The limitation of the business scope of the foreign-funded enterprises in the new postal law appears to be like a mans back

After the implementation of the new "postal law", the Chinese postal industry has been unwilling to the "outside" of the Foreign Express giants have finally won a direct dialogue with the industry's highest regulatory body-the national Postal Service channel directly.

A few days ago, the reporter learned that the National Post Office convened four express to carry out a discussion, is the first direct communication between the two, this may also mean to some extent, has been "trapped" foreign express ushered in the "untie" signal.

First Direct communication

"We are really prepared to set up a special department to communicate with foreign express companies and governments in China," he said. "China Express Association, a person March 2 told the Chinese times," reporters, "the state post office in with several foreign express companies to communicate after the need to strengthen exchanges between each other, the establishment of regular communication system. ”

Recently, the National Post Office convened a joint Parcel Service company (hereinafter referred to as UPS), the World Company (hereinafter referred to as TNT), Sinotrans (hereinafter referred to as DHL) and FedEx (hereinafter referred to as FedEx) These four companies in China to carry out different degrees of business of foreign Express enterprises to conduct a symposium, Deputy director of the State Post Office, the Department of Policy and Law, market Supervision Department, Personnel Division and other related departments and China Express Association Wang Yizhi Representative Qi to the meeting.

According to China Express Association, Deputy Secretary-General Shaozhonglin revealed: "Four Express" has been through a "Asia-Pacific Express Business Forum," the organization and many government departments to communicate, they certainly hope that "there is a more convenient channel of communication." "Asia-Pacific Express Business Forum" in the last year, the new "postal law" before the introduction of a multi-party drum, intended to "create a conducive to the healthy development of China's express industry open and fair competition environment."

And last year in the new "postal law" before and after the implementation of the bill clearly stipulates that "foreign investors can not invest in the domestic express business letter" triggered a number of enterprises and even the industry organizations have a strong response to a series of questions whether the meeting also conducted a frank communication, the participating enterprises are not willing to more

"The ability to build such a communication channel should be a very good start," he said. "As for more specific content, it will need to be addressed in future exchanges," said one person in the express business who understands the symposium's content. ”

Another person who works for one of the "Big Four Express" is more direct, he said: "The market must be more open and better, everyone in a fair market environment competition, but now the situation is that the competent authorities are willing to actively communicate with the good, if this time to put forward some requests is not very inappropriate?" ”

"Or step by step, after all, such a large market capacity needs to digest, there are always opportunities." "said the former person.

According to the data released by the National Post Office of the national scale of more than express business volume completed 170 million, an increase of 55.5% per cent, business income completed 4.48 billion yuan, an increase of 47.1%.

Four express trapped "outside"

Although after joining the WTO, postal industry is one of the earliest open to foreign investment in the industry, and the four major express delivery giants have been in China for more than 20 years, but for a long time in some areas of the "ban" and a number of policy uncertainties also make its business focus is different.

March 3, DHL announced that it will invest 320 million yuan in Hong Kong to build a multi-purpose facilities to meet the consumer products, fashion and High-tech industry customers in the DHL supply chain customized services growing demand. This is also the transformation of DHL's regional portal since 2008, when it invested 110 million dollars in the expansion of the Hong Kong hub.

Similarly, UPS, which currently has two transshipment centers in China, is also looking at intercontinental shipments of goods, according to data revealed by UPS China and Asia Pacific Senior vice President Li Songjiang in February, only in the fourth quarter of 2009, UPS shipments from China to Europe increased by more than 15%, Export volumes across the Asia-Pacific region grew by about 10% over the same period last year.

TNT has long been the focus of its business development in China on road freight.

But for FedEx, which has been strengthening the expansion of China's domestic business in recent years, the new postal law restricts the scope of operation of foreign-funded enterprises.

In order to develop the domestic express business, FedEx in the past two years has repeatedly cut prices, so that has been high on the "Foreign Express" in some delivery business charges or even lower than some local private companies, which also triggered the domestic enterprises on its "low-cost dumping", "vicious competition" conduct a mammoth crusade and complaints to the regulatory authorities. At the same time, FedEx also because of "illegal business letter Business" in 2008 by the Tianjin and Sichuan industry regulators issued a ticket to become the new "postal law" preheating phase of the "negative classic."

"FedEx in 2006 years spent 400 million dollars to buy back the net worth of only 200 million yuan in the field logistics, originally intended to take the opportunity to operate China business, but now there is a large block can not do, the blow is quite large." "The star is anxious the chairman Chen Ping thinks."

However, the FedEx Nuggets China market is still in the attempt to continue, last year, the FedEx has been the local "Low-cost Express" control of the online shopping market, and become the largest Consumer-to-consumer E-commerce trading platform Taobao partner.

"Foreign express enterprises in China's economic development has played an important role." "Government management encourages the support of all legitimate businesses," Wang Yizhi said. ”