A staff member packages goods at a duty-free shop at Sun Moon Plaza in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, on Dec. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The postal industry in south China's Hainan Province saw its business revenue rise 7.56 percent year on year to 1.56 billion yuan in the first four months of this year, according to the Hainan Provincial Postal Administration.
The province's courier companies handled a total of 54.6616 million parcels in the January-April period, an increase of 21.23 percent. Their business revenue came in at 1.044 billion yuan, up 9.55 percent on year.
It is noted that Hainan's courier sector logged higher than national average growth in terms of both business volumn and revenue, but saw growth slow down from late March to early April due to COVID-19 influence.
Its courier business picked up quickly starting mid-April with the implementation of a slew of measures for stablizing industrial and supply chains.
Upsurge in sales of duty-free goods, as well as the high-yield of tropical fruits for winter and spring seasons from January to April, together with the put-in-use intelligent parcel sorting robots also contributed to the pick-up in growth. (Edited by Zhong Xinpei, Niu Huizhe with Xinhua Silk Road, niuhuizhe@xinhua.org)
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