a parcel with a windproof match burst into flames. China's state media reported that the aircraft also found two other shipments of two prohibited items. Hefei Airport police and state media said authorities seized a number of shells last November, and a courier company tried to ship the shells through civil aviation.

China ranked 26th in the logistics infrastructure rankings released last year by the World Bank, trailing five places behind South Korea, just ahead of Turkey. The number one was Singapore, and the US ranked Nineth.

Logistics experts say China lacks the complex warehouses needed for large volumes of goods to flow. Many Chinese cities, they say, are reluctant to sell their land to logistics companies or e-commerce companies to build warehouses because they generate less revenue than shopping malls or office buildings.

Zhongtong Express, a logistics company, is located in a warehouse in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, where workers recently handled parcels with their bare hands and sometimes piled piles of parcels. The cold wind blew in from the Open dock and warehouse doors, and the workers wore a bloated coat to ward off the cold. Umena, the manager, said the rapid growth of the business exceeded the processing capacity of the warehouse. She said the company plans to move to a bigger place soon.

How to retain staff is a challenge. Umena says there aren't enough graduates to attract them. Many jobs are complex, such as the increase or decrease in the number of parcels entering North China. But she says most well-educated people are unwilling to do this kind of work.

Companies are spending more to make up for the shortage of talent. Beijing Jing Dong century trading company has been expanding its logistics system since 2009. Mr. Li, who has recently been promoted from the post of Courier, is working in Beijing east. The company employs about 10,000 couriers and 5,000 warehouse administrators, but does not disclose its expenses. Liu, chief executive of Jingdong, has complained about the poor logistics management in China.

Most of the expansion of industry is reflected in the increase of front-line staff. In major cities in China, a large number of electric cars, motorcycles and electric carts appear on the streets every day.

In 2009, Xu Jongliang, 30, arrived in Beijing from the Chinese coastal city of Hangzhou, riding an electric car to send Express, a monthly salary of only slightly more than 160 dollars.

Since then, he has traded four companies, eventually becoming a customer service representative of a distribution center outside Beijing, with a big increase in revenue. "I put my energy and time in return," he said. It's very pleasing.

Xu Jongliang has more than 100 friends from Zhejiang who are now couriers in Beijing. To take advantage of its proximity to Alibaba, the eastern province of China has seen many of China's biggest logistics companies. Although many people have been promoted, some people are still walking through the streets of China in the rain and snow. "Many people find this job very hard," he said. Indeed, it is.

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