What does the post office do?

The delivery of all kinds of mail (letters or articles) is managed or directly operated by the state. The nature of the Ministry of Communications is to manage and deliver all kinds of mails, with the purpose of communicating politics, trade and people.

Postal service is a productive force. In ancient times, postal service was a post station. It set up a post station for the ancient government of China, and used horses, cars and boats to transmit official documents and military information. It can be traced back to 3000 years ago and is the earliest postal prototype in the world. 1On March 20th, 896, Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty memorialized Zhu Pi, officially approved the establishment of the General Post Office of Qing Dynasty, and China Modern Post was born.

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China Post has experienced semi-feudal and semi-colonial post 1840 since the Opium War, Chunghwa Post during the Republic of China, People's Post during the Revolutionary War in China, Post that has contributed to the development of people's posts and telecommunications and national economy since the founding of New China, Post that has been reformed to meet the needs of national economic development in the new period, and Post that is closely related to the development of people's livelihood in the future!

In the early days of the founding of New China, the postal communication network in China was poor, with few outlets and outdated equipment. By the end of 1949, there were only 26,328 post offices in China (except Tibet and Taiwan Province Province), with an average service area of 364.6 square kilometers and an average service population of 2 1000.

There are only a few businesses, such as letters, parcels and money orders. The average number of letters per person is only 1. 1. The total postal business in the whole year was 654.38+0.35 billion yuan, and the postal business income was 62.084 million yuan.

Since the founding of New China, especially since the implementation of reform and opening up, China Post has developed rapidly and healthily, with its postal network extending in all directions, covering the whole country and connecting with the world, and its comprehensive strength has been continuously enhanced, and it has gradually embarked on a postal development road with China characteristics.

Mainly manifested in: the communication ability has been significantly enhanced, the level of technical equipment has been significantly improved, the business operation has achieved remarkable results, the service level has been continuously improved, and foreign cooperation and exchanges have been increasingly enhanced. Up to now, China has basically formed a modern postal network with comprehensive utilization of aviation, railways and highways, connecting urban and rural areas, covering the whole country and reaching the world.

It has truly realized Premier Zhou Enlai's expectation of "connecting Wan Li through postal services and blood ties". The first sentence of "the State Council Postal System Reform Plan" points out: "Postal industry is an important social public utility of the country, and postal network is an important communication infrastructure of the country". This orientation defines the public service attribute of the postal industry.

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