The Supervision and Inspection and Quality Control of the Rural Postal Communication—The Post and Telecommunications Office of Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province

Situated in the north-western part of Heilongjiang Province, Keshan County, with a population of 470, 000, covers an area of 2, 760square kilometres. The county now has 17 official rural postal establishments staffed with 104 employees, including 5 managerialpersonnel. Rural communication is an important integral part of the entire postal communication network. The quality of rural postalcommunication plays a significant role in the whole course of postal communication. Therefore, our county office has always been keeping     

THE ORGANIZATION OF POSTAL TRANSPORT AND THE FORMS OF COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTING MAILS IN THE RURAL AREAS

Situated in the northern part of Zhejiang Province,Huzhou City covers an area of 1,522 square kilometresand has a population of 960,000.The rural areasaccount for 1,512.4 square kilometres and are inhabitedby 830,000 people.In the rural areas there are 8 towns,46 townships,748 administrative villages and 4,650natural villages.In terms of topography,hills accountfor 30 percent;water,10 percent;and farmland,60percent.The western part of Huzhou is mainly hilly lan(?)while the eastern part is a vast plain with a web of riversand streams.The 23 major rivers are ideal for water     

A Survey of the Technical Conditions of the Post in China

CHINA is a developingcountry and as such,postal communication inChina is weak in foundation inits technicality and facilities.With the development ofcommodity economy in rec-ent years,volumes of mailshave been fast inceasing andin order to meet the growingdemand for postal service,efforts are being redoubled fortechnical reforms and levels inpostal technology and facil-ities are being raised steadily.Construction of key postal centers.Great efforts have been madc inrecent years in building and     

THE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF POSTAL COMMUNICATION IN THE RURAL AREAS

Located on the bank of the Yalu River in the southeast of Jilin Province,northeast China,Ji'an County covers anarea of 3,217 square kilometres and has a population of 210,000.The Post and Telecommunications Office of Ji'an County consists of 7 managerial sections(offices),6 postaloperation teams,15 rural branch offices and 2 rural secondary offices.There arc 294 staff in the post andtelecommunications office,among them,115 employees work for postal operation.The Post and Telecommunications Office of Ji'an County provides all kinds of domestic and international postand telecommunications service and conducts some mail exchanges with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.In 1984,the office's volume of mail exchanges was:1,970,000 letter post items,60,000 parcels,70,000 money orders and     

The organization and management of Postal Services in Rural Districts

The County is under the level of province in China.The postal communication below the county-town leveldirectly serves agriculture and commodity production in rural areas and the 800 million farming population in thecountryside.Rural postal communication is organized and managed by the county post and telecommunications office(simplified as county office hereinafter),which is the grass-roots unit of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunicationsas well as an important link in the national network of postal communication.The county office is the administrativeorgan of postal and telecommunications service in the county and is the centre of the network in that county.     

THE GREEN MESSENGERS IN RAILWAY TRUNK LINE—The No.15 postal escort group in Shanghai-Urumqi trunk line

Shanghai-Urumqi trunk line is one of thelongest railway trunk lines in our country,passing six provinces and one municipality witha total distance of 4,079 kilometres.The rail-way postal carriage in this line mainly has thetask of delivering,sorting and transportingmails,newspapers and magazines.It passes 71postal stations and takes 8 days and nights toand fro.Year in and year out,the green mes-sengers in the postal carriage have swiftlydelivered mails and newspapers for the Partyand the people.     

For the Sake of People's Convenience

My name is Zhao Jixiang.I have beenworking as a rural courier in Liaoning Pro-vince for eleven years.I love my job verymuch and always feel happy to have thechance to serve the people in mountainousareas.Surmounting all kinds of difficulties inthe past eleven years,I have trekked morethan 180,000 kilometres and made 583,500 de-liveries of mails,918,000 copies of newspapers,no mistakes have ever occurred since the yearof 1973.Though I have only made some ac-complishments,I have been much honoured by     

Upgrading the Quality of Delivery Service through Better Organization and Management

Located on the bank of theSonghua River,the city of Jilinis a picturesque and medium-sized chemical and power in-dustrial city in northeast China,with a population of one million.Jilin Posts and Telecommun-ication Office (referred to as PTOffice for short) is a hub officedealing with both internationaland domestic postal and telecom-munication services in this area.The average daily volume of de-livered mail is 33,000 pieces,thatof newspapers and periodicals     

“Yellow Cap”Pillar Boxes in The Streets of Beijing for Speeding up Delivery

In order to meet the social needs,to im-prove the postal service and to speed up themail delivery,beginning from August 10,1983a new kind of pillar boxes were installed bythe Beijing Post Office in the city's major busi-ness centres,vital communication lines,in theresidential areas and in the front of the gov-ernment departments.And they are painted inyellow at top for identification from the commongreen-coloured pillar boxes and are called     

Beijing Postal Service Yesterday and Today——In Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Beijing Post Office

