Analysis On The Development Trends Of Chinese Postal Industry In The New Situation

Since the twenty-first century, along with the wave of information technology rapidly sweeping across the world, information technology infiltrates into every corner of the world, impacts every field of the economic society. At the same time, the "modern services economy" age is coming. Tertiary industry is flourishing, which exerts wide and far-reaching impact upon the traditional industry and corporations.As the traditional communication service industry, the postal industry is facing the requirements of transformation from traditional to modernization. On a world wide scale, the trends of postal industry reformation is flourishing in each country. The postal corporations in each country have set enterprise apart from government gradually, pressed ahead corporatisation and demutualization and paid more attention to the enterprise information construction. In domestic, the government makes great efforts to transform the economic growth mode and promote industrial transformation and upgrading. Judging from this, the international background of global informationization and postal structural reformation, and the requirements of economic transformation bring the new situation of Chinese postal industry development. In 2007, the Chinese Post achieved the enterprise apart from government and basically achieved the modern corporation system reformation. In April,2009, new postal law was published. It defined the postal business in the form of postal service by the first time which embodies the property of postal service industry. How to define modern postal industry with the modern service industry's attribute property? How is current phase of the development of Chinese modern postal industry? Does China have the necessary condition of the transformation from traditional postal industry to modern postal industry? And how are the trends of the Chinese postal industry? This paper will analyze and research the questions mentioned above.The innovations of this paper consists two parts.First is defining the modern postal industry in the modern service category, which is the theory supplement of the definition of modern postal industry. Second is carving out the phases of modern postal industry development with phasing theoretical model, and examining the situation of the Chinese modern postal industry development which gets the conclusion that it is still in its infancy, to a certain extent, pointing out the direction of developing Chinese modern postal industry to a higher stage.