China Post

China Post Group Corporation
中国邮政集团公司

Type	state-owned enterprise
Industry	Courier
Founded	1997
Founder	Government of China
Headquarters	Jia8, Beilishi Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Area served	Mainland China
Key people	Ma Junsheng, Director-General As of 31 October 2008[update]
Services	Letter post, parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding, third-party logistics, deposit accounts
Revenue	US$ 28.093 billion (2011)
Net income	US$ 1.306 billion (2011)
Owner	People's Republic of China
Number of employees	860,200 (2011)
Parent	State Council via the Ministry of Finance
Subsidiaries	Airlines Bank Philatelic Corporation Post Mart
Website	www.chinapost.com.cn

China Post, full name China Post Group Corporation, is the state-owned enterprise operating the official postal service of China, which provides the service in mainland China, excluding its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau, which have their own postal service independent to the mainland's. The Corporation officially shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau which regulates the national postal industry theoretically including the Corporation.

The postal service in China can be dated back to the Shang Dynasty. The Customs Post Office of the Qing Empire was established in 1878 by Robert Hart at the suggestion of the foreign powers, with branch offices in five major trading cities. On 20 March 1896, the Customs Post Office became the Great Qing Post, which in 1911 became independent of the customs service. The Great Qing Post became the Chunghwa Post in 1912. Chunghwa postal service had signed a contract with the China Airways Federal group in 1929 to transport airmail on the Shanghai-Hankow, Nanjing-Beijing, and Hankow-Guangzhou routes. Chunghwa Post had functioned as the main postal service provider of Mainland China until 1949.

The current postal service of People's Republic of China was established in 1949. It replaced the Chunghwa Post in mainland China in 1949, as well as in the Universal Postal Union in 1972. It was formerly administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. China Post is directly supervised by the State Post Bureau of the PRC which has overall responsibility for regulating postal service in China. The State Post Bureau is an agency reporting to the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China.