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October 8, 2021 

Delivery services in China's rural areas recorded a solid expansion in the first eight months of this year, official data showed.

Between January and August, the delivery industry handled more than 28 billion parcels in rural areas, a jump of more than 30 percent from a year earlier, according to the latest data issued by the State Post Bureau in the first half of September.

The parcels included farm produce bound for the urban market and industrial products to be sold in rural areas. These products were valued at 1.4 trillion yuan ($217 billion).

At present, the rural market has become the new growth point of the express delivery industry, as one-third of more than 300 million parcels handled per day were in rural areas, said the bureau.

(Sources: China Report)