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In the early years of the Republic of China (ROC), Shanghai was the center of China's postal network. In 1914, China joined the Universal Postal Union, and Shanghai was designated as the exchange for international mail. By the early 1920s, the previous premises of the postal administration was no longer adequate, and land was acquired on the ...
China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, [4] is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated as a state-owned enterprise . China Post shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau , which regulates the national postal industry.
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Putuo District (Chinese: 普陀区; pinyin: Pǔtuó Qū; Shanghainese: phu 2 du 1 chiu 1) is a municipal district of Shanghai Municipality, People's Republic of China. [1] It covers an area of 54.83 km 2 (21.17 sq mi).
The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post, the postal service of China. [1] [2] [3] The agency used to report to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is now under the administration of the Ministry of Transport. [4] The bureau is headed by the Director-General. The current Director-General is Ma ...
China Post uses a six-digit all-numerical system with four tiers: the first tier, composed of the first two digits, show the province, province-equivalent municipality, or autonomous region; the second tier, composed of the third digit, shows the postal zone within the province, municipality or autonomous region; the fourth digit serves as the ...
Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
Postal romanization [1] was a system of transliterating place names in China developed by postal authorities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For many cities, the corresponding postal romanization was the most common English-language form of the city's name from the 1890s until the 1980s, when postal romanization was replaced by pinyin, but the system remained in place on Taiwan ...