The postal service in Beijing has been in operation for90 years since post made its debut in China on Feb.22,1897.Reviewing its history,one can trace it toremote antiquity.As early as the Spring and AutumnPeriod,the courier postal service had found its way inthe areas of Beijing.In the Yuan Dynasty,courierpostal organizations mushroomed on large scale.In     

普遍服务政策有待落到实处

At present it is unbalanced in the development of telecom industry in China. This phenomenon is mainly reflected between the development of city and rural area, eastern area and middle area, eastern area and western area. In the aspect of population, 64% people live in rural area. However, it is 35.3% in the aspect of telephone. If seeing the telephone distribution in different areas in China, we can find that Jt Js 50.4% in eastern area, 29.5% in middle area and 20.1% in western area. All those make implementation of universal service providing more important. Especially after introducing the competitive mechanism into telecom industry field, new challenges appear in the implementation of universal service providing.     

May Postal Link Be Established Sooner between the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits

I used to be a postal worker in old Chinaand a member of the standing committee ofAll-China Postal Trade Union.In New China,I first became the Minister of Posts and Tele-communications and then a Vice-Chairmanof All-China Federation of Trade Unions.Idevoted myself to the service of the postalworkers and clerks for decades.As an oldtimer in the postal service I cannot but feelextremely distressed over the absence of thepostal link which has prevented the Chineseon both sides of the Straits from exchangingkindred sentiments for more than thirtyyears.Last year,Chairman Ye Jianying of     

METHODS ON ORGANIZING RURAL DELIVERY ROUTES

Dongtai County is located in the central part ofJiangsu Province,eastern China,bordering on theHuang Hai(Yellow Sea)to the east.It has an area of2.308 square kilometres,one quarter of which is coveredby a network of rivers and the rest is plain.The countyhas 29 townships,722 village committees,and 4,600rural neighbourhoods with a total population of 1.11million.     

The Organization and Management of Urban Postal Services in China

Except Taiwan Province,there are now 236 large and medium-sized cities in China with a totalpopulation of 144.67 million.Most of them are the centers of politics,economy,transportation,scienceand culture in the provinces and autonomous regions or certain regions of the country.The urbanposts serve directly for the government departments,factories,enterprises,scientific and cultural or-gans as well as the urbanites.The post offices in city are generally situated in the hub of the postalnetwork of provinces,autonomous regions and districts,playing a principal part in carrying out thenational postal policy of speed,accuracy,safety and convenience     

SHENZHEN POST IN SWIFT DEVELOPMENT

SHENZHEN once a remotesmall town has devel-oped into a sizable modernopen city in only a few years. Itis the first special economiczone in our country, and awindow of the spirit andmaterial civilization construc-tion of our nation. The city hasan area of 327.5 squarekilometres of which 48 square     

Handling In-service Education Well, Enhancing the Quality of Rural Postal Staff Members PT Office of Guangji County, Hubei Province

Guangji County is located in the east part of Hubei Province, on the north bank of Changjiang(Yangtze)River. PT office ofGuangji County has 17 rural sub-offices. The rural post part constituted 65％ of the total volume of mails、59％ of total postalrevenue. and 73％ of the total postal staff members of the county office. After the founding of our republic, we had paid very close attention to the in-service education of the staff, the quality of the     

A SWAN-GOOSE IN THE DEPTH OF FORESTS——Story of a postman

Tianshui county is located in a region insouth.Shaanxi Province where dense forests coverrange upon range of high mountains;streams andrivers run in deep valleys and many wild animals,especially bears and snakes inhabit.Mr.MaJunde of Hui Nationality (a minority nationalityof China) is one of the rural postmen.His dailycircuit covers more than 100 li (50 kilometres).Aman of over 40,he has been working for ruraldelivery for 18 years:during which time hecovered more than 200,000 kilometres and deliver-ed nearly 500,000 postal items,including letters,newspapers,periodicals and other mail matters     

Organizations and Management of Rural Postal Service

The postal service below the level of thecounty seat is defined as rural postal servicewhich runs for the benefit of the agriculturalproduction and serves the eight hundred millionpeasants directly. It is organized and controlled     

The First Postal Law of New China

The postal law—first written law in the sector ofposts and telecommunications since founding of thePeople's Republic of China—has been put intoimplementation since January 1,1987.Thepromulgation of the postal law ends the status of nothaving a perfect legal system for our postalcommunications and will bring about a greatadvance in our socialist postal business along a legaltrack.     

FOSTER ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT, ENHANCE QUALITY IN COMMUNICATION——Address by Director Liu Tienrui of General Post Administration at the National Postal Work Convention (Abstracted)

The report by Vice-Minister Zhu Gaofeng is an important document to guide us in the direction of development ofthe postal service and in determining managerial policies, so as to bring forth a new aspect of the service. It is acomprehensive and deepgoing discussion which is based on the experience of a number of years and the spirit of thedecisions made by the Party Congress last year.