Study On The Development Of Express Industry In Inner Mongolia

As a newly-emerging industry, the express service has always been the focus of people's concern all this time. In recent years, express industry in China is experiencing a trend of mushrooming with the development of national economy, especially the flourishing of electronic commerce. As a result, a variety of express services have entered the market in succession, which are competing for their respective development sharing the Chinese market, a giant cake for express industry. Presently, a kind of diversified market competition among the state-owned services, private ones and foreign-invested ones has been established, which stand like the three legs of a tripod. And a tendency of competitive development is becoming clear for all participants. But unfortunately, ascription of the express industry has not been determined within the industry itself and no conclusion concerning the problem has been reached yet. With the issuance of the newly amended Postal Law of the People's Republic of China on April 24 of 2009, an authoritative resolution prescribed in the law was made, which states that the express industry is a part of postal industry. Following the further enforcement of the new Postal Law, the laws, policies, market environment, which the express industry is encountered with, are undergoing profound changes. Under such new circumstances, a lot of questions deserve thorough consideration such as what is the present express industry in Inner Mongolia is like, what challenges and opportunities are ahead, how could the postal administrative authorities create better competitive environment by establishing policies, specifying and guiding and how should the express enterprises boost their own competitiveness to strengthen and expand the express industry in Inner Mongolia. The paper is arranged in the pattern of problem—analysis—solution. It begins with the definition of express industry, the present situations and characteristics of our national express industry and the interior and exterior elements influencing the development of express industry in Inner Mongolia. Employing the methods of empirical analysis, comparative analysis and SWOT analysis, the paper analyzes the exterior factors which affect the development of express industry in Inner Mongolia according to the current conditions of express industry in Inner Mongolia, achievements gained and the existing limitations, on which this paper lays emphasis. And it further discusses the possible measures and policies to be made from the standpoint of the governmental administrative department. The creative points of this paper may include the following points:first, the exterior and interior factor affecting the development of express industry in Inner Mongolia is analyzed objectively; second, the current conditions of express industry in Inner Mongolia, achievement gained, existing limitations and the factors affecting the development of express industry in Inner Mongolia are analyzed in comparison; third, the express enterprises of different capital types in Inner Mongolia are respectively undergoing SWOT analysis; fourth, policies and measures for developing the express industry in Inner Mongolia are put forward. And the limitations of this paper are described as the following:first, the writer's knowledge of data could be more all-round. Due to the limitation of statistical operation for express industry, the statistics in this paper are all gathered by the writer. With less all-round statistics, analysis is adversely affected; second, owing to an inadequate knowledge of the developing trends and policies of national express industry and the express industry in Inner Mongolia, more solutions on the macro level are provided than those on the micro level. Further strengthening of research work is needed to enrich elementary data so that the paper would be all-round.