Jieyang, a city in eastern Guangdong province, has registered robust growth of logistics and e-commerce in recent years, promoting the high-quality development of the city. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Jieyang's logistics and e-commerce sector generated 86.25 billion yuan ($12.9 billion) in output last year, up 8.79 percent year-on-year. The city's express delivery volume hit 5.29 billion parcels, a rise of nearly 20 percent. In the first four months of this year, the sector reached 30.81 billion yuan, up 18.6 percent.
The figures reflect a concentration of logistics activity unusual even by Guangdong province standards. Junpu village alone has gathered more than 200 physical wholesale stores and nearly 4,000 online shops, forming a dense domestic e-commerce cluster within a single community.
Jieyang, a city in eastern Guangdong province, has registered robust growth of logistics and e-commerce in recent years, promoting the high-quality development of the city. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
In Xinheng town, the Phase-I site of Yunda Jieyang (East Guangdong) E-commerce Industrial Park, which opened in 2021, spans roughly five city blocks and operates more than 40 franchise stations across Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shantou, and Meizhou, running over 70 long-haul freight routes with 300 vehicles.
"With a daily throughput of more than one million parcels, the park mainly serves the residents in Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shantou, and Meizhou," said He Hao, director of the park's sorting center. The park currently generates up to 1,000 local jobs, he said.
A Phase-II expansion covering roughly four city blocks broke ground in March and is scheduled to open before year-end, adding warehousing, cold-chain and international logistics capacity to the existing operation, He said.
