Briefly

Delivery industry to get green hue

China will promote the green development of the postal and courier industry this year with the wider application of recyclable express delivery packaging and new energy vehicles, in a bid to reduce pollution and carbon emissions, postal authorities said. The country will roll out policies to standardize packaging operations, reduce over-packaging, and encourage the recycling of packaging boxes, Ma Junsheng, head of the State Post Bureau, said at the bureau's annual work conference. Some 10 million recyclable packing boxes will be used next year, and 700 million corrugated boxes will be reused, according to the conference. The industry will use more new-energy and clean-energy vehicles and explore the construction of green distribution centers, he said.

Shenzhen Port puts up good show in 2021

The annual container throughput of Shenzhen Port in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province totaled 28.77 million twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs in 2021, up 8.4 percent year-on-year, a record high, local authorities said. In 2021, the number of international liner routes linking the port reached 302, up from 241 in 2020, according to the city's transport bureau. Authorities are also pushing forward new projects in the port. A smart terminal at the Nanshan harbor area was put into operation in June 2021, and the construction of a container terminal affiliated to the Yantian harbor area started on Dec 8, 2021. Currently, Shenzhen Port can harbor 12 200,000-ton container vessels, the bureau said.

JD helps promote e-CNY online

Chinese e-commerce giant JD announced on Friday it now enables third-party vendors to access China's digital renminbi, or the e-CNY, further enriching the application scenarios of the digital currency in JD's ecosystem. JD Technology, the fintech arm of JD, has formed a partnership with the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, in a bid to jointly promote mobile function innovation of the digital renminbi and online-and-offline scenario application.

Xinhua - China Daily