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Express delivery segment expands

China's courier sector continued to expand in August, a monthly industry index showed on Monday. The China express delivery development index for August came in at 311, up 12.9 percent month-on-month, the State Post Bureau said in a statement. The sub-index for the development scale grew 4.7 percent from a year earlier, and it was estimated that some 9.6 billion pieces of parcels were delivered last month.

Jiangsu's NEV output sets record

The new energy vehicle or NEV output of East China's Jiangsu province hit a record high in the first seven months of this year, surpassing the total NEV output of the economic powerhouse last year, local authorities said. Jiangsu saw its NEV production increase 26 percent year-on-year to 797,000 from January to July, which included an output of 289,000 NEVs, a 1.8-fold increase year-on-year compared with the same period last year, according to the provincial department of industry and information technology.

Xinhua - China Daily