In today’s globalized business wave, the express delivery industry is an important pillar of cross-border e-commerce overseas logistics, and its development trend has attracted much attention.
On June 16, at the 2026 Langfang Economic and Trade Fair, the China Express Delivery Association released and in-depth interpretation of the 2026 China Express Industry International Development Index (Langfang Index). This is the third consecutive year that the Association has released this index in Langfang.
As my country’s first comprehensive index targeting the internationalization level of the express delivery field, the Langfang Index can objectively reflect the comprehensive competitiveness and influence of China’s express delivery industry and accurately position the international development level of the industry.
The index shows that Hebei Province’s cross-border express delivery business performed well in 2025. The annual international express business volume was nearly 6 million pieces, a year-on-year increase of 21.7%, and the growth rate was 12.9 percentage points higher than the national average.
Among them, Langfang international business volume increased by 31.16% year-on-year, and Shijiazhuang international business volume increased by 21.58% year-on-year, both achieving historic breakthroughs.
Experts attending the meeting believed that this eye-catching data fully confirmed the continuous improvement of Hebei’s international mailing service capabilities.
In fact, Hebei’s express delivery industry has continued to maintain rapid growth in recent years.
As early as 2024, its express delivery business volume surpassed Shandong for the first time, becoming the fourth largest express delivery province in the country after Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu.
This strong momentum will be continued in 2025, surpassing the previous year’s total 67 days in advance, and historically breaking through the 10 billion mark, becoming the fourth province in the country with an annual express delivery business volume exceeding 10 billion.
However, in the face of achievements, the development of Hebei’s express delivery industry also has problems of imbalance and insufficiency, and the internationalization and intelligence of the express delivery industry still need to be improved.
Currently, the express delivery industry is in a critical stage of transformation from scale expansion to quality and efficiency. How to achieve high-quality development of the express delivery industry in Hebei Province has become an urgent problem to be solved.
Qin Lei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chief Brand Officer of STO Express, believes that the International Development Index of China’s express delivery industry (Langfang Index) has multiple values. It can not only provide data support for government departments to improve international shipping policies and optimize cross-border logistics layout, but also provide scientific guidance for express delivery companies’ global layout and cross-border e-commerce to expand overseas markets.
The rapid growth of Hebei’s express delivery cross-border business has allowed express delivery companies to see the huge potential and development opportunities of express delivery “going overseas”, and will also help accelerate the development of Hebei’s international delivery network.
Langfang is located in the core area of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, with one-hour access to three major aviation hubs and Tianjin Port. It has unique advantages in express delivery “out to sea”.
STO Express has seized this regional development opportunity and deployed its northern headquarters base and North China Intelligent Transshipment Center in Langfang, creating a leading modern intelligent transshipment hub in the entire network and building the core of the development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
With the Langfang North China Transshipment Center as the core hub, STO has built a multi-node transshipment network in Hebei, forming an express hub matrix with one core leading, multiple points of support, and global linkage, laying a solid foundation for future express delivery to “go overseas”.
Qin Lei suggested that Hebei should accelerate the development of a dense sea, land, air, and rail multimodal transport network and build an efficient and smooth cross-border logistics network.
At the same time, express delivery companies are guided to take measures such as expanding channels, building brands, and improving informatization levels to enhance service capabilities.
Mao Wei, deputy general manager of China Postal Express Logistics Co., Ltd., suggested using technology to empower the industry, intelligently upgrade the entire process and every link, and improve terminal smart networks in counties and townships to make express delivery faster, more economical, and more stable.
Currently, China Post has put 3,622 unmanned vehicles into use across the country, covering 248 cities and delivering more than 26 million pieces of mail.
In many cities in Hebei, unmanned vehicles can also be seen delivering express delivery.
In terms of drone applications, China Post has focused on deploying multiple scenarios and exploring low-altitude logistics applications. It has opened 22 pilot routes. In places with inconvenient transportation such as mountainous areas and islands, drone mail routes have effectively improved terminal delivery timeliness and reduced operating costs.
Experts attending the meeting agreed that Hebei should focus on deepening the integration of “artificial intelligence + postal express delivery” and promote technological applications such as intelligent sorting, intelligent cloud warehouses, intelligent security inspection, and intelligent delivery.
At the same time, we will accelerate the improvement of the international delivery network, continue to optimize the international logistics organization model, strengthen information coordination, resource coordination and business coordination with cross-border e-commerce, Made in China, and Made in Hebei, contribute to the safe and smooth flow of the international industrial chain and supply chain, and improve the high-quality development level of the industry.
