China express delivery sector handles 50 bln parcels in 2018

Faculty staff and students get their parcels at a makeshift collecting point in an indoor tennis court at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 13, 2018. China's express delivery sector handled 50.5 billion parcels in 2018, up 25.8 percent year on year, data from the State Post Bureau (SPB) showed. Gross business revenue of the sector increased 21.2 percent year on year to hit 601 billion yuan (about 88 billion U.S. dollars) last year, according to the SPB. (Xinhua/Li Bo)