Express delivery enterprises set green targets

Cainiao Network Technology Co Ltd, the logistics affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, has announced plans to make the nation's delivery services "green" by 2020.

It said that all of its delivery sheets, part of the 40 billion packages being used in China annually, would be made from renewable materials within the next three years, and it would promote the use of a paperless, electronic system for logging deliveries.

Cainiao also plans to lower its costs by reducing the distances its couriers travel by up to 30 percent through the use of real-time monitoring and algorithm-backed analysis.