Moving on with the times

China Post, the country's postal backbone, is trying out a new approach - post offices with themes - to keep up with change. Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Xing Yi report in Beijing Satarupa

With the ongoing global slide in paper mail, China Post, the country's postal backbone is increasingly diversifying its business to stay relevant.

Among the state company's new forays is the "theme" post office that seeks to both reflect changes across China's technology-driven societies and enhance the operation's commercial prospects. Nearly 300 post offices on the Chinese mainland have been recently refashioned from a total of more than 53,000, toward that end.