The Influence To China Express Delivery Market Structure Development Caused By The Entry Of FDI

The full liberalization of China express industry has not only made considerable progress in the express industry, but also made great changes to the market structure. From the1980s to the1990s, China Post has almost monopolized the China express delivery market. Now the FDI has played a crucial role in the change to market share. Nationalized express delivery companies, private express delivery companies and foreign express delivery companies now occupy a certain market share. The paper focuses on the influence and impact to China express industry caused by foreign express delivery companies entering China express delivery market.First of all, the paper begins to analyze the evolutionary process and the ultimate trend of the market structure of China express industry based on the weak natural monopoly industry and contestable market theories. And then, the paper elaborates on the development of the express delivery market. At the same time, from three aspects, the paper analyzes the status of China express industry market structure. The three aspects are market concentration, competition and the barriers to entry. Followed, the paper applies Game theory methods to study the invest ways of foreign express delivery companies and the behaviors of them in China express delivery market. At last, in one hand, the paper analyzes the market behavior of China express delivery market based on the data and cases and the market performance by applying factor analysis method. In the other hand, the paper elaborate the development of the express market structure in China sine the full liberalization of China express industry based on the relationship and reciprocity among market structure, behavior and performance revealed by industrial organization SCP paradigm theory.Based on the above analysis, the conclusion of this paper is as following:the entry of foreign express delivery companies, to some extent, has improved the competitiveness of the China express delivery companies. In the same time, it also promotes the merger and reorganization of the express industry in China, which cause considerable development of the China express delivery market. Meanwhile market structure has constantly improved.